Rutgers suspended Hall of Fame women's basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer on Tuesday for one game for misusing practice players.Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans have succeeded in blocking President Barack Obama's choice of a union lawyer for the National Labor Relations Board.Read more

NEW YORK — The euro extended its rise against the dollar for a second day Tuesday as hopes grew for a solution for helping several European countries manage their deficits.Read more

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ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. David Paterson says he believes an anticipated story by The New York Times about his personal conduct won't include much-rumored talk of wild behavior.Read more

NEW YORK — Sugar and orange juice prices rose Tuesday after the Department of Agriculture's latest report predicted smaller supplies of the crops than previously estimated.Read more

BROCKTON, Mass. — A Massachusetts woman was convicted of second-degree murder Tuesday in the fatal prescription drug overdose of her 4-year-old daughter.Read more

ATLANTA — The government says Delta Air Lines and US Airways can swap takeoff and landing slots at airports in New York and Washington, but there's a catch: They must sell some of the slots to protect competition.Read more

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A lawyer for 10 U.S. missionaries detained in Haiti says parents of the children they're suspected of kidnapping told a judge they freely handed over their kids.Read more

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Vancouver Olympic officials are confident concerns about the warm weather's effect on conditions at Cypress Mountain soon will be forgotten.Read more

CLEVELAND — A jury on Tuesday acquitted three former employees of an Ohio treatment center for troubled teens of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 17-year-old girl who suffocated and choked on her own vomit after being restrained facedown on the floor.Read more