WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) - The first thing you'll do upon entering Legoland Florida is walk up to the nearest oversized Lego model and touch it: Is it really made out of those little plastic bricks that are as much a part of American childhood as skinned knees and ice cream cones?
NEW YORK - In a small granite plaza a block from the New York Stock Exchange, a group of 20-somethings in flannel pajama pants and tie-dyed T-shirts are plotting the demise of Wall Street as we know it.
ALBANY, N.Y. - The OnStar automobile communication service used by 6 million Americans maintains its two-way connection with a customer even after the service is discontinued, while reserving the right to sell data from that connection.
SEATTLE - President Barack Obama charged Sunday that the GOP vision of government would "fundamentally cripple America," as he tried out his newly combative message on the liberal West Coast.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. - A woman whose remains were found inside a 55-gallon cement-filled drum in her apartment building might have been strangled by her husband, authorities said Sunday.
NEW YORK - Two American hikers held for years in an Iranian prison came home Sunday, declaring that they were detained because of their nationality, not because they might have crossed the border from Iraq.
MIAMI - Forecasters say Hurricane Hilary has strengthened into a small, but powerful Category 4 storm in the Pacific.
MARIANNA, Fla. - A Florida Panhandle man has been sentenced to three consecutive life terms plus an additional 70 years for a fatal robbery.
ORLANDO, Fla. - Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon is skeptical about a push to bring casino gambling into the state.
ORLANDO, Fla. - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says the end of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy that barred gays and lesbians from serving openly is a social experiment pushed by Democrats.
COLUMBUS, Ga. - The mother of a slain Georgia police officer says she can't believe that the execution of Troy Davis has taken place 22 years after he was convicted of killing her son.
JACKSON, Ga. - From outside a Georgia prison to a public square in France, hundreds who believe an innocent man was about to be put to death congregated Wednesday to protest, knowing that Troy Davis had nearly run out of options to stop his imminent execution.
JACKSON, Ga. - Defiant until the end, Troy Davis was executed Wednesday night for the murder of an off-duty police officer. He convinced hundreds of thousands of people around the world, but not a single court, that he was innocent.
MIAMI - Tropical Storm Ophelia has formed in the open Atlantic Ocean but it is far from land.
SALT LAKE CITY - A Salt Lake City man faces federal felony charges after authorities say he threatened a seatmate on a Las Vegas-bound flight.
NEW YORK - New York City police are looking for a woman who took eight of her own children from a child welfare agency without permission.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Voters in five northeast Florida counties have picked Audrey Gibson as their next likely state senator.
NEW YORK - An Internet poker company that was blocked from operating in the U.S. in the spring as part of an online gambling crackdown was "not a legitimate poker company, but a global Ponzi scheme," federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
At a food pantry in a Chicago suburb, a 38-year-old mother of two breaks into tears.
CHICAGO - Former Sen. Charles H. Percy, a successful Chicago businessman once widely viewed as a top presidential contender, described himself as "a conservative on money issues but a liberal on people issues."
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