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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) -- A small-town judge with three wives was ordered removed from the bench by the Utah Supreme Court on Friday. The court unanimously agreed with the findings of the state's Judicial Conduct Commission, which recommended the removal of Judge Walter Steed for violating the state's bigamy law. Steed has served for 25 years on the Justice Court in the polygamist community of Hildale in southern Utah, where he ruled on misdemeanor crimes such as drunken driving and domesti ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq has been placed on an FBI list of top terrorism suspects who haven't been charged with crimes in the United States but are wanted for questioning. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was placed on the list Thursday, and the U.S. State Department is offering a reward of up to $25 million for information leading directly to the Jordanian native's arrest or conviction. "Al-Zarqawi is sought in connection with numerous terrorist attacks and continuing terr ...

BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Iraqi authorities announced another daytime curfew Saturday for Baghdad and its neighboring provinces, just as mortars struck near a shrine sacred to both Sunni and Shiite Muslims. The curfew bars vehicles, not pedestrians, and will last until 4 p.m. in the capital, Babil, Diyala and Salaheddin, home of the al-Askariya "Golden Mosque" that was bombed Wednesday. The rest of the nation will observe an overnight curfew ending at 6 a.m., emergency police said. The attac ...

PIERRE, South Dakota (AP) -- State lawmakers voted Friday to ban nearly all abortions in South Dakota and sent the measure to the governor, who said he is inclined to sign it. Under the legislation, doctors in South Dakota would face up to five years in prison for performing an abortion unless it was necessary to save the woman's life. The bill directly targets Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. State lawmakers believe the nation's highest court is now  ...

By Andrew Gray and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Police investigating the robbery of up to 50 million pounds from a security depot in southern England found a quantity of cash in a van in a hotel car park on Friday, close to an international rail terminal. Police said they were linking the find with their investigation into the robbery earlier this week, thought to be the biggest cash heist in British criminal history. Television stations showed pictures of police in white forensic suits and ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Police have arrested dozens of people across Europe in a Spanish-initiated sting operation against suspected users of child pornography, Polish private television station TVN 24 reported on Friday. In the operation codenamed Azahar (orange blossom), Polish police arrested 12 people in several cities, five remain in custody. Twenty-four people had been arrested in Spain. "Opera ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Doctors treating a seriously ill two-year-old girl can let her die naturally after her condition worsened, a High Court judge ruled on Friday. The parents of Charlotte Wyatt have fought a number of legal battles to prevent doctors withdrawing treatment from their sick daughter, who has spent much of her short life in hospital. Charlotte, born three months premature weighing on ...

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (AP) -- The boyfriend of the woman dubbed the "cell phone bandit" was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison for his role in four bank robberies last year. Dave C. Williams, of Fairfax, Virginia, apologized profusely for helping Candice R. Martinez rob four Wachovia Bank branches from October 12 to November 4. He urged U.S. District Judge Judge Gerald Bruce Lee to give him thousands of hours of community service, instead of putting him behind bars. But the judg ...

By Rachel Sanderson PINEROLO, Italy (Reuters) - Scottish housewife Rhona Martin became a national hero and gave curling a prime time following when her "stone of destiny" at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games won Britain there first winter gold in nearly two decades. Four years on, Britain's triumphant curlers are dethroned, reeling from the women's early exit and the men's loss to the United States in Friday's bronze medal game. "I feel pretty bad for the guys. We played so bloody well this week, ...

By Andrew Hammond RIYADH (Reuters) - Two cars exploded at the gates of Saudi Arabia's huge Abqaiq oil facility on Friday when security forces fired on suicide bombers trying to storm the world's biggest oil processing plant, Saudi officials said. Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said oil and gas output was unaffected by the "terrorist attempt" -- the first direct strike on a Saudi oil target since al Qaeda militants launched attacks aimed at toppling Saudi Arabia's pro-Western monarchy in 2003. "Sec ...