AP - A teenager accused of gunning down his principal told detectives in a videotaped interview that he didn't mean to kill him but 'freaked out' when the principal tackled him in a school hallway.

AP - Bow-tied waiters will dish up bacon-and-cheese omelets and pecan waffles once again at the venerable Camellia Grill on Saturday, nearly 20 months since it was closed when the city fled Hurricane Katrina. The icon's return was seen as another sign of hope in New Orleans' slow recovery.

AP - Gov. Jon S. Corzine was breathing on his own again Friday after doctors removed a breathing tube he'd been using since he was critically injured in an April 12 high-speed crash, his spokesman said. Doctors removed the tube shortly before 12:30 p.m. Friday, spokesman Anthony Coley said.

AP - Vibrant and determined, Maxine Turner never was the type to cower under an umbrella. When rain struck during a Fourth of July celebration on the National Mall, others dove for cover. Maxine turned her face skyward and let the raindrops kiss her cheeks.

AP - A high school was evacuated Friday and a student was taken into custody after a small explosion outside the building, but no injuries or damage were reported, authorities said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pet food tainted with the chemical melamine was found in feed rations on a California hog farm and may show up on other U.S. farms, state and federal officials said on Friday.

AP - When Sgt. Tim Weiner volunteered to become an explosives ordnance disposal technician in 1991 he told his family it was one of the safest jobs in the military — how often did a stray bomb need disarming?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A California company is recalling about 107,943 pounds of frozen ground beef products due to possible contamination with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Agriculture Department said.

AP - A man fleeing security drowned early Saturday after he leaped over a railing into a moat surrounding a casino, authorities said. Police said the man ran away while being questioned about a fake identification card at the Isle of Capri casino.

AP - The first hints of trouble came with vague warnings from the outer reaches of the bureaucracy.

AP - A school board has taken the first steps to bar a former principal secretly videotaped having sex with one of his teachers from working at any Illinois school.

AP - When Sgt. Tim Weiner volunteered to become an explosives ordnance disposal technician in 1991 he told his family it was one of the safest jobs in the military — how often did a stray bomb need disarming?

AP - Mass public shootings have become such a part of American life in recent decades that the most dramatic of them can be evoked from the nation's collective memory in a word or two: Luby's. Jonesboro. Columbine.

AP - One of the many churches in this town founded as a colonial seaport has a sign reading 'Va. Tech Families We Are Praying For You.'

AP - It will be agonizing, emotional and draining. Most of all, it will be painful.

AP - The U.S. Border Patrol's push to expand the number of agents on the lookout for illegal crossings has some current and former agents worried that the pressure will lead to corner cutting and will jeopardize public safety.

AP - Gov. Chris Gregoire signed into law Saturday a measure to create domestic partnerships, giving gay and lesbian couples some of the same rights that come with marriage.

AP - A judge has again declared a mistrial after a jury deadlocked in the case of three men charged in a courthouse shooting.

AP - He's a veteran of long-distance sailing voyages in all kinds of weather. She's never sailed outside the Hudson River.

AP - War is what cadets train for at the nation's oldest private military academy.

AP - Bow-tied waiters are dishing up bacon-and-cheese omelets and pecan waffles once again at the venerable Camellia Grill, nearly 20 months after it was closed when the city fled Hurricane Katrina.

AP - Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire signed into law Saturday a measure to create domestic partnerships, giving gay and lesbian couples some of the same rights that come with marriage.

AP - A wildfire in southeast Georgia that has burned more than 70 square miles of forest was less than half a mile from the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, a forestry official said Saturday.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Thousands of shoppers packed more than two dozen gun shows across the United States on Saturday, as the domestic arms trade kept up a brisk pace after the worst shooting rampage in modern American history.

AP - He's a veteran of long-distance sailing voyages in all kinds of weather. She's never sailed outside the Hudson River.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago put on its green face this Earth Day weekend as Mayor Richard Daley opened the Green Festival on Saturday by boasting about the city's aggressive tree planting effort and other actions to clean up the environment.

AP - He's a veteran of long-distance sailing voyages in all kinds of weather. She's never sailed outside the Hudson River.

AP - The gunman in an apparent murder-suicide at the Johnson Space Center targeted a NASA worker he feared could get him fired, police said Saturday.

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - Federal District Judge George Howard, who came to national attention when he presided over the trials of President Bill Clinton's business partners in the Whitewater investigations, died on Saturday at his home in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. He was 82.

AP - A convicted sex offender accused of raping two teens in a dungeon-like space behind his home testified Saturday that he had sex with both of his accusers hours before the alleged crimes took place.