WASHINGTON (AP) — The lawyer for a Virginia couple that crashed this week's state dinner for India's prime minister says his clients "were cleared by the White House, to be there." He says more information will be forthcoming. The Secret Service acknowledges its officers failed to check whether the couple was on the guest list.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is dismissing an Israeli plan to halt new construction of West Bank settlements as insufficient, saying it won't be enough to restart peace talks. Abbas says Palestinians "can't accept the current Israeli government's concept for the negotiations." The Palestinian leader made the comments during his first visit to Venezuela.

UNDATED (AP) — A spokesman for Tiger Woods says the golfer is in good condition after being treated and released from a Florida hospital following an early morning one-car crash outside his home. Woods sustained facial cuts. Police say alcohol wasn't involved but the accident remains under investigation.

UNDATED (AP) — Newly released tapes reveal that after a Northwest Airlines jet overflew Minneapolis airport last month, air traffic controllers asked the pilots repeatedly for explanations about why they didn't heed radio calls. The pilot replied "cockpit distractions that's all I can say." The FAA has revoked the licenses of the pilots.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Bison have returned to Mexico for the first time since the 1800s, with Mexican authorities releasing 23 donated U.S. animals in northern Chihuahua state. Parts of northern Mexico once constituted the southern range for huge herds of the roaming bison before they were killed off.