18 hours ago - By Todd Lewan, AP National Writer
A steady, decade-long drop in teen offender recidivism rates here in Pierce County is not the result of reforms implemented in some other places — building smaller, homelike facilities, adding social workers and making therapists available 24-7. Complete Story...
7 minutes ago - By David Bauder, AP Television Writer
Court TV, R.I.P. The network that burst into public consciousness with the O.J. Simpson trial and other big-name courtroom dramas in the 1990s becomes part of television history Tuesday, renamed truTV to emphasize its prime-time action programming.
Dec 29 - By Todd Lewan, AP National Writer
At age 9, Korey Davis came home from school with gang writing on his arm. At 10, he jacked his first car. At 13, he and some buddies got guns, used them to relieve a man of his Jeep, and later, while trying to outrun a police helicopter, smacked their hot wheels into a fire hydrant.
Dec 28 - By Anick Jesdanun, AP Internet Writer
Your cell phone is a potential gold mine for marketers: It can reveal where you are, whom you call and even what music you like.
Dec 26 - By Jake Coyle, AP Entertainment Writer
In the space of this column, we like to make room for any manner of Internet bizarre, from allegedly sexually deviant operatic R&B; singers to chipmunks with gifts for the dramatic arts.
Dec 25 - By Fakhurradzie Gade, AP Writer
Survivors prayed at mosques and mass graves Wednesday to mark the third anniversary of the devastating Asian tsunami, while hundreds fled beaches as part of a drill to test an alert network established since the disaster.
Dec 24 - By Janet Frankston Lorin, AP Writer
Robert Baer dreamed of becoming a Hollywood writer and producer, and thought he had caught his big break in 1995 when he met the man who would become famous for creating "The Sopranos."
Dec 23 - By David Bauder, AP Television Writer
To prepare for a prolonged writers strike, television networks have stockpiled a gladiator battle, a lie-detector game, a remade "Password," a celebrity "Apprentice" and a competition for aspiring Pussycat Dolls.
Dec 22 - By Pauline Arrillaga, AP National Writer
The boy before Judge Kenneth Biehn was quiet and withdrawn, an asthmatic whose mother used and sold crack cocaine and whose father was doing time for robbery. At just 14, Kareem Watts stood accused of his own, much more horrific crime: Stabbing to death a neighbor who disrespected his mother.
Dec 19 - By Associated Press
The difference between a pill and a capsule might not seem big, but it could result in hundreds of millions of dollars in lost sales for Wyeth's top drug.
Dec 19 - By Associated Press
Steve Flaig's long search for his birth mother ended at an incredible place: the checkout line of the home-improvement store where he works.
Dec 19 - By Janet Frankston Lorin, AP Writer
A federal jury on Wednesday ruled against a man who says he helped "The Sopranos" creator David Chase develop ideas for the hit HBO mob drama.
Dec 18 - By Janet Frankston Lorin, AP Writer
Both sides were to present closing arguments Wednesday in a trial over whether "Sopranos" creator David Chase owes a New Jersey man money for his help in developing the hit HBO mob drama.
Dec 17 - By Janet Frankston Lorin, AP Writer
Don't expect "Sopranos" creator David Chase to give any insight into the final episode of the mob drama that ended in June when he testifies in federal court Tuesday.
Dec 17 - By Sharon Cohen, AP National Writer
On a late summer night just two months out of elementary school, Derrick Hardaway stepped into a car for a short ride and a deadly mission that changed his life.
Dec 16 - By Angela Delli Santi, AP Writer
Murders are not shocking in this city once called the nation's most dangerous. But even this place is shaken by the killing, still unsolved after five months, of a 12-year-old boy whose skull was so badly shattered by bullets that an undertaker used a top hat to hide the damage.
Dec 15 - By Helen O'Neill, AP National Writer
They called him Iron Man, a hulking teenage football player with a baby face and winsome smile who lived with his parents in a small ranch house in the Buttonwoods section of town.
Dec 11 - By Janet Frankston Lorin, AP Writer
A federal jury was told Wednesday that "Sopranos" creator David Chase got help in developing HBO's Emmy-winning mob drama and owes a former municipal judge for that assistance.
Dec 11 - By Associated Press
Big Daddy is coming back to Broadway. Not to mention Brick, Maggie and Big Mama, too.
Dec 8 - By Sharon Cohen, AP National Writer
Every month or so, Missy Phillips makes a four-hour drive to visit her son in prison, refusing to accept that his fate has been sealed — and he will die behind bars. Joshua, just 23, is serving a life-without-parole sentence in Florida for a ghastly crime — the bludgeoning and stabbing of his 8-year-old neighbor, Maddie Clifton. He's nearing the end of what could be the first of many decades behind bars.
Dec 8 - By Adam Geller, AP Business Writer
There's not much left to remember Robert Sellon by. A single, wallet-sized photo tucked into a framed collage. Old newspaper clippings. Many, many memories. But Tammi Smith doesn't let go easily. Nearly 26 years after her half brother was murdered, she can still mimic the way he smiled, the way he talked. And she recounts what must have happened the night he was beaten to death in a Grand Rapids pool hall.
Dec 8 - By Adam Geller, AP Business Writer
It began as a feud only a child could invent — teenage chest-thumping over who had the right to sneak across a golf course after dark and scoop lost balls out of a pond. But by the time it ended in the pre-dawn blackness of a long-ago June morning, that juvenile bravado had exploded into a crime whose horror defied adult comprehension.
Dec 6 - By Sarah El Deeb, AP Writer
Service stations across the Gaza Strip shut off their fuel nozzles. Tens of thousands of people have no fresh water because pumps can't run. Hospitals parked ambulances, and bicycles are the new favored form of transportation.
Dec 6 - By Hamza Hendawi, AP Writer
The U.S. Army captain balked when his Iraqi contact, a middle-aged man in a sharp business suit and tie, told him the military should pay municipality workers fixing cables in Baghdad's northern Azamiyah neighborhood.
Dec 5 - By Matthew Pennington, AP Writer
A month after emergency rule was imposed, the gate to deposed Supreme Court Judge Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday's house remains locked. Five officers stand sentry outside, allowing him to leave only on Fridays to pray at a mosque under police escort.