CINCINNATI – Police charged a man who had a long-standing dispute with a black activist with shooting him Wednesday afternoon across the street from City Hall. Michael Bailey, a city bus driver who goes by the name Gen. Kabaka Oba, was shot in the leg, arm and chest shortly after …

WASHINGTON – President Bush accused Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on Thursday of “single-handedly thwarting” action on immigration legislation, and got a brisk retort in return. “President Bush has as much credibility on immigration as he does on Iraq and national security,” shot back the Nevada Democrat. The exchange was …

NEW YORK – Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL), the maker of the Macintosh computer and iPod music player, on Wednesday rolled out a first-ever software patch to run Microsoft’s dominant Windows XP operating system on its PCs, a move that could draw millions of new buyers. Apple shares surged 9 percent …

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The sentencing of original “Survivor” winner Richard Hatch has been delayed until May 16. Hatch, 45, won $1 million in the debut season of the CBS reality series. He was found guilty in January of failing to pay taxes on his winnings and other income. Hatch, who …

When Derrick Woods and Chanell Martin decided to surprise their 12-year-old daughter with a Microsoft Zune media player, they had no idea how big of a surprise they were in for. The gadget, they said, came preloaded with more than an hour of raunchy pornography. “It was a homosexual orgy …

LUBBOCK, Texas – One of two brothers who died while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan committed suicide, family and military officials said Thursday. Army Spc. Andrew Velez, 22, died last month in Afghanistan, a little more than a year after his older brother, Cpl. Jose “Freddy” Velez, 23, was killed …

LOS ANGELES – Federal officials said Tuesday they do not know what is causing a critical instrument landing system to fail at Los Angeles International Airport. The system, a beacon that guides planes to one of the airport’s runways, has shut off twice within a week, most recently for about …

LOS ANGELES – Authorities investigating a suspected serial killer said they got at least one promising lead after releasing photos he took of nearly 50 girls and women. A young woman in the pictures strongly resembles a woman who disappeared in 1983 from a Florida bar, they said. The lead …

LARAMIE, Wyo. – Three University of Wyoming students were found dead in a home near campus Sunday in what police said appeared to be a triple murder or murder-suicide. A fourth student, who lived at the house, suffered superficial wounds and had yelled for neighbors to call for help, police …

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israeli strikes killed 23 people in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, including 16 militants and a mother and her two young daughters, in the deadliest day of fighting since Israel withdrew from the coastal strip last year. The violence, in which Palestinians said 76 people …