The surviving Grateful Dead members performed together for the first time in four years in San Francisco under a sign with the familiar skull and lightning bolt emblem that read, “Dead Heads for Obama ‘08.”

CHICAGO | The killer of five women at a Lane Bryant store made sexual advances on at least one of the victims before the slayings, a source said.

Al-Qaida, increasingly tamped down in Iraq, is establishing cells in other countries as Osama bin Laden’s organization uses Pakistan’s tribal region to train for attacks in Afghanistan, the Middle East, Africa and the United States, the U.S. intelligence chief said Tuesday.

ST. LOUIS | Walter Bauer, a leader in the famous baby tooth study that helped show the spread of nuclear fallout, died Saturday. He was 82.

Delegates: 52 99% reporting Obama 56% 7 delegates Clinton 42% 9 delegates Across the state, about half of the Democratic voters were black, and Barack Obama won 80 percent of their votes. Exit polling also showed he captured 60 percent of the votes from people under 30. His opponent, Hillary Clinton, did not visit Alabama during the closing days of the primary.

Scott Gerrity figured he would walk right in to his first-ever caucus. Yeah, right. Hours after joining hundreds of others in a line wrapping around the block at Shawnee Mission Unitarian Universalist Church in Overland Park, and even after learning the world’s news media had declared victory for Barack Obama in Kansas, the high school student stood in a drizzling rain waiting to get in.

WORCESTER, Mass. | Two men are accused of burning down the birthplace of the woman made famous by the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”

Delegates: 45 99% reporting Huckabee 41% 13 delegates McCain   37% 12 delegates Romney  

LOS ANGELES | A restraining order against the man who has been at Britney Spears’ side during her spiral portrays him as a Svengali figure who held her a virtual hostage in her home.

Environmental groups seeking to protect whales from the potentially harmful effects of sonar cheered a legal victory against the Navy and the Bush administration.