A Ford Motor Co. spokeswoman said Monday that the carmaker has reached a settlement agreement with Jason Schechterle, a Phoenix police officer severely burned in March 2001 when his patrol car exploded.

A Ford Motor Co. spokeswoman said Monday that the carmaker has reached a settlement agreement with Jason Schechterle, a Phoenix police officer severely burned in March 2001 when his patrol car exploded.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Thousands of flag-waving mourners watched as a motorcade carrying the body of Gerald R. Ford made its way one last time through the streets of his boyhood hometown to the Ford family church, where an honor guard carried the late president's casket inside for a final funeral service.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - The nation remembered Gerald R. Ford on Tuesday for what he didn't have - pretensions, a scheming agenda, a great golf game - as much as for the small-town authenticity he brought to the presidency. The state funeral for the 38th president began with an elaborate service at Washington National Cathedral, then moved to Grand Rapids in Ford's final homecoming.

WASHINGTON - Less pomp, more circumstance. Gerald R. Ford's state funeral is missing some of the grandeur of the one for Ronald Reagan two years ago, a reflection of the 38th president's modest ways and lesser imprint on the nation, according to further planning details released Thursday.

WINDOW ROCK -- Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr. has declared Jan. 2 a day of remembrance for former U.S. President Gerald Ford, who died this week.

LOS ANGELES - Gerald Ford, the only unelected president in United States’ history, has died, his wife, Betty, said Tuesday. He was 93.

WASHINGTON - Eyewitnesses to history, Americans paraded through the Capitol on Sunday to pay their final respects to Gerald R. Ford, with parents seeking to convey to their children the significance of the 38th president's short tenure.

IRVINE, Calif. - President Bush, rebutting lawmakers advocating a law-and-order approach to immigration, said Monday that those who are calling for massive deportation of the estimated 11 million foreigners living illegally in the United States are not being realistic.

CRAWFORD, Texas -- President Bush said his meeting today with national security advisers put him a step closer to making changes to U.S. strategy in Iraq, but that he will seek more advice before announcing a plan in January.

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WASHINGTON - Former Presidents Bush and Clinton will accompany President Bush to the funeral of Pope John Paul II, the White House announced Tuesday. The delegation will also include Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

WASHINGTON - Presidential adviser Karl Rove blamed the war in Iraq on Monday for dragging down President Bush's job approval ratings in public opinion polls. "People like this president," Rove said. "They're just sour right now on the war."

MILWAUKEE - Saying the nation is on the verge of technological breakthroughs that would "startle" most Americans, President Bush on Monday outlined his energy proposals to help wean the country off foreign oil.

ROME - President Bush and his two White House predecessors paid their respects to Pope John Paul II on Wednesday, viewing his remains and kneeling to pray in St. Peter's Basilica.

WASHINGTON - President Bush named top White House economic adviser Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board on Monday to succeed the near-legendary Alan Greenspan.

HONOLULU - President Bush has asked his defense and interior secretaries to look into designating Pearl Harbor and other historic World War II sites in the Pacific a national monument.

CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush on Tuesday condemned the deadly truck bombing at U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, calling the attackers "enemies of the civilized world."

EL PASO, Texas -- Five former prisoners of war spent the day with loved ones on Sunday while two of their comrades celebrated Easter with President Bush.

WASHINGTON - President Bush named seven people Friday to sit on an independent study commission to look into intelligence failures on Iraqi weapons, choosing former Democratic Sen. Charles S. Robb and retired judge Laurence Silberman, a Republican, to head the panel.

WASHINGTON - President Bush spared former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby from a 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak investigation Monday, delivering a political thunderbolt in the highly charged criminal case. Bush said the sentence was just too harsh.

WASHINGTON - One of the grimmest consequences for a president who wages war is coming face-to-face with men and women he sent into battle and who returned wounded.