TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Time Warner says a new services center in

Tampa will add 500 new jobs to the area.

     The telecommunications company says Tampa was chosen for the

shared services facility over 59 other locations, including in

Florida, Georgia and New York. Time Warner made the announcement

Tuesday.

     The company says it is now narrowing down its search for space

in the Tampa area and is expected to announce a location in the

next few weeks.

MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Ophelia is moving west over the

Atlantic, while a new tropical depression has formed in the Pacific

south of Mexico.

     Ophelia has maximum sustained winds early Wednesday near 45 mph

(75 kph) with some gradual strengthening possible during the next

day or so.

     Ophelia is centered about 1,370 miles (2,205 kilometers) east of

the Leeward Islands and is moving west near 13 mph (20 kph).

  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A new poll shows Florida Republican

Gov. Rick Scott still burdened with a low standing among the

state's voters. Voters were split evenly when asked if they liked

the new governor as a person. However, 50 percent said they

disapproved of the job he's doing compared to 37 percent who gave

him a favorable job rating.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The two American hikers held in Iran are

being handed over to Swiss diplomats. Because a $1 million

bail-for-release deal was approved by the courts today, Shane Bauer

and Josh Fattal will avoid having to serve the rest of an eight

year prison sentence after being convicted of spying last month.

They were arrested along the Iran-Iraq border in July 2009.

     NEW YORK (AP) - President Barack Obama will address the U.N.

General Assembly today, in a public push to get the Palestinians to

back away from their bid to become a full U.N. member and win

recognition of Palestinian statehood. Obama is to meet privately

today with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime

Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

     WASHINGTON (AP) - Markets around the world are waiting to hear

what the Federal Reserve will do to help boost a slumping U.S.

economy and lower unemployment. Many economists believe the Fed

will announce today that it'll shift money from short-term

securities and into longer-term holdings to lower Treasury yields

further and reduce rates on mortgages and other consumer and

business loans.

     ATLANTA (AP) - Protests and vigils are planned today as Georgia

officials prepare for the execution of Troy Davis. Davis has said

he's innocent in the 1989 killing of an off-duty police officer,

and his lawyers say their client would take a polygraph test if the

pardons board would consider the results. The execution is set for

tonight.

     PANGRIO, Pakistan (AP) - A family in southern Pakistan was able

to rescue their much-loved grandmother from deadly flooding with

the help of a cooking pot. Ali Ahmed and three other relatives

placed the more than 100-year-old grandmother in the large metal

cooking pot and held onto her as they swam for several hours

through driving rain. Floods in that region alone have killed more

than 220 people.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Time Warner says a new services center in

Tampa will add 500 new jobs to the area.

     The telecommunications company says Tampa was chosen for the

shared services facility over 59 other locations, including in

Florida, Georgia and New York. Time Warner made the announcement

Tuesday.

     The company says it is now narrowing down its search for space

in the Tampa area and is expected to announce a location in the

next few weeks.

MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Ophelia is moving west over the

Atlantic, while a new tropical depression has formed in the Pacific

south of Mexico.

     Ophelia has maximum sustained winds early Wednesday near 45 mph

(75 kph) with some gradual strengthening possible during the next

day or so.

     Ophelia is centered about 1,370 miles (2,205 kilometers) east of

the Leeward Islands and is moving west near 13 mph (20 kph).

  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A new poll shows Florida Republican

Gov. Rick Scott still burdened with a low standing among the

state's voters. Voters were split evenly when asked if they liked

the new governor as a person. However, 50 percent said they

disapproved of the job he's doing compared to 37 percent who gave

him a favorable job rating.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Freedom is near for two American men who've

spent more than two years in an Iranian prison. The attorney

representing Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal says Iran's courts have

approved a $1 million bail arrangement, clearing the way for their

release. The two were convicted of spying after being arrested

along Iran's border with Iraq. They deny the charges.

     UNITED NATIONS (AP) - President Barack Obama and French

President Nicolas Sarkozy (sar-koh-ZEE') plan to urge the

Palestinians to hold off on their pitch for U.N. membership.

Instead, they are pushing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to

settle for upgraded status and move toward new talks with Israel.

Sarkozy and Obama are scheduled to speak at the opening session of

the U.N. General Assembly today.

     WASHINGTON (AP) - Investors around the globe are watching to see

whether the Federal Reserve makes any moves to stimulate the U.S.

economy today. Fed policymakers are wrapping up a two-day meeting,

and most economists are expecting they'll shift money out of

short-term securities into longer-term holdings. That could lower

Treasury yields and push rates on mortgages and other loans down

too.

     ATLANTA (AP) - Two high-profile executions are scheduled today.

Vigils are planned outside Georgia's death chamber where Troy Davis

is to be put to death at 7 p.m. for the killing of a Savannah

police officer. Davis maintains his innocence. And in Texas,

Lawrence Russell Brewer is scheduled to die for the dragging death

of a black man. James Byrd Jr. was chained to the back of a pickup

truck and dragged for nearly 3 miles.

     LOS ANGELES (AP) - A new study says when medical marijuana

dispensaries in the Los Angeles area closed temporarily last year,

crime rates in surrounding neighborhoods went up. Law enforcement

agencies have argued that the stores are magnets for crime, but the

report by the nonprofit RAND Corp. finds crime increased about 60

percent within three blocks of closed dispensaries compared to open

ones.