AP - A former elementary school dance teacher was sentenced to two years of house arrest early Saturday for speeding away after her car hit and killed two young brothers last year.

AP - A federal judge is contemplating whether the mandatory teaching of "intelligent design" improperly promotes religion in schools, after the historic evolution trial drew to a close.

AP - Harris County officials blamed "100 percent human error" for the escape of inmate Charles Victor Thompson as jurors and his victims' relatives worried the convicted killer would come after them.

AP - Jurors and victims' relatives fear they might be targets of a death row inmate who freed himself from handcuffs and walked out of a county jail in civilian clothes.

AP - Deep in the muck and mold that was Greg Herman's home in Gulfport, a volunteer church crew works to clear his property in preparation for rebuilding. In Biloxi, Peggy Gibson's small home stands ready for contractors, if she can find the money.

AP - Deep in the muck and mold that was Greg Herman's home, a volunteer church crew works to clear his property in preparation for rebuilding. Closer to downtown, Peggy Gibson's small home stands ready for contractors, if she can find the money.

AP - It's called Trestles. It means surfing. For decades the surf break with the odd name south of here has been legend, one that wave riders say is a creation of natural interactions between land and ocean that make it one of the best — if not the best — on the nation's coastline.

AP - A small jet crashed Saturday at one of the city's airports after being instructed to take off quickly because of an incoming airliner. Both people on the jet were killed.

AP - John Wagner was 5 when he killed his first deer with one shot from a .223-caliber rifle. He is now standing in the living room of his family home and recalling with mounting excitement how last December he trained the cross hairs on the 75-pound doe as she paused beneath a tree house where he and his father waited.

AP - Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, took their royal tour of the United States to northern California on Saturday, examining local produce at a market and lunching with locals at an organic farm near San Francisco.

AP - The search for a Texas death row inmate who brazenly escaped from the Harris County Jail has become a nationwide manhunt, officials said Saturday.

AP - Undoubtedly, there would be tumult — likely roiling every statehouse in the nation. Beyond that, little is certain about what would unfold if the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the divisive 1973 decision establishing a woman's right to have an abortion.

AP - Warped wooden floors and ruined desks have been stripped out of Xavier University's main campus building. Its 4,000 students are scattered across the nation. Half the faculty and staff have been laid off.

AP - The search for a Texas death row inmate who brazenly escaped from the Harris County Jail has become a nationwide manhunt, officials said Saturday.

AP - Struggling with a huge post-hurricane deficit, Gov. Kathleen Blanco slashed state spending by $431 million Saturday, but even with the cuts, Louisiana still faces a budget shortfall of about half a billion dollars.

AP - Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, examined produce at a farmers market and mingled with locals at an organic farm near San Francisco on Saturday as their U.S. tour moved to California.

AP - Natalee Holloway's mother said Saturday that prosecutors in Aruba want to interview her daughter's former classmates in Alabama about the teenager's disappearance.