Senators seek cost cuts for F-35 fighter jet
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senators are seeking cost-cutting opportunities in the Pentagon's $400 billion program for the next-generation F-35, a fighter jet with a troubled testing record that military leaders say America cannot afford not to build.... 6/19/2013 11:08 AM

Former TWA Flight 800 investigators want new probe
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) -- Former investigators are pushing to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of New York, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory that a missile strike may have downed the jumbo jet.... 6/19/2013 11:54 AM

FBI hunt for ex-Teamster boss Hoffa's remains ends
OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- The excavation of a rural field in suburban Detroit has failed to turn up the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, the FBI announced Wednesday, adding another unsuccessful chapter to a nearly 40-year-old mystery.... 6/19/2013 11:17 AM

Tropical depression heads toward Mexican coast
MIAMI (AP) -- Forecasters say a tropical depression crossing Mexico's Bay of Campeche is getting better organized and is expected to become a tropical storm before making landfall along Mexico's Gulf Coast.... 6/19/2013 10:43 AM

Baked Alaska: Unusual heat wave hits 49th state
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- A heat wave hitting Alaska may not rival the blazing heat of Phoenix or Las Vegas, but to residents of the 49th state, the days of hot weather feel like a stifling oven - or a tropical paradise.... 6/19/2013 11:53 AM

Neighbors: Couple killed waited for order to leave
DENVER (AP) -- Bob and Barbara Schmidt dashed to their home on a dirt road in a heavily wooded area northeast of Colorado Springs as smoke from what would become the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history filled the air.... 6/19/2013 11:06 AM

Judge reads charge against Zimmerman to jurors
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida judge read the formal charge against George Zimmerman on Wednesday to 40 potential jurors who could be selected to decide if the neighborhood watch volunteer committed murder when he shot an unarmed Trayvon Martin.... 6/19/2013 11:49 AM

Obama in Berlin: "Our work is not yet done"
BERLIN (AP) -- President Barack Obama is challenging Americans and Europeans not to become complacent even though the Cold War is over.... 6/19/2013 9:49 AM

NSA director says plot against Wall Street foiled
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. foiled a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange because of the sweeping surveillance programs at the heart of a debate over national security and personal privacy, officials said Tuesday at a rare open hearing on intelligence led by lawmakers sympathetic to the spying.... 6/19/2013 12:19 AM

Aug. trial set for Ohio man in kidnapping of women
CLEVELAND (AP) -- A man accused of kidnapping three women and holding them in his home and raping them over a decade was given a late summer trial date Wednesday.... 6/19/2013 11:31 AM