Updated: 9:28 PM PepsiCo Inc. is removing a controversial ingredient from its Gatorade sports drink following customer complaints.

Updated: 9:18 PM An attorney for Lance Armstrong told the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency the cyclist will cooperate with efforts to "clean up cycling," though it's the sport's governing body and world anti-doping officials who should take the lead.

Posted: 9:05 PM Friends and dignitaries are remembering Dolores Prida, a New York-based writer who chronicled Hispanic life on stages, on opinion pages and in advice columns.

Posted: 6:57 PM The sentencing hearing of a Hells Angel convicted of making threats has been delayed amid questions about the disappearance of his wife.

Posted: 6:18 PM A spokesman for the salvage of a Royal Dutch Shell PLC drill barge says salvers have not made a plan for moving the vessel from Alaska's Kodiak Island.

Posted: 4:30 PM The U.S. Olympic Committee will name its training facility after late Sen. Ted Stevens, whose legislation set a template for the modern Olympic movement.

Posted: 12:04 PM Reno police say Kassidy Nelson, the missing Utah girl, has been located in Las Vegas.

Posted: 4:17 PM A bankruptcy court judge has frozen the assets of the owners of a Massachusetts pharmacy blamed for a deadly meningitis outbreak.

Posted: 4:05 PM Actor Burt Reynolds is in intensive care in a Florida hospital.

Posted: 3:55 PM Sarah Palin is out as a Fox News Channel contributor.

Posted: 3:51 PM Dr. Phil McGraw has booked the first on-camera interview with the man who allegedly concocted the girlfriend hoax that ensnared Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o.

Updated: 3:42 PM A Wisconsin sheriff says he released an ad calling on residents to defend themselves because the old model of having a citizen call 911 and wait for help isn't always the best option.

Updated: 3:15 PM Apple Inc.'s stock has been on the decline since the company's quarterly earnings report Wednesday suggested that its fast growth phase may be coming to an end.

Posted: 1:45 PM The White House and a bipartisan group of senators will launch separate efforts next week to jumpstart negotiations to overhaul immigration, an issue that has languished in Washington for years.

Posted: 9:13 AM The leader of Rhode Island's Senate says the fate of gay marriage legislation could hinge on the exemptions it includes for religious organizations that oppose it.

Posted: 9:03 AM A Florida appellate court has set aside two of the four convictions Casey Anthony faced for lying to detectives during the investigation into her missing 2-year-old daughter.

Posted: 8:29 AM First American Airlines wanted to redesign its planes, and now it plans to outfit employees in new uniforms.

Posted: 8:27 AM A federal appeals court has ruled that President Barack Obama violated the Constitution when he bypassed the Senate to fill vacancies on a labor relations panel.

Posted: 8:28 AM Months after Superstorm Sandy, at least 3,500 families are still living in hotels in New York and New Jersey.

Updated: 3:56 PM Breaking new ground, the U.S. Education Department is telling schools they must include students with disabilities in sports programs or provide equal alternative options. The directive, reminiscent of the Title IX expansion of athletic opportunities for women, could bring sweeping changes to school budgets and locker rooms for years to come.

Updated: 11:50 PM The fight to allow gay marriage in Rhode Island moves to the state Senate following an overwhelming endorsement of same-sex marriage in the House of Representatives.

Posted: 10:41 PM Orange County prosecutors say a 36-year-old man has been charged with setting a series of fires to distract residents whose homes he would then rob.

Updated: 9:56 PM Iraq veteran Alma Felix hopes the U.S. military's new rules to open hundreds of thousands of combat jobs to women will lead society to recognize that female troops can be courageous warriors.

Posted: 8:54 PM San Francisco officials have approved a plan that would greatly complicate future efforts to drain a city-owned flooded gorge in Yosemite National Park that has been called a twin of breathtaking Yosemite Valley.

Updated: 11:41 PM Vice President Joe Biden says he's more concerned about limiting the number of rounds in a gun magazine than about banning assault weapons that account for a small percentage of gun deaths.