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AP Top U.S. News At 3:33 p.m. EST
Fla. mogul, facing trial, adopts his girlfriend
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A millionaire polo mogul in Florida is raising eyebrows with his decision to adopt his 42-year-old girlfriend....
LA school in sex abuse scandal reopens
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Children returned Thursday to an elementary school where the entire staff was replaced after the arrests of two former teachers on charges of committing lewd acts with students in class....
FBI file: Steve Jobs was considered for govt post
WASHINGTON (AP) -- FBI background interviews of some people who knew Apple founder Steve Jobs reveal a man so driven by power that he sometimes lost sight of honesty....
British man wanted in '93 heist nabbed in Missouri
OZARK, Mo. (AP) -- A British armored car guard suspected of driving off with a fortune worth $1.5 million back in 1993 has been captured in rural Missouri, where he had been working as a cable guy and raising a son who apparently knew nothing of his father's past....
Left behind: 10 states fleeing education law
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Thursday declared that 10 states are free from the No Child Left Behind law, allowing them to scrap some of the most rigorous and unpopular mandates in American education. In exchange, the states are promising higher standards and more creative ways to measure what students are learning....
Tribe suing beer companies for alcohol problems
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- An American Indian tribe sued some of the world's largest beer makers Thursday, claiming they knowingly contributed to devastating alcohol-related problems on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation....
Marines posed with Nazi SS symbol in Afghanistan
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The Marine Corps confirmed Thursday that one of its scout sniper teams in Afghanistan posed for a photograph in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the notorious Nazi SS....
Audit clears State Department in Keystone review
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department's internal watchdog cleared the agency Thursday of any impropriety in its review of a permit for a controversial pipeline that that would carry Canadian oil produced from tar sands to refineries along the Texas Gulf coast....
Attorney: Reagan shooter Hinckley not dangerous
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An attorney for the man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan told a judge Thursday that his client has shown he is not dangerous and should therefore be allowed more time away from a Washington mental hospital....
NRC approves first new nuclear plant in 3 decades
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's first new nuclear power plant in a generation won approval Thursday as federal regulators voted to grant a license for two new reactors in Georgia....
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