CHIPLEY, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say the mother of a missing Florida 7-month-old secretly turned her over to her baby sitter in the middle of the night.

Keep Palestine Beautiful will host a community meeting on beginning at 7 p.m. today in the City Hall council chambers to present the graffiti abatement rapid response program.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Recognizing that a weak economy still needs a government boost, the Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to provide the jobless with up to 20 weeks in additional unemployment benefits and expand a first-time homebuyer tax credit to include a far larger pool of people entering the dormant housing market.

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical storm Ida is gaining strength in the southwest Caribbean, prompting a hurricane watch for the eastern coast of Nicaragua and storm warnings for two Colombian islands.

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — The prosecution has rested in the Galveston capital murder trial of a man accused in the 2007 death of his toddler stepdaughter.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas voters overwhelmingly chose Tuesday to strengthen their private property rights as enshrined in the state constitution — one of eleven constitutional amendments approved in the poll.

JEWETT — The Palestine Ladycats had their season come to an end Tuesday night.
Palestine lost to Lorena in three games — 25-17, 25-13, 25-14 — in the Class 3A-Region III bi-district playoff match at Leon High School.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorneys for John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area that left 10 dead, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to stop his execution.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. authorities on Tuesday reported a spike in seizures of guns and cash along the Mexican border since they began assigning more agents to stem the flow of southbound contraband.