A Maryland mayor is asking the federal government to investigate why SWAT team members burst into his home without knocking and shot his two dogs to death in a mistaken drug raid.

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A judge Thursday ordered Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick jailed after determining he violated terms of his bond by taking an unauthorized trip to Canada last month.

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A U.S. athlete who overcame the chaos of war in Sudan to become a middle-distance runner in the United States will carry the American flag during Friday's opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Games.

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A U.S. Navy submarine leaked trace amounts of radioactive water for two years as it made port calls in Japan and other Asian nations, the Navy said Thursday.

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The Green Bay Packers reached a deal Wednesday night to send quarterback Brett Favre to the New York Jets.

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Former colleagues of Bruce Ivins, the man blamed for the 2001 anthrax attacks, accused federal agents Wednesday of hounding the government researcher and his family to the point where Ivins took his own life.

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Fifty-six government employees -- including a police officer, a felony court clerk, two corrections officers and 27 school bus drivers and attendants -- were arrested in a scam that used health insurance information to fraudulently obtain prescriptions for the painkiller OxyContin, authorities said Wednesday.

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Nine people were missing and presumed dead and four were hospitalized Wednesday after the crash of a Sikorsky S-61 helicopter Tuesday night, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said.

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Herb Geving unleashes a broad smile in his 11,000-square-foot mansion. The former cattleman, farmer and owner of a North Dakota garbage business is now retired, able to count the dollar signs brought in by three oil wells.

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POSTVILLE, Iowa (AP) -- Luisa Lopez says no one asked about her age when she started working at the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant. She was 17, and within days she was on a fast-moving poultry production line, wielding a long, sharp pair of scissors....Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Erik Darling, the reedy-voiced guitarist and banjo player who deftly stepped in when Pete Seeger left the pioneering folk music group The Weavers, has died after battling lymphoma. He was 74....Read more

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Two Louisiana businessmen who plotted to defy a U.S. trade embargo by exporting engineering software to Iran avoided prison Thursday when a federal judge ordered them to serve several months in a halfway house....Read more

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Three men who helped promote the online gambling firm BetOnSports have pleaded guilty to federal charges....Read more

BERWYN HEIGHTS, Md. (AP) -- Mayor Cheye Calvo got home from work, saw a package addressed to his wife on the front porch and brought it inside, putting it on a table....Read more

MARATHON, Fla. (AP) -- Two green sea turtles are leaving the Florida Keys for their new home at a Connecticut aquarium via FedEx....Read more

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Computers recently seized from a Frederick, Md., library may hold clues about the 2001 anthrax mailings that killed five people, the FBI said in an affidavit Thursday....Read more

For 11-year-old Nicole Stevens, the Olympics in Beijing are more than a showcase of the world's best athletes. They're a portal to her birth country and a chance to learn more about modern day China....Read more

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- In a district where young professionals live in airy lofts and flock to trendy restaurants and clubs, historians are intent on revealing the buried remnants of Richmond's bustling slave-trading past....Read more

MIAMI (AP) -- A Florida Keys commercial fisherman could lose his boat and do federal prison time if convicted of charges announced Thursday that he illegally poached thousands of spiny lobsters with traps that damaged coral reefs and sea grasses in sensitive marine waters....Read more

FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) -- A packed sport utility vehicle rolled over on a rural highway southwest of Phoenix, killing at least nine people Thursday, authorities said....Read more

MARCH AIR RESERVE BASE, Calif. (AP) -- The Air National Guardsmen who operate Predator drones over Iraq via remote control, launching deadly missile attacks from the safety of Southern California 7,000 miles away, are suffering some of the same psychological stresses as their comrades on the battlefield....Read more

LANCASTER, S.C. (AP) -- Officials were investigating a suspicious fire that gutted the prosecutor's office in this rural county Thursday, three days after an arsonist torched the historic courthouse just half a block away....Read more

ATLANTA (AP) -- The first federal survey of both men and women on adoption challenges some stereotypes and offers some surprising findings:...Read more

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- The circumstantial evidence seemed to cement the murder case against Donald Powell. He had been seen at the Bessemer home of his friend, Sebastian "Chick" Allen, shortly before his body was found July 7. A will leaving Powell $15,000 was found near Allen's body. In an interview lasting several hours to 4:30 a.m., Powell made several inconsistent statements to police....Read more