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• U.S.: Syria 'dragging its feet' on weapons
• Experts: U.S. will likely extradite Amanda Knox if Italy asks
• School district apologizes after taking school lunches
• House GOP leaders' immigration plan doesn't rule out citizenship
• Court upholds Amanda Knox murder conviction
• Lawyers: Missouri moving too quickly on executions
• Stories from the storm: Middle fingers, horns and motherly love
• Obama's 'phone and a pen' problem
• Feds to seek death for Boston bombing suspect
• ACLU promotes ‘My Big Gay Illegal Wedding’ contest
• Italy appeals court upholds murder conviction against Amanda Knox, sets 28.6-year sentence
• Watch out Joe, Hillary's got the edge for 2016
• Police: 9 bodies recovered in Ky. house fire
• NYC's de Blasio dropping stop-and-frisk fight
• 20-term Democratic Rep. Waxman to retire
• Justice Dept. offers to help some drug offenders get out of prison
• Di Blasio drops stop-and-frisk appeal
• U.S. cancels opinion poll funding ahead of Afghan election
• Report: Syria government leveled civilian neighborhoods
• Verdict day for Amanda Knox in murder appeal
• Snow, ice send South's flagship city reeling
• Police: Md. mall gunman wrote of killing people
• Family fight: GOP debates next move on immigration
• Solid growth brightens economic outlook for 2014
• Police: 9 family members killed in Ky. house fire
• Ukraine leader's sick leave prompts guessing game
• Doctors trying to bring Schumacher out of coma
• Scarlett Johansson, Oxfam part ways over politics
• Knox: Frightened, saddened by murder conviction
• Fatal Ky. fire began with material against heater
• Chemical weapons watchdog discusses Syria mission
• 10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos
• US economy grew at 3.2 percent rate in Q4
• Ga. governor takes blame for storm preparations

U.S.: Syria 'dragging its feet' on weapons Posted: 30 Jan 2014 02:24 PM PST Top officials urge Damascus to immediately hand over chemical weapons cache as promised.

Experts: U.S. will likely extradite Amanda Knox if Italy asks Posted: 30 Jan 2014 04:05 PM PST The United States will have little legal argument for turning down an extradition request should Italy seek the return of Amanda Knox for the 2007 murder of her British housemate. In the latest dramatic twist in the high-profile case, a court in Florence on Thursday sentenced Knox to 28 years and six months in prison for killing Meredith Kercher in the university town of Perugia. Her lawyers now plan to appeal this latest conviction in turn to the Italian Supreme Court, but if they fail Knox could find herself flying back to a country where she has already spent four years in jail. "As popular as she is here and as pretty as she is here -- because that's what this is all about, if she was not an attractive woman we wouldn't have the group love-in -- she will be extradited if it's upheld," said Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz.

School district apologizes after taking school lunches Posted: 30 Jan 2014 09:47 AM PST Maybe Ebenezer Scrooge wasn't such a bad guy after all. A group of up to 40 elementary school students in Utah had their lunches taken away due to outstanding balances on their accounts, according to a report from the Salt Lake Tribune.

House GOP leaders' immigration plan doesn't rule out citizenship Posted: 30 Jan 2014 01:49 PM PST House GOP leaders released a document of "standards" for immigration reform on Thursday.

Court upholds Amanda Knox murder conviction Posted: Italian judge sentences American to 28 years in prison for 2007 murder of British roommate.

Lawyers: Missouri moving too quickly on executions Posted: 30 Jan 2014 02:21 PM PST ST. LOUIS (AP) — By the time the U.S. Supreme Court refused a last-minute request to stay the execution of Herbert Smulls, the Missouri inmate was already dead. His attorneys said Thursday that it was the third straight case in which Missouri has moved ahead with an execution while the case was still in court.

Stories from the storm: Middle fingers, horns and motherly love Posted: 30 Jan 2014 09:41 AM PST Tales from this week's storm that dumped three inches of snow on metro Atlanta, iced roads, forced the cancellation of almost 800 flights, caused roughly 1,200 accidents, injured at least 130 people, killed two, wrecked countless commutes and stranded thousands in local schools and business.

Obama's 'phone and a pen' problem Posted: 30 Jan 2014 02:20 AM PST With three years left in his presidency, he still has time to be a generational leader.

Feds to seek death for Boston bombing suspect Posted: 30 Jan 2014 02:09 PM PST Attorney general makes final decision to seek death penalty against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

ACLU promotes ‘My Big Gay Illegal Wedding’ contest Posted: 30 Jan 2014 06:35 AM PST Brian Jensen and Jeromy Manke, a same-sex engaged couple in Nevada, are in the running to win a free trip to New York City, $5,000, and help from a wedding planner to fund their spring nuptials in California.

Italy appeals court upholds murder conviction against Amanda Knox, sets 28.6-year sentence Posted: 30 Jan 2014 12:59 PM PST FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Italy appeals court upholds murder conviction against Amanda Knox, sets 28.6-year sentence.

Watch out Joe, Hillary's got the edge for 2016 Posted: 30 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST The former First Lady is the biggest Democratic frontrunner—ever.

Police: 9 bodies recovered in Ky. house fire Posted: 30 Jan 2014 11:19 AM PST Relative says a couple in their 30s lived in the house with their nine children.

NYC's de Blasio dropping stop-and-frisk fight Posted: 30 Jan 2014 08:54 AM PST City had appealed ruling that police discriminated against blacks and Hispanics.

