DAYTONA BEACH, Florida - July 16, 2008 - A police lieutenant in Daytona Beach was fired over accusations that he threatened slower emergency response times if he was not given complimentary specialty Starbucks coffee drinks.

The controlled burn kept the Basin Complex blaze from destroying homes on their 55 acres on Apple Pie Ridge. But what some see as a heroic act landed one man in jail.

 
BIG SUR, California - July 7, 2008 - As flames swirled toward their family homestead, the Curtis brothers figured they'd get no help and had no choice: The only way to hold on to their 55-acre ranch and home would be to fight fire with fire.

ATLANTA, Georgia - July 16, 2008 - The post-9/11 airline watch list that is supposed to keep terrorists off airplanes has swelled to more than 1 million names, including at least one investigative reporter who had been critical of the Transportation Security Agency, which maintains the watch list.

SACRAMENTO, California - July 7, 2008 - California is making it mandatory for cars to be labeled with global warming scores, figures that take into account emissions from vehicle use and fuel production.

CHICAGO, Illinois - July 14, 2008 - A Cook County judge has ruled that the Chicago Police Board made the correct decision in suspending - and not firing - an officer who was videotaped beating a 60-year-old man handcuffed and shackled to a wheelchair.

CHARLES TOWN, West Virginia - July 7, 2008 - A Charles Town man has filed a civil action lawsuit against two area law enforcement officers and Wal-Mart after he said he was wrongly accused of child pornography after attempting to develop nude photographs at a store in Winchester last year.

NEW YORK - July 14, 2008 - A man forces his way into an apartment to rape the woman who lives there. A guy on a bicycle handcuffs and robs pedestrians, and another gropes random women on the side of the road.