AP - An Oakland, Calif., environmental group has announced that Chrysler LLC and three auto-parts makers have agreed to end their use of lead wheel weights in the state.

AP - A man accused of lavishly spending millions of dollars of his investors' money has been tentatively ordered to repay $22 million in the alleged swindle.

<p><a href='http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_re_us/beach_bluff_collapse'><img src='http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080820/capt.c38a364e6e6043b39706dfecbdf24670.beach_bluff_collapse_cadp104.jpg?x=130&y=103&q=85&sig=MR2QaCFg8XOuSi6C_ZEYVg--' align='left' height='103' width='130' alt='California State Park lifeguard Ed Vodrazka, left, and San Diego Fire's Maurice Luque, center, return a backpack dug from the rubble to a relative, right, of a man killed in a bluff collapse at Torrey Pines State Park in San Diego Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)' border='0' /></a>AP - A stretch of oceanside bluff below the Torrey Pines Golf Course collapsed and killed a man Wednesday, authorities said.</p><br clear='all'/>

AP - California, the nation's leader in heat-related deaths among farmworkers, sought to turn that trend around three years ago with new laws aimed at ensuring people toiling in sweltering fields had such basics as a water break and an umbrella for shade. But if anything, the problem has gotten worse.

<p><a href='http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_re_us/newark_teen_homicides'><img src='http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080820/capt.28f838d9f8c843abb0f68be3a5f6bb98.newark_teen_homicides_ny123.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=73zfOIQ0d38zt62hGL6raw--' align='left' height='86' width='130' alt='Friends of Bukhari Washington stand near his photo hung as a memorial in an apartment complex in Newark, N.J., Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008. Washington, 15, was shot in his bed by a gun that was fired from the apartment below his, according to police. Terrance Perry, 19, who had no prior criminal record, said the gun went off accidentally. He made his first court appearance Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, and pleaded not guilty to aggravated manslaughter and weapons charges. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)' border='0' /></a>AP - Bukhari Washington had resisted the lure of gangs and drugs that derailed the lives of so many in his tough Newark neighborhood.</p><br clear='all'/>

<p><a href='http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_re_us/thriving_amish'><img src='http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080817/capt.2de95f2da6c545acb66c06562dccc806.rural_voters_wx306.jpg?x=130&y=75&q=85&sig=wfUUotcNQ6p_WBotzr5j_w--' align='left' height='75' width='130' alt='Two Amish girls stand at Snooks Soft Serve ice cream truck in the parking lot of Belleville Farmers Market & Livestock in Belleville, Pa., Wednesday, April 30, 2008. Folks in this picturesque mountain community of red barns and Amish buggies have been voting overwhelmingly Republican in national elections for decades, but tough economic times in Mifflin County and in rural areas all around the country have created possible openings for Democrat Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)' border='0' /></a>AP - The Amish are expanding their presence in states far beyond Pennsylvania Dutch country as they search for affordable farmland to accommodate a population that has nearly doubled in the past 16 years, a new study found.</p><br clear='all'/>

<p><a href='http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_re_us/elephant_fight'><img src='http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080820/capt.fb3631b03fef46b9ac0cc2c4889fc611.elephant_fight_dn101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=4cjWmbDn4PoY5u62jdrNqA--' align='left' height='86' width='130' alt='Dallas Zoo keepers Gavin Eastep, center, feeds treats to Jenny, an African elephant as zoo keeper Reanna Streater cools her with a spray of water,Tuesday, July 29, 2008. The Dallas Zoo announced Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, that the 9,000-pound pachyderm will remain at her home of 22 years following an intense controversy over plans to send the animal to a wildlife park in Mexico. (AP Photo/ Donna McWilliam) Dallas zoo keepers Gavin Eastep, right, feeds treats to Jenny, an African elephant as zoo keeper Reanna Streater cools her with a spray of water,Tuesday, July 29, 2008. Zoo officials plan to send Jenny to a drive-through park in Mexico that they say would be a perfect place for her to live. But a Dallas city councilwoman and several animal activists say that would be a horrible home for Jenny because she gets frightened by cars and deserves a more peaceful existence. (AP Photo/ Donna McWilliam)' border='0' /></a>AP - Jenny the lonely elephant, whose pending move from the Dallas Zoo to Mexico had angered activists, isn't going anywhere after all.</p><br clear='all'/>

AP - It took a jury 13 days to convict and sentence Damien Echols to death for the 1993 slayings of three second-graders.

