AP - After reporting his 6-year-old daughter missing earlier this week, Aaron Thompson went on television to plead with the public for help.

AP - Tropical Storm Gamma pounded Belize and Honduras with heavy rain, killing at least two people, on a path that could threaten South Florida next week.

AP - The seven winners of a $315 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot have emerged after three days of anonymity to talk about their plans for all that money.

AP - Daniel Alvarado said he was kidnapped by government agents in El Salvador, hung blindfolded from a ceiling, shocked with electrical wires and repeatedly beaten. More than two decades later, a federal jury in Tennessee has held a former Salvadoran Army colonel responsible for the torture.

AP - An 18-year-old gunned down on his way home from work had been honored by People magazine this past summer as an outstanding father.

AP - A city health official has apologized to the relatives of a woman whose body sat unidentified in the medical examiner's office for more than two years.

AP - The clacking old streetcars that traveled up and down St. Charles Avenue for the past 170 years and their shiny new red counterparts on Canal Street will be out of service for months, maybe a year or more, because of Hurricane Katrina.

AP - There'll be no last-minute shopping for turkeys or trimmings on Thanksgiving Day in Massachusetts.

AP - Jack Kevorkian's attorney is asking Michigan's governor and parole board for a third time to pardon the 77-year-old assisted-suicide advocate or commute his sentence.

AP - Ancient live oak trees uprooted in Mississippi by Hurricane Katrina are going to escape being turned into wood chips, instead being used to restore what is believed to be the world's last wooden whaling ship.

AP - The Republican-controlled House spurned calls for an immediate pullout of troops from Iraq in a vote hastily arranged by the GOP that Democrats vociferously denounced as politically motivated.

AP - After spending scorching August days with hundreds of war protesters at her makeshift camp near President Bush's Crawford ranch, Cindy Sheehan slipped away each night to her tent or RV for a few quiet moments on her laptop.

AP - Federal officials say the arrest of 125 workers at a construction site for a new Wal-Mart distribution center should serve as a warning to employers who hire illegal immigrants.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two improvised bombs killed five U.S. army soldiers patrolling near the Iraqi town of Baiji on Saturday, and wounded another five, the U.S. military said.

SAN QUENTIN, California (Reuters) - Rapper Snoop Dogg, once a member of the Crips gang, called on Saturday for authorities to spare Stanley 'Tookie' Williams, the gang's co-founder, as hundreds gathered outside the prison to protest against his planned execution next month.

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - The U.S. government must extend its December 1 deadline to stop paying hotel bills for many victims of Hurricane Katrina and come up with a proper plan for people to return home, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said on Saturday.

AP - Aided by an ocean breeze, firefighters on Saturday began to get the upper hand on a 3,700-acre wildfire burning in the steep hills above this picturesque oceanfront city.

AP - A hunter was fatally shot by a colleague, and a juvenile accidentally shot himself Saturday as Wisconsin's deer hunting season opened amid racial tensions stemming from last year's deadly attack on a group of hunters.