US Top Stories from Associated Press (AP)

NEW YORK (AP) , A city police officer dreamed up plots to kidnap, torture, cook and eat at least 100 women whose photos, names and addresses he pulled from a confidential law enforcement database, authorities said Thursday.

GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) , Mindy Sigg sat sobbing on Thursday, listening to prosecutors tell a court that her 17-year-old son had confessed to the abduction and killing of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway. While any mother would be devastated, there was an even more heartbreaking wrinkle for Sigg: She was the one who called police.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) , Vice President Joe Biden says George McGovern should be remembered as the "father of the modern Democratic Party," saying the former South Dakota senator helped open the party to women, young people and minorities.

NEW YORK (AP) , David Stern spent nearly 30 years growing the NBA, turning a league that couldn't even get its championship series on live prime-time TV into a projected $5 billion a year industry. Confident the NBA is in good shape and certain he has found someone who can make it even better, Stern is ready to end one of the most successful and impactful careers in sports history.

A Minnesota college student is refusing to apologize for the video she took of her local Democratic congressman labeling members of his state's largest pro-life group as "extremists." Kate Engstrom, 20, taped Rep. Collin C. Peterson's answer to her question at an Oct. 16 event for Concordia College students in Moorhead, Minn.

COLLEGE PARK, Ga. (AP) , A man suspected in Wednesday's fatal shooting at a Georgia megachurch was once committed to a mental health facility in Maryland after facing various criminal charges including attempted murder, according to court records.

LOS ANGELES (AP) , An expert has determined that a surfer was killed off California's Central Coast by a 15- to 16-foot great white shark. Ralph Collier of the Shark Research Committee examined the body of 39-year-old Francisco Javier Solorio Jr. of Orcutt before making the determination Wednesday.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) , They're teens skipping school and adults driving through the night to line up before dawn in soggy San Francisco - all for a chance to watch a few innings of the World Series for free.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) , Sean "Diddy" Combs was a passenger in an SUV that was hit by another car in front of the Beverly Hills Hotel, but the hip-hop and fashion mogul was not taken to a hospital. Beverly Hills police Lt. Lincoln Hoshino said Combs was riding in a Cadillac Escalade on Sunset Boulevard when a Lexus sedan turned left in front of it, and the vehicles collided.

NEW YORK (AP) , Samsung Electronics Co. has been running ads touting its Galaxy S III phone as its "next big thing." Now it has something bigger. The S III released a few months ago has a screen that measures 4.8 inches diagonally, making it bigger than even the iPhone 5, which is Apple's largest phone yet.

HOUSTON (AP) , During often tearful testimony, the mothers of four children who died in a 2011 home day care fire in Houston recounted for jurors on Wednesday the despair and grief they felt in the wake of the deadly blaze. The parents testified during the first day of the felony murder trial of former day care owner Jessica Tata. She is facing up to life in prison if convicted.

CHICAGO (AP) , People who collapse from cardiac arrest in poor black neighborhoods are half as likely to get CPR from family members at home or bystanders on the street as those in better-off white neighborhoods, according to a study that found the reasons go beyond race. The findings suggest a big need for more knowledge and training, the researchers said.

COLORADO WESTMINSTER , A teenager who lived just a mile from a 10-year-old Colorado girl who was abducted and killed earlier this month has been arrested in her death, along with a May attack on a runner, authorities said Wednesday. Police said they arrested Austin Reed Sigg, 17, on Tuesday night after receiving a phone call, apparently from his mother, that led them to Mr. Sigg.

STARKE, Fla. (AP) , Following a slew of conflicting court rulings, a federal appeals court Tuesday night blocked the scheduled execution of a mass killer convicted of eight slayings that jolted South Florida in the 1970s. The U.S. Supreme Court quickly upheld the stay.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) , An Iowa teacher's aide was fired Tuesday after school officials recently learned she was the member of an Indianapolis family who tortured and killed a girl in the basement of their home in 1965. Paula Pace had worked for the BCLUW consolidated school district based in the central Iowa town of Conrad since 1998.