WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul says he raised $8 million in the last three months.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Investigators are hoping that navigation equipment and engine instruments aboard a helicopter might provide clues about why it crashed into New York's East River, killing one passenger and seriously hurting three others.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Known for his mediation skills and stylish suits, Memphis Mayor A C Wharton has guided this gritty city through a $60 million budget deficit, a school funding battle and a historic Mississippi River flood.

STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Three U.S.-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for overturning a fundamental assumption in their field by showing that the expansion of the universe is constantly accelerating.

DETROIT (AP) -- A Nigerian man accused of trying to bring down an international jetliner with a bomb in his underwear walked into the start of his federal trial Tuesday and declared that a radical Islamic cleric killed by the U.S. military is alive.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An emergency room physician told jurors Monday that Michael Jackson's doctor never mentioned that he had given the singer the powerful anesthetic propofol, but acknowledged the disclosure probably wouldn't have saved the King of Pop.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- A federal judge on Friday dismissed one of two lawsuits over whether black slaves once owned by members of the Cherokee Nation have the right to tribal citizenship.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nine justices of the Supreme Court, who serve without seeking election, soon will have to decide whether to insert themselves into the center of the presidential campaign next year.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Civil rights lawyers asked a federal judge Monday to force the New York Police Department to turn over documents about its secret efforts to spy on and infiltrate the Muslim community.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- Sent to death row 20 years ago as a convicted cop killer, Troy Davis was celebrated as "martyr and foot soldier" Saturday by more than 1,000 people who packed the pews at his funeral and pledged to keep fighting the death penalty.