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Gun battle at Fresno biker club kills 1, wounds 12

A "running gun battle" at a Central California motorcycle club's annual dance that left one man dead, a dozen others wounded, hundreds of partygoers scrambling for cover, and now investigators trying to determine what triggered it. As the first of more than 100 law enforcement officers arrived early Saturday morning, ...

  • Updated: 4:03 a.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013

Gov't shutdown enters 2nd week, no end in sight

The government shutdown entered its second week with no end in sight and ominous signs that the United States was closer to the first default in the nation's history as Speaker John Boehner ruled out any measure to boost borrowing authority without concessions from President Barack Obama. Washington will be ...

  • Updated: 3:43 a.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013

AP IMPACT: Tribes mishandle funds, go unpunished

American Indian tribes have been caught misappropriating tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, according to internal tribal audits and other documents. But federal authorities do little about it — due to a lack of oversight, resources or political will. The result? Poor tribes like the Northern Arapaho of Wyoming suffer. ...

  • Updated: 3:40 a.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013
FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2013, file photo National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators walk by the tail of the private jet, which crashed into a hangar at the Santa Monica Municipal Airport in California, as they await the arrival of a crane to access the plane. As a result of the Oct. 1 federal government partial shutdown almost all of the board’s 400 employees were furloughed, an NTSB spokeswoman said. Across America the government’s work is piling up, and it’s not just paperwork. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

Government's work stacking up a week into shutdown

Across America the government's work is piling up, and it's not just paperwork. It's old tires and red Solo cups littering a stretch of river in Nebraska. Food poisoning microbes awaiting analysis in Atlanta. The charred wreckage of a plane in California, preserved in case safety investigators return. And it's ...

  • Updated: 3:38 a.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013
ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, OCT. 6, 2013- This combination of Associated Press file photos from 2012-2013 shows from top left, a vegetable vendor counting rupees at a market in Allahabad, India, a shopper standing by a sale sign in London, a woman carrying bags with food in Barcelona, and a shopper browsing at a Sears store in Henderson, Nevada. An Associated Press analysis of households in the 10 biggest economies released on Oct. 6, 2013, shows that families continue to spend cautiously in the five years since the U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, triggering a global financial crisis. (AP Photo/File)

Families hoard cash 5 yrs after crisis

They speak different languages, live in countries rich and poor, face horrible job markets and healthy ones. When it comes to money, though, they act as one: They're holding tight to their cash, driven more by a fear of losing what they have than a desire to add to it. ...

  • Updated: 3:15 a.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013

BP trial to focus on scientists' spill estimates

A federal judge was set to begin hearing three weeks of testimony Monday about how much oil made it into the ocean during the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Experts for BP and the federal government will provide U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier with very different estimates when the ...

  • Updated: 2:47 a.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013
In this Oct. 1, 2013 photo, cows are herded into waiting trucks following an auction at the Oklahoma National Stockyard in Oklahoma City. Across rural America, farmers are feeling the effects of the federal government shutdown. During the shutdown, the USDA won't provide sales reports from Oklahoma livestock auctions that are used to help set prices on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, state Department of Agriculture employee Jack Carson said. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Shutdown spawns vacuum in farm market information

When Tim Peterson finished planting his 900 acres of winter wheat last week, the usually market-savvy Kansas farmer unexpectedly found himself struggling to make critical marketing decisions without being able to access to vital agricultural reports, casualties of the federal government shutdown. "We have no clue what is going on ...

  • Updated: 2:11 a.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013

NYC fraud trial to begin for 5 ex-Madoff employees

The longtime secretary of imprisoned financier Bernard Madoff and four other back-office subordinates of the Ponzi king go to trial Tuesday as the government for the first time shows a jury what it has collected in its five-year probe of one of history's biggest frauds. The trial in federal court ...

  • Updated: 1:25 a.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013

Oil falls toward $103 as US debt deadline nears

Oil prices declined Monday as a partial U.S. government shutdown entered a second week and a possible default on government debt approached. Benchmark crude for November delivery fell 51 cents to $103.33 a barrel at midday Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contact rose ...

  • Updated: 1:18 a.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013
FILE - In this May 7, 2013, file photo, Elizabeth Smart talks with a reporter before an interview in Park City, Utah. More than a decade after her kidnapping and rescue grabbed national headlines, Smart is publishing a memoir of her ordeal. The 308 page book, titled "My Story," is being released by St. Martin's Press on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Elizabeth Smart details kidnapping in new memoir

Minutes after 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was snatched from her bedroom in the dead of night, a police cruiser idled by along a neighborhood street as she was forced to the ground at knifepoint. "Move and I will kill you!" her captor hissed. It was one of several fleeting times Smart ...

  • Updated: 12:37 a.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013
Firefighters are battling a vegetation fire that spread after a large pile of mulch began burning Sunday morning, Oct. 6, 2013 at a nursery in the Baker Canyon area of Silverado, in Orange County, Calif., a fire captain said. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Stuart Palley) MAGS OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUT MANDATORY CREDIT

Marine base partially evacuates from wildfire

Crews built containment lines Sunday around a wind-driven wildfire that scorched nearly 4 square miles of dry brush and forced people to evacuate part of a Southern California military base. The blaze at the Marine Corps' Camp Pendleton was 20 percent contained as the fire danger subsided with calmer winds ...

  • Updated: 11:55 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013

Kerry: Capture of terror suspect in Libya legal

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday defended the capture of a terrorism suspect by American forces in Libya, saying complaints about the operation from Libya and others are unfounded. Kerry said the weekend seizure in Tripoli of the suspected al-Qaida operative Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai complied with U.S. law. ...

  • Updated: 11:52 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013
This combination of undated images released by the the New York City Police Department shows a man wanted for questioning in regards to an assault on Sept. 29, 2013 where dozens of bikers stopped a Range Rover SUV on a highway, attacked the vehicle, then chased the driver and pulled him from the car after he plowed over a motorcyclist while trying to escape. (AP Photo/New York City Police Department)

DA: Motorcyclist had key role in NYC SUV brawl

A motorcyclist accused of smashing a window and catalyzing a bloody encounter between a group of bikers and an SUV driver was arraigned Sunday on gang assault and other major charges, which his lawyer said were overblown. The fourth person arrested so far in a case held up as a ...

  • Updated: 11:04 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013
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Gunfight at Fresno biker club kills 1, wounds 12

Authorities Sunday were investigating what touched off a wild "running gun battle" inside and outside a Fresno motorcycle club's annual dance, leaving one man dead and a dozen others wounded. Shots were still being fired at 2 a.m. Saturday when the first of more than 100 law enforcement officers arrived ...

  • Updated: 9:32 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013
Todd Esquibel, left, Jim Dowty and Lyle Jacobs shovel snow to clear their driveway in Rapid City, S.D., Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. South Dakota emergency agencies are asking snowmobile operators in the Rapid City area to help find motorists stranded by an autumn storm. The National Weather Service says the storm dumped at least three and a half feet of wet, heavy snow in the Black Hills. Rapid City had 21 inches, but 31 inches was recorded just a mile southwest of the city. (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, Benjamin Brayfield)

Snowmelt turns Black Hills into soggy mess

Residents in the Black Hills were navigating through a sloppy mess Sunday after warmer temperatures began melting record-setting snowfall, leaving standing water on plowed roads rather than making its way through drainage systems. Law enforcement officials shifted their focus to recovery after having caught up with a backlog of emergency ...

  • Updated: 5:46 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013
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