NASA's older Mars rover notches another milestone
Written by ALICIA CHANG,AP Science Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Opportunity, NASA's other Mars rover, has tooled around the red planet for so long it's easy to forget it's still alive.
SWAT standoff in Ga. uncovers dismembered body
Written by RUSS BYNUM,Associated Press
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Police went to Chad Moretz's home to ask him about a friend who had gone missing and quickly found themselves in a tense standoff when a relative answered the door and whispered: "He's got a rifle. He's going to kill y'all."
Testing brain pacemakers to zap Alzheimer's damage
Written by LAURAN NEERGAARD,AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — It has the makings of a science fiction movie: Zap someone's brain with mild jolts of electricity to try to stave off the creeping memory loss of Alzheimer's disease.
Aviation technology advances, FAA tries to keep up
Written by DAVID KOENIG,AP Airlines Writer
DALLAS (AP) — After two separate and serious battery problems aboard Boeing 787s, it wasn't U.S. authorities who acted first to ground the plane. It was Japanese airlines.
Officials: NM teen gunman kills 5 inside home
Written by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A teenage boy fatally shot two adults and three children at a home near Albuquerque, authorities said Sunday.
Superstorm challenges definition of basement in NJ
Written by BY KATIE ZEZIMA,Associated Press
HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) — Irene Sobolov believes the first floor of her house is just that. The federal government and her insurance company say it's a basement.
Hundreds honor information activist Swartz in NYC
Written by JENNIFER PELTZ,Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Portraying his suicide as the product of injustice, friends and supporters at a memorial Saturday for free-information advocate Aaron Swartz called for changing computer-crime laws and the legal system itself.
Original Batmobile from TV series sells for $4.2M
Written by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The original Batmobile from the 1960s television series has sold at auction for $4.2 million.