LOS ANGELES – A big green ogre elbowed aside Miley Cyrus — but just barely — in the race to secure the most nominations for the Nickelodeon cable network’s 21st annual Kids Choice Awards. The film “Shrek The Third” received a leading four nominations, including one for favorite animated movie. …

Barack Obama is wearing a wristband in memory of a soldier killed in Iraq, given to him by a mother who said she wants the Democratic presidential candidate to keep others from dying. Tracy Jopek of Merrill, Wis., gave Obama the bracelet at a rally Friday night in Green Bay, …

WASHINGTON – Justice Antonin Scalia’s statement that inflicting pain on a terrorism suspect to elicit critical information could be constitutional was not the first — or second or even third — time he has commented on a legal controversy that ultimately could be settled by the Supreme Court. If past …

JERUSALEM – Israeli aircraft struck the empty office of Gaza’s Hamas premier Ismail Haniyeh and nearby premises of his Interior Ministry Wednesday night, killing a baby and wounding more than 30 other people, Palestinians said. Health officials said the 6-month-old baby was hit by shrapnel from the attack. His family …

BALTIMORE – Helicopters and marine units scoured the surface of the Patapsco River Monday after authorities received a report that an adult threw a child off the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Police received a 911 call shortly before 11 p.m. and rescue workers from several agencies quickly searched the waters …

MILWAUKEE – Fonzie will be given a permanent view of the Milwaukee River. After months of looking, a committee has found a spot for a proposed life-size statue of the “Happy Days” icon in the city where the TV sitcom was set. Committee officials chose the outdoor seating area of …

LAS VEGAS – FBI agents on Sunday searched a Utah house and two storage units linked to a man whose hospitalization led to the discovery of deadly ricin in a motel room he had occupied on the Las Vegas Strip. The search of the home and units at a self-storage …

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. – Authorities say they have searched the home, office and vehicles of a man they think was the last person to see a Hilton Head Island couple who disappeared a week ago. Beaufort County Sheriff’s Lieutenant Neil Baxley says Dennis Ray Gerwing is a person of …

McCOMB, Miss. – A gunman shot two people to death Wednesday in the bank where his ex-wife worked, then took the ex-wife and killed her before committing suicide, authorities said. The others killed were a customer and another employee of the Regions Bank branch in McComb, in southwestern Mississippi. “It …

WAYNESBORO, Va. – The 19-year-old man accused of firing guns at vehicles along Interstate 64 near Charlottesville, Va., has been ordered held without bail in a separate set of shootings. Slade Woodson faces charges involving a credit union and a house on Thursday in Waynesboro. He appeared in court Monday …