20-term Democratic Rep. Waxman to retire Posted: 30 Jan 2014 01:10 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Henry Waxman, one of Congress' fiercest negotiators and a policy expert on everything from clean air to health care, will retire at the end of the year after four decades in the House.

Justice Dept. offers to help some drug offenders get out of prison Posted: 30 Jan 2014 02:09 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Thursday asked lawyers around the country to help some drug prisoners prepare petitions for clemency, a dramatic expansion of President Barack Obama's action last month commuting the sentences of eight people he said were serving unduly harsh drug sentences.

Di Blasio drops stop-and-frisk appeal Posted: 30 Jan 2014 08:32 AM PST But NYPD unions seek to intervene and push the appeal forward.

U.S. cancels opinion poll funding ahead of Afghan election Posted: 30 Jan 2014 07:11 AM PST By Jessica Donati KABUL (Reuters) - The United States has cancelled funding for opinion polls in the run-up to Afghanistan's presidential election, a U.S.-funded group said, after a first poll in December triggered accusations of U.S. attempts to manipulate the outcome. The cut in funding comes as relations between the United States and Afghanistan have been severely strained over President Hamid Karzai's refusal to sign a bilateral security pact that would enable U.S. troops to stay beyond this year. An official at a U.S.-funded group that promotes democracy said it and other such organisations had planned to carry out opinion polls as Afghanistan prepares for the April 5 election.

Report: Syria government leveled civilian neighborhoods Posted: 30 Jan 2014 05:10 AM PST BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government used controlled explosives and bulldozers to raze thousands of residential buildings, in some cases entire neighborhoods, in a campaign that appeared designed to punish civilians sympathetic to the opposition or to cause disproportionate harm to them, an international human rights group said Thursday.

Verdict day for Amanda Knox in murder appeal Posted: 30 Jan 2014 11:34 AM PST The American won't be in court to hear Italian judges give their verdict in her retrial.

Snow, ice send South's flagship city reeling Posted: 30 Jan 2014 04:40 AM PST ATLANTA (AP) — The snow and sleet have stopped falling and traffic was moving again around Atlanta following a crippling storm — but transportation and rescue officials said that didn't mean it was safe yet to drive, especially after the sun goes down.

Police: Md. mall gunman wrote of killing people Posted: 29 Jan 2014 04:52 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The gunman in a deadly attack at a Maryland shopping mall wrote in general terms about killing people in his journal and said that he was ready to die, police said Wednesday in releasing new details about writings the shooter left behind.

Family fight: GOP debates next move on immigration Posted: 30 Jan 2014 12:38 PM PST CAMBRIDGE, Md. (AP) — House Republicans wrestled with the outlines of immigration legislation on Thursday, sharply divided over both the contentious issue and the political wisdom of acting on it in an election year.

Solid growth brightens economic outlook for 2014 Posted: 30 Jan 2014 01:21 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumers will spend more. Government will cut less. Businesses will invest more. And more companies will hire.

Police: 9 family members killed in Ky. house fire Posted: 30 Jan 2014 02:03 PM PST GREENVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Eight children and their mother were killed in an early morning house fire in western Kentucky on Thursday, with only the injured father and an 11-year-old girl escaping, Kentucky State Police said.

Ukraine leader's sick leave prompts guessing game Posted: 30 Jan 2014 12:51 PM PST KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Amid the deepest turmoil since the Orange Revolution, President Viktor Yanukovych's announcement Thursday that he was taking indefinite sick leave prompted a guessing game among Ukrainians about what was happening to their country.

Doctors trying to bring Schumacher out of coma Posted: 30 Jan 2014 12:30 PM PST LONDON (AP) — Michael Schumacher's doctors have started trying to wake up the Formula One great from the medically induced coma he's been in since a skiing accident last month, his manager said Thursday.

Scarlett Johansson, Oxfam part ways over politics Posted: 30 Jan 2014 12:27 PM PST JERUSALEM (AP) — Scarlett Johansson has parted ways with the international charity Oxfam because of a dispute over her work for SodaStream, a company operating in a West Bank settlement that features the Hollywood star in an ad that will air during the Super Bowl.

Knox: Frightened, saddened by murder conviction Posted: 30 Jan 2014 01:46 PM PST FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Amanda Knox says she is frightened and saddened by her "unjust" murder conviction in the death of her British roommate Meredith Kercher.

Fatal Ky. fire began with material against heater Posted: 30 Jan 2014 01:53 PM PST GREENVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky State Police say a fire that killed 9 people started accidentally with combustible material against an electric baseboard heater in a bedroom.

Chemical weapons watchdog discusses Syria mission Posted: 30 Jan 2014 12:05 PM PST THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United States on Thursday criticized Syria for its slow pace in moving chemical weapons out of the country for destruction, ratcheting up pressure on President Bashar Assad to cooperate with an unprecedented international chemical disarmament mission.

10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos Posted: 30 Jan 2014 09:35 AM PST Here's your look at highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.

US economy grew at 3.2 percent rate in Q4 Posted: 30 Jan 2014 05:57 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew at a 3.2 percent annual rate in the October-December quarter on the strength of the strongest consumer spending in three years, an encouraging sign for 2014.

Ga. governor takes blame for storm preparations Posted: 30 Jan 2014 10:56 AM PST ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal is taking responsibility for the storm preparation failures that led to an epic traffic jam in Atlanta.

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