U.S. National - AP

SCRANTON, Pa. - A microscope. A new puppy. A mother. And absolutely, positively NO CLOTHES. Full Story »

ATLANTA - Former Georgia state Sen. Kasim Reed will be sworn in as Atlanta's next mayor after a Wednesday recount confirmed his slim margin of victory over opponent Mary Norwood. Full Story »

CLINTON, N.J. - In a wooded area up a dirt road off an interstate highway, Jamie Cap peers down the sight of his new shotgun at a target about 40 yards away. He adjusts the angle by nudging a toggle switch, then fires. Full Story »

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. - John Allen Ditullio is a walking billboard for the neo-Nazi movement: a large 6-inch swastika tattooed under his right ear, barbed wire inked down the right side of his face, and an extreme and very personal vulgarity scrawled on one side of his neck. Full Story »

CORNETTSVILLE, Ky. - A patient charged with shooting a popular community doctor to death at a rural clinic hours after being denied narcotics pleaded not guilty Wednesday. Full Story »

DALLAS - After fighting his way across Europe during World War II, John Pistone was among the U.S. soldiers who entered Adolf Hitler's home nestled in the Bavarian Alps as the war came to a close. Full Story »

TACOMA, Wash. - Thousands of officers from across North America came to Washington state to honor four Lakewood Police officers who were gunned down in a coffee shop. Full Story »

WOODBRIDGE, Va. - Prince William County Police say a community college student was aiming for his professor when he fired a rifle in a classroom full of students. Full Story »

BOSTON - A state senator's victory in the Republican primary for the special election to fill the late Edward M. Kennedy's Senate seat gives the Massachusetts GOP something it's sorely missed: a place in the political spotlight. Full Story »

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. - A judge has denied bond for a Maryland woman accused of holding a pregnant woman captive and trying to cut her unborn child from her womb. Full Story »