AP - The ninth step of the 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous program calls on members to make amends with those they have harmed — unless doing so would cause further injury.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Film in New York and the world is at your fingertips: crew, equipment, actors.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mark Twain is best known for novels such as 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' and his witty commentary on late 19th Century and early 20th Century life.

AP - Fire fatalities have steadily declined in the U.S. since the late 1970s, thanks partly to improved building codes requiring safety measures such as sprinkler systems, multiple fire exits and fire-resistant construction materials.

AP - Ah, St. Patrick's Day in the city: the green stripe painted on Fifth Avenue, the echo of endless bagpipes, the annual March infighting among New York's Irish.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Few U.S. neighborhoods celebrate St. Patrick's Day with the fervor of South Boston, a fiercely proud, Irish-American enclave with powerful political connections and a history scarred by race riots and gangsters.

AP - A 300-foot stretch of an elevated railroad trestle destroyed by an intense fire could take weeks to repair, disrupting commuter and freight service in California's capital city, officials said Friday.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores said on Friday it has withdrawn its request to open a specialty bank after immense opposition from politicians, consumer groups and community banks hampered its application with U.S. bank regulators.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sane or not sane?

AP - Young gang members cornered an older teen who they suspected had covered up their group's graffiti, and a 14-year-old shot him and killed a 13-year-old bystander, police said.

AP - A man who reportedly jumped from a cruise ship off Florida's coast early Friday was rescued eight hours later by the Coast Guard.

AP - Police arrested a 7-year-old boy, handcuffed him and took his mug shot and fingerprints on a charge of riding a motorized dirt bike on a sidewalk.

AP - Two relatives of men who died inside the Sago Mine last year said the union's new theory about the explosion's cause provides answers they have long wanted.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White Americans continue to live longer than blacks but declines in black death rates from AIDS, homicide and injuries and, among black women, heart disease helped shrink the gap, researchers said on Friday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man jumped the fence at the White House on Friday and was quickly taken into custody, the Secret Service said.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Once the center of power, the desk of former Enron Corp. founder and chief executive officer Ken Lay is up for sale on eBay Inc..

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has withdrawn a request to open a specialty bank after immense opposition from politicians, consumer groups and community banks hampered its application with U.S. bank regulators.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The former chief operating officer of media company Hollinger International Inc. has agreed to pay $28.7 million to settle fraud charges, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Friday.

AP - The entire board of directors for the state's troubled youth prisons resigned Friday following weeks of criticism sparked by reports that agency workers covered up sex abuse of inmates.

AP - Grand jury deliberations in the case of a deadly 50-bullet police shooting dragged into a third day Friday, with the lawyer for the victim's family lashing out at the emergence of a last-minute witness who could end up helping the officers avoid charges.

AP - After Jon broke up with Carla, he forgave a half-million-dollar mortgage loan he had given her. He also may have paid her kids' tuition and helped her with other expenses.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police officers will find out on Monday whether they face criminal charges for firing 50 shots at three unarmed black men, killing one of them on his wedding day, prosecutors said on Friday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A car in President George W. Bush's motorcade was in a minor accident on Friday, but the president's vehicle was not involved and he continued to Camp David for the weekend, the White House said.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The murder trial of pioneering rock producer Phil Spector finally begins on Monday, more than four years after a B-movie actress was found shot to death at his castle-like mansion outside Los Angeles.

AP - Anderson, a little town in Alaska's interior, has no gas station, no grocery store and no traffic lights, but it does have plenty of woodsy land — and it's free to anyone willing to put down roots in the often-frozen ground.

AP - The entire board of directors for the state's troubled youth prisons resigned Friday following weeks of criticism sparked by reports that agency workers covered up sex abuse of inmates.

AP - A former trash company supervisor was convicted on Friday of murdering six women whose strangled bodies were found scattered around the area two decades ago.

AP - A man accused of stabbing his 11-month-old son with a kitchen knife and throwing him out a car window was arrested Friday, two days after fleeing the scene, police said.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Americans are putting an unusual strain on passport offices because of new U.S. rules requiring them to carry the documents for air travel to Canada, the Caribbean and Latin America.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The wife of murdered U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl said on Friday she remained determined to celebrate life even as the man who said he masterminded the September 11 attacks claimed responsibility for his death.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In California's bustling economy, immigrants can rise so fast their language skills may lag behind their buying power, which consumer advocates say landed many non-English speaking borrowers with subprime mortgages they did not want.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. companies that were found liable for creating a public nuisance by manufacturing lead paint took their case to Rhode Island's highest court on Friday after a judge rejected their bid for a new trial.

MIAMI (Reuters) - Three scuba divers died on Friday while exploring a sunken U.S. Navy ship off Florida's Key Largo, authorities said.

AP - Three of the five policemen whose 50-bullet barrage killed an unarmed man on his wedding day were indicted Friday in a case that heightened racial tensions and renewed allegations that the city's officers are too fast on the trigger.

AP - Thirteen-year-old Eli Rogatz applied months ago for a passport so that he could fly to Israel with his family for his bar mitzvah. To his family's great relief, it finally came through on Friday, with just days to spare.

AP - JetBlue canceled nearly three-fourths of all scheduled flights across the country Friday — most in the New York area — because of a winter storm on the East Coast. Aiming to avoid criticism about persistent delays and problems that followed a storm last month, the discount airline had canceled about 400 of its 550 flights by mid-afternoon.

AP - In a tragic twist to a familiar story, a teenager who had sex with his married 30-year-old teacher was fatally shot outside the woman's home, and authorities have charged the woman's husband.

AP - An Army Black Hawk helicopter that crashed last year in northern Iraq, killing all 12 aboard, does not appear to have been downed by enemy fire, according to a report obtained by The Associated Press.

AP - Neighbors of a slain 6-year-old boy are fuming over how a molester arrested in the child's abduction had been allowed to live in the same trailer park as the victim, just months after legislators passed one of the nation's toughest crackdowns on sex offenders.

AP - The woman accused of snatching a days-old infant from a hospital had scouted security measures there beforehand and also went to another maternity ward the day the baby was abducted, a prosecutor said Friday.

AP - A former trash company supervisor was convicted on Friday of murdering six women whose strangled bodies were found scattered around the area two decades ago.

AP - Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday that the families of two unarmed NYPD volunteers who died trying to stop a gunman are ineligible for police line-of-duty death benefits, but could qualify for more than $400,000 from other programs.

AP - A teenager who called a schoolmate 'fat penguin' and other derogatory names in front of other students for months committed misdemeanor stalking, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.

MIAMI (Reuters) - Three scuba divers died on Friday while exploring a sunken U.S. Navy ship off Florida's Key Largo, authorities said.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran CNN talk show host Larry King had surgery on Friday to clear an artery blockage but plans to return to work on Monday to interview U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama, the network said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - PepsiCo unit Frito-Lay is investigating a report that a Colorado boy found a dead mouse in a bag of potato chips that he bought in a school lunch line, a company spokesman said on Friday.

AP - Citing rampant problems of fraud and extortion, the State Department says it no longer recommends that Americans adopt children from Guatemala — the No. 2 source of orphans coming to the United States.

AP - Sleet, snow and freezing rain pelted the East Coast on Friday, dashing hopes that spring had arrived because temperatures had soared into the 60s and 70s two days earlier.

AP - A lawyer flying a stunt plane at an air show crashed and died Friday before a crowd of spectators, authorities said.

AP - A second day of searching for an 8-year-old boy missing since his grandfather's fishing boat plunged over a dam was unsuccessful Friday, and authorities conceded the outcome 'does not look very good.'