Program to help truckers attracts drug smugglers
LAREDO, Texas (AP) -- A U.S. program that offers trusted trucking companies speedy passage across American borders has begun attracting just the sort of customer who places a premium on avoiding inspections: Mexican drug smugglers....

Kennedy dispute reveals divide among Catholics
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A bitter dispute over abortion that prompted Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop to ask Rep. Patrick Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion has revealed the depth of the divide among Catholics over how politicians should reconcile their faith with their public duties....

FBI wants public's help in civil rights killings
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Over the last three years, the FBI scoured faded documents, interviewed aging lawmen and tracked down witnesses from killings that occurred decades ago, many of them involving white police officers who shot black men or teenagers....

Bio-fuel growth raises concerns about forests
PARK FALLS, Wis. (AP) -- Forests are a treasure trove of limbs and bark that can be made into alternative fuels and some worry the increasing trend of using that logging debris will make those materials too scarce, harming the woodlands....

Lawyer: 9/11 defendants want platform for views
NEW YORK (AP) -- The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said....

SF area officer, passenger injured during arrest
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- A train passenger's video of an arrest shows heavy-duty glass shattering and showering down on a San Francisco area transit police officer and an unruly passenger in an incident that injured both men....

Attorney: Jackson's doctor returning to work
HOUSTON (AP) -- Michael Jackson's doctor is expected to return to work at his Houston medical clinic for the first time since before the pop star's death....

New olive planting method prompts Calif. oil boom
ARTOIS, Calif. (AP) -- An oil boom is under way in California's agricultural heartland, as evolving tastes and a trend toward healthy fare have transformed a profession as old as civilization: olive production for the extra virgin market....

Astronauts get set for spacewalk No. 3
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- It's another spacewalking day for the crew of space shuttle Atlantis....

Lethal injection creator fine with 1 drug in Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The man considered the father of lethal injection in the United States said it doesn't matter whether three fatal drugs are used or one - as his home state of Ohio has proposed - as long as the drug works efficiently....