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LAKEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — A gunman fired on police as he holed up in a Lakewood home with a woman and three young children for more than five hours before being arrested Saturday, authorities said. The suspect was the only person injured during the standoff that began about 10 p.m. Friday as police responded to a domestic disturbance report, the Lakewood police dispatch office said. Police said the suspect opened fire shortly after officers arrived and then remained inside the home near West... Read Full Story

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Boston Scientific Corp. has strengthened its programs to make sure it complies with laws regulating its medical devices, after its Guidant unit failed to properly disclose changes it made to some implantable heart devices in 2002 and 2005, according to a court document aimed at trying to resolve criminal charges against the heart device maker. Read Full Story

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates is betting that Americans’ frustration with a ballooning deficit will finally allow him to trim one of the government’s most politically protected entitlement programs: the military’s $50 billion-a-year health care system. Read Full Story

KIRSTEN GRIESHABER,Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Newly discovered documents have revealed a bizarre footnote to World War II: the Nazis’ dogged obsession with a Finnish mutt who gave not a howl, but a heil. And, just as absurdly, the totalitarian state that dominated most of Europe was unable to do much about the canine’s paw-raising parody of Germany’s Fuehrer. In the months preceding Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union, Berlin’s Foreign Office commanded its diplomats in the Nazi... Read Full Story

ATLANTA (AP) — In a remarkable turnabout, federal health officials say many Americans are now getting too much fluoride because of its presence not just in drinking water but in toothpaste, mouthwash and other products, and it’s causing splotches on children’s teeth and perhaps more serious problems. Read Full Story

SHANGHAI (AP) - Restaurants and office buildings in China’s commercial capital Shanghai are scrambling to set up nonsmoking areas as the city bans lighting up in indoor public spaces ahead of the World Expo. There is rising awareness of the health risks of smoking in China, by far the world’s biggest tobacco-consuming country, and this modern city of 20 million is cleaning up its act as it prepares to host the Expo, which begins May 1. That six-month event, which will showcase the theme... Read Full Story

WASHINGTON (AP) - Toyota Motor Corp. faces more questions from U.S. lawmakers over its troubled safety record when top company officials testify Tuesday at a Senate hearing on the automaker’s huge worldwide recall of 8.5 million vehicles. The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation will hold the third congressional hearing in seven days on whether Toyota and federal safety regulators acted swiftly enough to deal with cases of sudden unintended acceleration of the Japanese... Read Full Story

WASHINGTON (AP) - What if you could be fat but avoid heart disease or diabetes? Scientists trying to break the fat-and-disease link increasingly say inflammation is the key. In the quest to prove it, a major study is under way testing whether an anti-inflammatory drug – an old, cheap cousin of aspirin – can fight the Type 2 diabetes spurred by obesity. And intriguing new research illustrates how those yellow globs of fat lurking under the skin are more than a storage site for extra calories... Read Full Story

SANTA MONICA, California (AP) - With O.J. Simpson giving his agreement from prison, a judge approved a plan Monday to donate the suit the former NFL star was wearing when he was acquitted of murder to the Smithsonian Institution. The deal ends a 13-year legal battle between Simpson’s former sports agent Mike Gilbert and Fred Goldman, the father of the man Simpson was accused of killing in 1994. Both men claimed the right to the suit, shirt and tie Simpson was wearing Oct. 3, 1995, when he... Read Full Story

LONDON (AP) - European stock markets rose modestly Tuesday as investors awaited the next developments in the Greek debt crisis and kept a close eye on currencies following big drops in the value of the euro as well as the British pound. The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was up 17.49 points, or 0.3 percent, at 5,423.43 while Germany’s DAX rose 15.02 points, or 0.3 percent, to 5,728.53. The CAC-40 in France was 6.22 points, or 0.2 percent, higher at 3,775.76. The main focus in the... Read Full Story