ALBANY, N.Y. New York Senate Republicans are planning to debate hundreds of noncontroversial bills in retaliation for what they say was a broken deal to pass reforms.

BOSTON The Kansas City Royals rallied from an early four-run deficit and knocked the Boston Red Sox out of sole possession of first place in the A.L. East with an 8-6 victory Thursday night.

State-by-state look at cities, counties and communities where stimulus money will be distributed to combat homelessness and the dollars for each location, according to the Housing and Urban Development Department:

ANCHORAGE, Alaska The former fiance of Gov. Sarah Palin's 18-year-old daughter says he thinks he knows why the Alaska governor is resigning - concerns over money.

PHILADELPHIA Jayson Werth homered for the fourth straight game, Chase Utley hit an inside-the-park homer and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Cincinnati Reds 9-6 on Thursday night.

JOLIET, Ill. Brian Vickers won yet another pole, his fifth one this season coming at Chicagoland Speedway.

HOUSTON Stephane Auvray and Ludovic Gotin scored one minute apart in the second half and Guadeloupe clinched a berth in the Gold Cup quarterfinals with a 2-0 win over Nicaragua on Thursday night.

NEW YORK Betty Lennox scored 20 points, Tina Thompson had 16 and the Los Angeles Sparks beat the New York Liberty 69-60 on Thursday night.

COLUMBIA, S.C. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford pushed for a packed schedule but wanted to keep an evening free on the tax-funded trip to Buenos Aires where he says his friendship with an Argentine woman turned physical, e-mails released Thursday show.

URUMQI, China Construction worker Zhang Binkun was seething over the death of his mother, whom he believes was killed by a mob of Uighurs with sticks and stones.

Joel Hanrahan earned his first win of the year the easy way - hanging out in his hotel room.

LOS ANGELES Detectives investigating the death of Michael Jackson are looking at his prescription drug history and trying to talk with his numerous former doctors, the Los Angeles police chief said Thursday.

WASHINGTON People in the United States could get lower-cost drugs from Canada over the Internet under a plan that has passed the Senate.

CHINO HILLS, Calif. State education officials on Thursday rejected a plan by a Southern California school district to use summer classes to make up for a scheduling error that could cost the district millions of dollars.

TORONTO The Toronto Raptors have signed forward DeMar DeRozan, the No. 9 pick in the draft.

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WASHINGTON The Senate has again voted to allow the Obama administration to refuse to release new photos showing U.S. personnel abusing detainees held overseas.

SILVIS, Ill. Lee Janzen stirred some memories and was tied with Darron Stiles for the lead after firing a 7-under 64 in the first round of the John Deere Classic on Thursday.

INDIANAPOLIS Michael Phelps broke the world record in the 100-meter butterfly at the U.S. national championships Thursday, just two months after returning from a suspension that was part of the longest layoff of his career.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. The road from the Navajo community of Sweetwater to Red Mesa is unpaved and rugged but well traveled.

American Indian and Alaskan communities are set to receive $90 million in stimulus funds for water and wastewater projects. Here's a sampling of where the money is going:

WASHINGTON President Obama plans to nominate Philip Murphy, a former finance chairman for the Democratic National Committee, to be ambassador to Germany, the White House announced Thursday.

AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. The Air Force Academy says 84 cadets with flu-like symptoms have been isolated are being tested for swine flu.

WASHINGTON The Senate dealt a blow to the drug lobby Thursday by voting to permit people in the United States to order lower-cost drugs from Canada over the Internet.

NEW YORK A woman accused of tagging her way through Europe has been sentenced to six months in jail for spray-painting Queens subway cars over three years.

HOUSTON An error by Miguel Tejada in the 11th inning made former Nationals reliever Joel Hanrahan a winner Thursday night as Washington beat the Houston Astros 11-10 in the completion of a suspended game.

SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco International Airport officials say a Northwest Airlines jet carrying 194 passengers suffered an engine problem after takeoff, forcing it to return to the airport.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. Unable to find funding since his suspension for failing a random drug test, Jeremy Mayfield is considering selling his race team.

WASHINGTON Dozens of orchestras around the nation can keep playing for now, kept in tune by federal stimulus dollars aimed at saving jobs.

McALESTER, Okla. A man convicted of killing two campers during a 1995 robbery of their southern Oklahoma campsite was put to death Thursday.

WASHINGTON The political crisis in Honduras has cost the country nearly $20 million in U.S. aid - and the price tag could rise if the dueling governments aren't able to reach a solution.

WASHINGTON The U.S. military on Thursday reluctantly turned over to Iraq five Iranians it had accused of fomenting violence in Iraq. The Iraqi government promptly invited them to meet Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and then released them to Iranian custody.

HARTFORD, Conn. An advertising executive's former wife who police say was held hostage by her ex-husband for hours inside his Connecticut home told a newspaper she did not expect to survive the ordeal, which ended when he allegedly set the house on fire after she escaped.

McLEAN, Va. The federal government's most secure prison has determined that two books written by President Barack Obama contain material "potentially detrimental to national security" and rejected an inmate's request to read them.

LONDON One in three breast cancer patients identified in public screening programs may be treated unnecessarily, a new study says. Karsten Jorgensen and Peter Gotzsche of the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen analyzed breast cancer trends at least seven years before and after government-run screening programs for breast cancer started in parts of Australia, Britain, Canada, Norway and Sweden.

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia A Canadian musician has become an Internet sensation after posting a song on YouTube about United Airlines breaking his guitar.

WASHINGTON As President Barack Obama and other world leaders meet in Italy, a global survey released Thursday reflects wide concern that governments won't meet their budgets in this economic climate - and a universal preference to respond by cutting services rather than raising taxes.

WASHINGTON House Democrats were working Thursday to avert a showdown with President Barack Obama and the CIA over who in Congress should receive sensitive information on the agency's covert activities.

SAN ANTONIO The Shriners will continue treating children in all 22 cities where they operate hospitals, but some of the facilities may be downgraded to outpatient surgical centers and the sale or lease of real estate will be explored, the nonprofit's new CEO said Thursday.

NEWPORT, R.I. Two-time defending champion Fabrice Santoro of France won his rain-delayed, opening-round match, beating Italy's Flavio Cipolla, 6-3, 7-5, at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships on Thursday.

WASHINGTON The Illinois congressional seat that former House Speaker Dennis Hastert once held for 20 years may see a Hastert comeback.

WASHINGTON Amid the great debates of the day over health care, global warming and economic recovery, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday there will be no pause in the action to honor Michael Jackson.

INDIANAPOLIS Michael Phelps has broken the world record in the 100-meter butterfly at the U.S. national championships.

WASHINGTON A lot of people are saying this is cyber war. But if the Internet attack on U.S. Web sites was an assault by North Korea or some other foreign government, what good responses are in America's arsenal?

NEW ORLEANS Customs agents discovered an extra ingredient in a shipment of Colombian coffee: nearly a half-ton of cocaine.

PORT RICHEY, Fla. The Coast Guard ended its search Thursday for five people aboard a small plane that crashed off Florida's Gulf Coast, saying it believes all are dead.

WASHINGTON The Senate wants to force the Homeland Security Department to stick with a proposed Bush administration policy requiring employers to fire immigrant workers whose names don't match their Social Security numbers.

WASHINGTON The Drug Enforcement Administration has removed an agent from his pilot duties after he refused to be sent to Afghanistan on a 60-day detail.

CHINO HILLS, Calif. State education officials have given a failing grade to a plan by two Southern California elementary schools to use extended summer sessions to make up for lost class time.

WASHINGTON Sen. Roland Burris, whose deep ties to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich seemed to doom his Senate tenure from the start, will not run for a full Senate term in 2010. The move increases Democrats' chances of holding on to the former Senate seat of President Barack Obama.