Lester Stiggers has been a wanted man for 43 years, but he hasn't been hiding.

A defense attorney has cast a former endoscopy clinic employee as a forgotten person as he and his former employer stand trial on murder and other charges in a hepatitis C outbreak.

Prices for metals and oil dropped Tuesday, while key crops recovered some of their losses from the previous day.

DOW 15,000: The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 15,000 points for the first time Tuesday. It had been almost six years since the last time it crested a round number, closing above 14,000 for the first time in July 2007.

Investor Warren Buffett encouraged young workers to find jobs that they are passionate about, as he offered career advice online Tuesday on a variety of topics.

The Dow Jones industrial average punched through another milestone Tuesday: its first close above 15,000.

General Motors Co. confirms that it's building a new Cadillac factory in China.

The price of oil fell Tuesday on expectations of another increase in U.S. oil supplies.

The World Trade Organization has settled on Roberto Azevedo of Brazil, a well-known diplomat and consummate insider in Geneva circles, to serve as its director-general for the next four years, officials said Tuesday.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 15,000 Tuesday for the first time. It's been six years since the Dow closed above 14,000 for the first time.

WASHINGTON

Buccaneer Energy and ConocoPhillips have come to an agreement allowing Buccaneer to drill for oil in the North Cook Inlet unit.

It was the little gestures that put Navy Lt. Gary Ross at ease in the weeks after the repeal of the military's ban on openly gay service members.

In a story May 2 about the Department of Fish and Game detecting rabies in a second interior Alaska wolf, The Associated Press, relying on information provided by the agency, reported erroneously the nature of echinococcus. Echinococcus is a parasite, not a bacterial infection.

A top Labor Department official who took the blame for budgeting mistakes and cost overruns at the federal Job Corps program has resigned.

In another blow to the nation's dwindling labor unions, an appeals court on Tuesday struck down a federal rule that would have required millions of businesses to put up posters informing workers of their right to form a union.

A San Francisco lawmaker said Tuesday that he has abandoned a proposal to rename San Francisco International Airport after slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk and instead plans to pursue getting an airport terminal named in Milk's honor.

Former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin avoided prison time Tuesday for her campaign corruption conviction but was ordered to send written apologies to every judge in the state because she abused her office.

The United States and Russia pledged Tuesday to set aside more than two years of differences over Syria's civil war, saying they'd convene an international conference later this month to try to corral President Bashar Assad's regime and the rebels into talks on a political transition.

President Barack Obama says he doesn't know Kim Jong Un (kim jawng oon) personally and has never spoken to him, but says the North Korean leader can still take a different path.