NEW YORK (AP) -- An undercover police officer who touched off the fatal shooting of an unarmed man outside a rowdy strip club after his bachelor party should be fired, according to a recommendation made Wednesday by the police department official in charge of departmental discipline.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- High winds flipped over trees and trucks and knocked out power to more than 300,000 California customers before moving inland early Thursday, where schools in a Utah town closed because of 100 mph wind gusts.

WEST CHESTER, Ohio (AP) -- His campaign rocked anew, a feisty Herman Cain claimed a "groundswell of positive support" from backers on Wednesday and accused critics of trying to derail his White House bid as he worked to stem the fallout from allegations of a 13-year extramarital affair.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Only about 1 in 4 Americans with the AIDS virus have the infection under control with medications, federal health officials said Tuesday.

LAKEHURST, N.J. (AP) -- The mother of a toddler killed in New Jersey last week sought help from the state to protect her from the girl's father, who's charged with killing the 2-year-old by tossing her into a creek while she was still strapped in her car seat. But the toddler's maternal grandmother said the state's child-protection system failed her.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The doctor who was convicted in the overdose death of Michael Jackson was sentenced to the maximum four years in prison Tuesday in a finale to the tormented saga of the King of Pop.

MIAMI (AP) -- In a distressed neighborhood north of Miami's gleaming downtown, a group of enthusiastic but inexperienced instructors from Teach for America is trying to make progress where more veteran teachers have had difficulty: raising students' reading and math scores.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- A hail of gunfire along an Oakland street left eight people wounded, including a 1-year-old boy and a woman who authorities say were hospitalized in critical condition.

CLEVELAND (AP) -- The case of an 8-year-old Cleveland Heights boy taken from his family because he weighs more than 200 pounds has renewed a debate on whether parents should lose custody if a child is severely obese.

Washington (AP) -- The Obama administration is proposing new rules that it says should make it easier for Native Americans to build homes and develop businesses on tribal lands.