NEW YORK (AP) -- Stephen Colbert's latest attempt at campaign mischief-making involves encouraging Iowans to write in a false name during the weekend's presidential straw poll, but one television station in Des Moines isn't playing along.

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A Pittsburgh woman will spend nine years in prison for taking advantage of a computer glitch to steal $1.1 million from the city's only minority-owned bank, which regulators closed as insolvent two years ago.

CLEVELAND (AP) -- A serial killer will be put to death for murdering 11 women and dumping their bodies around his property, a judge ruled Friday.

NEW YORK (AP) -- An 18-year-old was dismissed from the U.S. Ski Team's development squad after he was accused of getting drunk and then urinating on a fellow passenger aboard a JetBlue flight.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Carlton J. Roy Sr., a black businessman who worked against segregation alongside influential New Orleans civil rights leaders such as the Rev. Avery Alexander and Dorothy Mae Taylor, has died. He was 94.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The American troops killed in the deadliest single mission of the Afghan war came from two dozen states and all corners of the nation, mostly young men in their 20s and 30s.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- The day Eguel Geffrard was supposed to testify in the trial of the man accused of leading one of South Florida's most violent gangs, police found his bloodied body in a parking lot, a targeted hit authorities said was meant to be a message reinforcing Top 6's power.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Charles L. Gittens, who in 1956 became the first black Secret Service agent, has died. He was 82.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Fifteen incarcerated men who claim they were sent to prison by confessions that were beaten, burned and tortured out of them by convicted Chicago police Lt. Jon Burge and his officers are getting some high-profile help - including from a former Illinois governor.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Troops killed in the deadliest incident of the Afghan war came home Tuesday - traveling in death much the same way they did in life - shrouded in secrecy.