American Airlines flights grounded because of computer glitch

DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines grounded flights across the country Tuesday because of an outage of its main reservations system. Thousands of passengers were stranded at airports and on airplanes.

Supreme Court declines to hear gun-rights case

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court left in doubt Monday whether gun owners have a Second Amendment right to carry a firearm in public.

Judge making morning-after pill available to all

WASHINGTON — The morning-after pill might become as easy to buy as aspirin.

UA student killed in crash ID'd

A 19-year-old UA student who crashed on his motorcycle on Mount Lemmon and died Friday was identified as Spencer Repp, an official said.

Just what will Robert Klein say at 'Too Jewish' gig?

The one about Bill Clinton never gets old.

NY woman admits making bomb threat to Tucson airport

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — A New York woman has pleaded guilty to phoning in a false bomb threat to Tucson International Airport on Sept. 11, 2011.

Giffords visits Newtown, Conn.

Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Friday visited the Connecticut town where a gunman killed 26 people last month inside an elementary school.

Beauty queen owes pageant $5M for defamation, arbitrator says

NEW YORK — A beauty queen who claimed this year’s Miss USA contest was fixed has been ordered to pay the pageant organization $5 million for defamation.

New Yawk accent lands man in hot water

A man’s distinct accent got him in trouble for calling 911 with a false report Wednesday night.

Tucson theaters to simulcast 12-12-12 concert

Proceeds benefit super storm victims.

From food cart to food court: Tucson Fatdogs opens at mall

Tucson Mall restaurant features behemoth Sonoran hot dog.

Arizona woman’s snapshot captures NYPD officer’s kindness

NEW YORK — A tourist’s snapshot of a New York City police officer giving new boots to a barefoot homeless man in Times Square has created an online sensation.

Oh, the Who-manity: Grinch pinches 350 Christmas trees in NY

HAMLIN, N.Y. — Police in western New York are looking for the thief who drove off with a trailer full of Christmas trees.

Cops: Teens got lap dances at party for NY boy, 16

SOUTH GLENS FALLS, N.Y. — Exotic dancers performed lap dances on teenagers at a boy’s surprise 16th birthday party in an upstate New York village, police said, and investigators were trying to determine whether any organizer of the celebration committed a crime.

Elmo puppeteer on leave over relationship with teen boy

NEW YORK — The puppeteer who performs as Elmo on “Sesame Street” is taking a leave of absence from the popular kids’ show in the wake of allegations that he had a relationship with a 16-year-old boy.

Storm-ravaged states scramble to help displaced residents vote

TOMS RIVER, N.J. — One storm-battered New Jersey county was delivering ballots to emergency shelters Monday while New York City was lining up shuttle buses to ferry people in hard-hit coastal areas to the polls.

Lang Lang Carnegie Hall show postponed to June

Chinese pianist Lang Lang canceled his Tucson concert on Sunday so that he would not be trapped outside of New York City and miss his Carnegie Hall concert on Tuesday.