
Oct 16 - By Gregg Bell, AP Sports Writer
Edgerrin James is likely to enter the top 10 on the NFL's career rushing list this weekend.

Oct 10 - By Sharon Cohen, AP National Writer
On one of his first days in America, Hussein Albayati visited the Statue of Liberty.

Sep 12 - By Laura Wides-Munoz, AP Hispanic Affairs Writer
Francisco Jose Hernandez points to the boarded windows in his secretary's third floor office. Days before, a drive-by shooter peppered the glass with bullets.

Aug 14 - By Matthew Lee, Associated Press Writer
They followed her every step of the way. From Kenya to Cape Verde, the personalities and policies of the last three American presidents — Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama — dogged Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton through an 11-day tour of Africa.

Aug 1 - By Tanalee Smith, Associated Press Writer
Two years ago, Ali Khosh Razaee bought his freedom. The price he paid was his brother.
Jun 23 - By Todd Pitman, Associated Press Writer
He moves across the sand-specked basketball court swathed in the glossy dark blue jersey of his old Japanese pro team, a keepsake from a career that propelled him around the world.
Jun 6 - By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Associated Press Writer
Two years ago, Candide Uwizeyimana could not speak a word of English. A survivor of the Rwandan genocide, she lost her family and later was separated from those who rescued her from an orphanage, fed and housed her and paid for her education.

May 9 - By Will Graves, AP Sports Writer
They weren't supposed to be here among the big shots and the sheik, the Hall of Famers and the million dollar sure-things.

May 8 - By Marco Sibaja, Associated Press Writer
The leaky canoe is taking on water fast as our two guides fight the river in a driving rain.
Apr 1 - By Pete Iacobelli, AP Sports Writer
Tim O'Neal watched carefully, head down, as his pitch from just off the green rolled perfectly into the cup on the ninth green at Tradition National Golf Course last month.
Mar 29 - By Walter Putnam, Associated Press Writer
Dr. Andrew Nguyen's only recourse after being unjustly imprisoned twice by authorities in his homeland of Vietnam was to flee in a rickety riverboat, along with 80 others so desperate to get out of the country that they were willing to risk death on the high seas.

Mar 16 - By Will Graves, AP Sports Writer
Andre McGee had a piece of pasta about halfway down his throat on Sunday night when the Louisville senior guard saw the familiar Cardinals logo flash across the television screen just seconds into the NCAA tournament selection show.

Feb 21 - By Sandy Cohen, AP Entertainment Writer
A group of security workers stand at attention as two black SUVs, each driven by armed guards, pull up to the artists' entrance to the Kodak Theatre. Inside are the Academy Awards' most famous guests.

Feb 13 - By Sandy Cohen, AP Entertainment Writer
Oscar No. 3453 missed his flight.

Jan 26 - By Don Babwin, Associated Press Writer
One of the biggest stars of this year's Academy Awards was born on Chicago's northwest side, brought into the world by Martin Vega and prepped for his big close-up by Eladio Gonzalez.

Dec 14 - By Juliana Barbassa, Associated Press Writer
Half a century ago, six men with no sailing experience climbed aboard an aging Chinese junk in Taiwan and survived a typhoon that nearly wrecked the little ship. But after sailing nearly 7,000 miles across the Pacific, they were greeted by cheering crowds as they sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge.

Nov 29 - By Anita Chang, Associated Press Writer
Nine-year-old Anna He stands quietly amid the chaos in her boarding school dorm on a Sunday night, a frenzy of little girls chattering in Chinese as they change the linens on rows of wooden beds.
Aug 9 - By Associated Press
A solo kayaker's 1,700-mile journey to promote prostate cancer awareness has wrapped up at a Manhattan pier.

Jul 9 - By NBC Nightly News
The idea of ancillary marketing for “Journey to the Center of the Earth” feels redundant — this movie is already its own video game and its own theme park attraction. And if you’re 12, that’s awesome. Adults, however, may find the movie somewhat rougher going.
Jun 9 - By Associated Press
It's going to be a long, bumpy ride from South Florida to Massachusetts for two brothers.
Apr 18 - By Associated Press
A dog that ran off during a road-trip rest stop apparently made her way nearly 80 miles across Nevada's high desert and two mountain ranges to return home a week later.

Apr 1 - By Janie McCauley, AP Sports Writer
The celebratory net around her neck, Candice Wiggins turns to coach Tara VanDerveer: "What happens next? I don't know what happens next."

Feb 7 - By Associated Press
A leatherback turtle has been tracked swimming from the coast of the Papua province in Indonesia to Oregon, researchers said, in what may be the longest trip for marine vertebrae between breeding and feeding sites.

Jan 26 - By Cheryl Wittenauer, Associated Press Writer
His back resting comfortably against her chest, Hector nestles his massive canine head into Leslie Nuccio's shoulder, high-fiving pit bull paws against human hands.

Jul 28 - By Donna Abu-Nasr, Associated Press Writer
The last time Ahmed al-Shayea was in the news, he was in the hospital at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, being treated for severe burns from the truck bomb he had driven into the Iraqi capital on Christmas Day, 2004.