NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Memphis woman who spent 26 years on death row and came within two months of being executed was freed Friday from a Tennessee prison.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Are President Barack Obama's ideas for job creation really bipartisan as he claims? Not when the means for paying for them are put in the equation.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Some New York City officials say they need more control over the New York Police Department after being left in the dark about programs that subjected entire Muslim neighborhoods to surveillance and scrutiny.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Rick Perry's loss has been Herman Cain's gain.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage this week fell below 4 percent for the first time ever, to 3.94 percent.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, who was bombed, beaten and repeatedly arrested in the fight for civil rights and hailed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for his courage and energy, has died. He was 89.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul says he raised $8 million in the last three months.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Investigators are hoping that navigation equipment and engine instruments aboard a helicopter might provide clues about why it crashed into New York's East River, killing one passenger and seriously hurting three others.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Known for his mediation skills and stylish suits, Memphis Mayor A C Wharton has guided this gritty city through a $60 million budget deficit, a school funding battle and a historic Mississippi River flood.

STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Three U.S.-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for overturning a fundamental assumption in their field by showing that the expansion of the universe is constantly accelerating.