LOS ANGELES (AP) — A nanny who worked for Anna Nicole Smith in the last months of her life said Tuesday that she found bloody syringes and cotton balls, and sometimes a spoon with liquid, inside a bathroom that the celebrity model, her lawyer-boyfriend and her psychiatrist emerged from.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stock futures rose slightly Wednesday as investors tried to brush off fresh worries about the health of European banks.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia says judges may require warrants for police to get cell phone records that could help track a person's location.

WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — The youngest child of reggae legend Bob Marley has admitted growing marijuana in her Philadelphia-area home.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health regulators have issued warnings to the makers of Canada Dry ginger ale and Lipton tea for making unsubstantiated nutritional claims about their green tea-flavored beverages.

PARIS (AP) — Ferrari awaited a decision Wednesday on whether it will face further sanctions from Formula One for breaking rules on team orders at the German Grand Prix.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A former soldier accused of demanding mental treatment as he took hostages at gunpoint at a Georgia Army hospital later told investigators he planned to kill President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton, federal prosecutors said in court documents filed Tuesday.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan election officials said Wednesday that scores of additional polling stations will have to remain closed during the Sept. 18 parliamentary vote because of the deteriorating security situation in the country.

CHICAGO (AP) — Mayor Richard M. Daley, who wielded more control over Chicago than anyone but his father decades before, said Tuesday he will not seek re-election, a surprising end — at least for now — of a dynasty whose surname became synonymous with the city's legendary political machine.

ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP) — A Hardin County farmer said that some ears among his feed corn rows popped on the stalk in a phenomenon that agricultural experts believe is associated with irregular rainfall and high heat.