AP Top Headlines At 1:17 p.m. EDT

Report: Death toll in China quake exceeds 12,000

By WILLIAM FOREMAN — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:34:35 GMT

DUJIANGYAN, China (AP) -- The toll of the dead and missing soared as rescue workers dug through flattened schools and homes on Tuesday in a desperate attempt to find survivors of China's worst earthquake in three decades....

Clinton poised for W.Va. win; Obama looks ahead

By CHARLES BABINGTON and CALVIN WOODWARD — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:40:09 GMT

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton had every reason to expect a big victory Tuesday in the West Virginia Democratic primary as her campaign tried to use the contest to raise doubts about front-runner Barack Obama's electability in the fall....

Retail sales dip for second time in 2 months

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:44:33 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Consumers, battling soaring gasoline prices and a slumping economy, cut back further on their spending in April....

Senate says halt oil reserve shipments

By H. JOSEF HEBERT — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:48:33 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate, in a direct challenge to President Bush, voted Tuesday to temporarily halt the shipment of thousands of barrels of oil a day into the government's emergency reserve....

Detroit council takes step toward mayor's ouster

By COREY WILLIAMS — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:07:00 GMT

DETROIT (AP) -- The Detroit City Council has taken the first step toward removing Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick over a scandal involving explicit text messages to his former aide....

EarthLink to pull the plug on Wi-Fi in Philadelphia

By DEBORAH YAO — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:46:40 GMT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- EarthLink Inc. is pulling the plug on its troubled wireless high-speed Internet network in Philadelphia, once touted as a model for how big cities should deploy Wi-Fi....

ABC-TV will have only 2 new fall shows

By DAVID BAUDER — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:08:36 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) -- ABC will introduce only two new series in the fall, one of them scripted, in a schedule the network admits was severely affected by the 100-day TV writers strike....

NYC judge gives rapper Remy Ma 8 years in prison

By SAMUEL MAULL — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:13:09 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) -- Remy Ma has been sentenced to eight years in prison in the shooting a woman outside a Manhattan nightclub....

Man says JetBlue made him sit on toilet

By SAMUEL MAULL — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:24:30 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) -- A New York City man is suing JetBlue Airways Corp. for more than $2 million because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from California....

Walsh meets with Goodell, set to talk with Specter

By RACHEL COHEN — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:17:11 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) -- NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said he learned nothing new about the Spygate scandal after meeting with former Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh for nearly 3 1/2 hours Tuesday....