Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

LOS ANGELES — Michael Hastings, an aggressive and iconoclastic journalist whose reporting exposed the vagaries of the war in Iraq and helped bring down the top U.S. general in Afghanistan, died early Tuesday in a car crash in Los Angeles, according to two of his employers. He was 33.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Houston's Astrodome stadium, New York's old Pan Am Worldport Terminal at Kennedy Airport and Montana's one-room schoolhouses are joining a list of the nation's most endangered historic places.

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Wednesday:

BOSTON — One of James “Whitey” Bulger’s closest associates implicated the crime boss Tuesday in a string of murders connected to their gang’s failed effort to skim hundreds of thousands of dollars from the gambling businesses once operated by the World Jai Alai company in Florida and Connecticut.

NEW YORK — Danny Brucker, an oval-shaped man wearing black horn-rimmed glasses and a harried look, stared at the students circling him.

OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The day started out with promising news: A state police cadaver dog picked up a scent Tuesday morning as FBI agents combed a grassy field in Oakland Township in search of Jimmy Hoffa’s body.

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — A lawyer for the International Committee of the Red Cross on Tuesday urged a military judge not to order release of its confidential communications with the Pentagon about Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other captives accused of perpetrating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The latest possible resting place of Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa is an overgrown farm field where the normal calm of chirping crickets is being drowned out by a beeping backhoe, the chop of an overhead news helicopter and the bustle of reporters and onlookers.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — A former Playboy Playmate has admitted helping her Canadian boyfriend after he illegally entered the United States in northern New York last summer.

LOS ANGELES — Edward Snowden may represent the archetypal leaker of the Internet age — a tech savant who justifies his civil disobedience as a righteous rebuttal to the big institutions he believes have intruded too far into ordinary people’s lives.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman who worked as a stunt double for Angelina Jolie has sued Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. in Los Angeles, claiming she's a victim of a phone hacking scheme to obtain information about the actress.

NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks has a new way to wake up its customers: showing the calories in its drinks.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — In an accelerated election for a new U.S. senator from New Jersey, the Democratic field is Cory Booker vs. everyone else.

OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The FBI saw enough merit in a reputed Mafia captain's tip to once again break out the digging equipment to search for the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, last seen alive before a lunch meeting with two mobsters nearly 40 years ago.

NEW YORK (AP) — Katy Perry "goes there" with Vogue about two of her high-profile relationships in the magazine's July cover story.

NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch meticulously planned his own funeral, but his tombstone has the wrong birth date.

Visiting the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., would be a dream for any aspiring player. But also swinging a bat in the famed city? That’s quite a combination.

Some say a father living in the home is not necessary. As for me, I can’t imagine growing up without one. Even though he’s been gone for two decades, I always think of him at this time of year.

(NewsUSA) - All those monster hurricanes and tornados we've been experiencing have apparently spooked homeowners worse than just about any disaster film Hollywood ever produced.

With a gun pointed at his chest, Juan Ayala quickly stuffed the bag with cash and cellphones. As he grabbed the phones one by one from the storage room shelves in the back of a Galt AT&T store, the gunman became increasingly anxious.

Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist, was found guilty of three counts of murder for killing three babies who survived his botched abortion procedures. His staff said that hundreds of babies met the same fate and, believe it or not, babies at 30 or more weeks were aborted.

(BPT) - The residential housing market is heating up, but before you post that for-sale sign, consider making upgrades that add style and value to your home. With many buyers seeking wood floors, kitchen upgrades and other add-ons, it’s important for homeowners to highlight these features so their property stands out from the competition in today’s market.

The Lodi Reds 12-and-under baseball team won two games in bracket play before being eliminated on Wednesday at the Dreams Park in Cooperstown, N.Y.

The Lodi Reds 12-and-under baseball team finished pool play by splitting two games on Tuesday at Cooperstown Dreams Park in Cooperstown, N.Y.