<p><a href='http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_re_us/lesbian_student_fallout'><img src='http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080820/capt.a8d086e4f1dc4fd297e55edf974b9bd5.aclu_gay_lawsuit_flmw101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=eiXNXlNx9_6aUiqB9iSxxg--' align='left' height='86' width='130' alt='Heather Gillman sits with her ACLU lawyer Benjamin James Stevenson as she is interviewed in Ponce De Leon, Fla. on Monday, Aug. 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Mari Darr Welch)' border='0' /></a>AP - When a high school senior told her principal that students were taunting her for being a lesbian, he told her homosexuality is wrong, outed her to her parents and ordered her to stay away from children.</p><br clear='all'/>

AP - A judge sentenced a man convicted of causing a deadly commuter rail crash to 11 consecutive life terms on Wednesday after denouncing him as a remorseless killer.

<p><a href='http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_el_ge/congresswoman_hospitalized'><img src='http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080820/capt.fbd784337e7d40be86549aab74beddc8.congresswoman_hospitalized_wx107.jpg?x=101&y=130&q=85&sig=fBBzNXRG2OOGwVNfDZ_xOA--' align='left' height='130' width='101' alt='In this May 8, 2006 file photo, Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, questions the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections during a meeting in Cleveland. Tubbs Jones remained in a hospital Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, a spokeswoman said. No other information was released. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)' border='0' /></a>AP - Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress, was hospitalized Wednesday after suffering an aneurysm, her spokeswoman said.</p><br clear='all'/>

AP - The bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas City and St. Joseph says a tentative $10 million deal has been reached to settle 47 sexual abuse claims against a dozen clergy or former clergy.

AP - A Connecticut jury has convicted the man dubbed the 'dinnertime bandit' for robbing wealthy homes in the evening while residents were eating dinner.

<p><a href='http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_re_us/obama_threat'><img src='http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080820/capt.de1b2c19b5d8447e97e3849839ddea43.obama_2008_vash109.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=CytfXbN9fMa29kyL_IjKIg--' align='left' height='91' width='130' alt='Virginia Democratic Senatorial Candidate, former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, left, speaks while Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., right, listens during a town hall meeting at the Patrick Henry Community College Motorsports facility in Martinsville, Va., Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)' border='0' /></a>AP - A man who authorities said kept an arsenal of weaponry and military gear pleaded not guilty Wednesday to threatening to assassinate both President Bush and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.</p><br clear='all'/>

AP - A federal judge has ordered a research company to supply an experimental drug to a 16-year-old Minnesota boy who is terminally ill with muscular dystrophy.

AP - The Coast Guard has suspended its search for a small plane carrying an Alaska state official and his son.

<p><a href='http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_go_co/congresswoman_hospitalized'><img src='http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080820/capt.fbd784337e7d40be86549aab74beddc8.congresswoman_hospitalized_wx107.jpg?x=101&y=130&q=85&sig=fBBzNXRG2OOGwVNfDZ_xOA--' align='left' height='130' width='101' alt='In this May 8, 2006 file photo, Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, questions the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections during a meeting in Cleveland. Tubbs Jones remained in a hospital Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, a spokeswoman said. No other information was released. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)' border='0' /></a>AP - U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones was in a hospital Wednesday but no details on her condition were released.</p><br clear='all'/>

<p><a href='http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_el_se/kerry_four_years_later'><img src='http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080820/capt.4b2f164a812a4a419d0e4f02e9610202.kerry_four_years_later_ny111.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=ulKS69UIwTlYodDmhD898w--' align='left' height='92' width='130' alt='In a June 7, 2008, file photo Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., talks with, supporters, from left, Renee Lawrence, Marilyn Downing, Terri Franey, all delegates from Carver, Mass., at the Democratic State Convention, in Lowell, Mass. Kerry insists he's as committed to seeking re-election to the Senate this fall as he was to campaigning for the White House four years ago. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds/file)' border='0' /></a>AP - The week before the 2004 Democratic National Convention, John Kerry drafted his presidential nomination speech and then set off on a cross-country trip that brought him home to thousands of delegates waiting in Boston.</p><br clear='all'/>

AP - A jury has ruled that a ranch company's negligence helped lead to the 2005 landslide that killed 10 people in a community on California's central coast.

<p><a href='http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_re_us/wildfires'><img src='http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080813/capt.04c5e5fd3979472a8b5f341b2cb97eb3.apple_fire_caps105.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=yRlcwWwkErtLDjioctik.w--' align='left' height='80' width='130' alt='Firemen walk in front of Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., early Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008 after firefighters battled a three-alarm fire that started late Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008. The Santa Clara County Fire Department says the three-alarm fire has burned the roof and the second level at one of the six buildings on the computer company's northern California campus. It was contained early Wednesday morning and no one was injured. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)' border='0' /></a>AP - Rain overnight came to the aid of firefighters at a wildfire in Washington state that prompted an evacuation order for dozens of homes.</p><br clear='all'/>