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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Potential jurors are being questioned in the trial of a man accused of fatally shooting a soldier outside a military recruiting station in Arkansas.

MANCHESTER, Iowa The owner of an Iowa zoo is expected to recover from injuries suffered during a tiger attack.

WASHINGTON The Obama administration says President Barack Obama would veto the "cut, cap and balance" plan proposed by tea party-backed House Republicans if it lands on his desk.

DENVER A convicted murderer is suing the state of Colorado for saving his life after his heart stopped beating.

NEW ORLEANS Months before Sgt. Robert Gisevius was charged with plotting to cover up the shootings of unarmed residents on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina, he met a former colleague at a bar and shared his suspicion that someone was leaking information to federal investigators.

RALEIGH, N.C. A year after she was paralyzed in poolside horseplay at her bachelorette party, Rachelle Friedman knows one thing she would change about her life before the injury.

COLUMBUS, Ohio Opponents of Ohio's new collective bargaining law say they have enough signatures to get a repeal question on November's ballot.

COLUMBUS, Ohio Ohio officials are investigating allegations that some county Medicaid workers inappropriately advised men posing as Russian drug dealers on how to get government health care benefits.

WASHINGTON Memo to President Barack Obama and the debt negotiators: You can save $13 billion by fixing a glitch in the new health care law.

WASHINGTON The leader of the Senate says the chamber will meet every day - including weekends - until Congress sends President Barack Obama legislation to make sure the government doesn't default on its obligations.

MARTINSVILLE, Ind. A prosecutor says an 11-year-old Indiana boy accused of fatally shooting his 6-year-old brother won't be tried as an adult.

JACKSON, Miss. A police detective testified Monday that a white Mississippi teenager wasn't at the scene when a black man was killed by a pickup truck in what authorities have said was a hate crime.

MIAMI Tropical Storm Dora is gaining some muscle as it swirls in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. NASA's orbiting astronauts have detached a huge storage bin from the International Space Station. Now they're working to place it aboard Atlantis for the very last shuttle ride back to Earth.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. Authorities on Monday shut down a private preschool and elementary school in a Sacramento suburb after an investigation revealed multiple allegations of child molestation.

LOS ANGELES For those who say the weekend-long freeway closure dubbed "Carmageddon" was a non-event, Los Angeles County's transit agency has two words: You're welcome.

WASHINGTON Highlights of a Republican-written "cut, cap and balance" bill the House plans to consider Tuesday:

NEW YORK A cousin of admitted terrorist Najibullah Zazi publicly revealed for the first time Monday that he was in on Zazi's chilling 2009 plot to attack New York City subways with suicide bombers.

NEW YORK Relatives of Sept. 11 victims asked the FBI on Monday to brief them on its probe into allegations that News Corp. journalists sought to hack into terror victims' phones.

WASHINGTON The leader of the Senate says the chamber will meet every day - including weekends - until Congress sends President Barack Obama legislation to make sure the government doesn't default on its obligations.