AP - Lawyers and city officials expressed confidence Friday that they can get ground zero responders to agree to a settlement that would pay up to $657 million to workers who developed health problems after toiling in the ruins of the World Trade Center.

AP - Before he was rounded up in a sweep of suspected al-Qaida terrorists in Yemen, Sharif Mobley was a laborer at five nuclear plant complexes in Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

AP - The man accused of shooting and wounding two students at a Colorado middle school told investigators he was hearing voices after his arrest and was trying to fend off "transforming forces" from his body, according to an arrest affidavit released Friday.