AP - Two small planes carrying a total of eight people crashed in separate incidents off the coast of Florida, authorities said. No survivors had been found by late Saturday.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Iggy Pop marked his 60th birthday on Saturday just like any other respectable senior citizen would.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The beloved Gibson Les Paul guitar of U2's The Edge fetched $240,000 and Bono's sunglasses pulled in $20,000 at an auction on Saturday to benefit musicians who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Barry Bonds hit his 739th career home run and Barry Zito pitched 7 1/3 scoreless innings on Saturday to lead the San Francisco Giants to a 1-0 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks.

AP - A tornado ripped up farmsteads in western Nebraska and injured several people as thunderstorms rippled across the Plains.

AP - A jury awarded $9 million to a black man who suffered permanent brain damage after being beaten and dumped in a field by four white men in 2003.

AP - Downed power lines, flattened houses and roads littered with debris kept many residents from returning to their homes Sunday in this rural Panhandle town hit hard by what appeared to be a group of tornadoes.

AP - A convicted sex offender insisted on the witness stand Sunday that he was telling the truth and denied raping two teenage girls in an underground room he built behind his home.

AP - For the first time, the faces of students at the Turner County High School prom were both white and black.

AP - Mayor John Fetterman worked alongside a team of volunteers pulling broken furniture and other debris out of an abandoned church, its ceilings sagging and its belfry thick with pigeon droppings.

AP - The column in the student newspaper seemed innocent enough: advocating tolerance for people 'different than you.'

AP - A sense of humor helps, Lauren Terrazzano says, when you're dying of cancer.

AP - Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho fired enough shots to wound his 32 victims more than 100 times before killing himself with a bullet to his head, a medical examiner said Sunday.

AP - Roberta Perry has tried it all to lose the pounds — organized diet programs, prescription pills, psychotherapy, even hypnosis.

AP - The companies that grew, processed and marketed contaminated spinach that led to a nationwide E. coli outbreak last year have settled lawsuits in the deaths of three women.

AP - A somber crowd watched as six jets flew overhead in formation at an air show where a Navy Blue Angel pilot died in a crash the day before.

AP - Still grieving and increasingly wary of the media spotlight, Virginia Tech students returned to their beleaguered campus Sunday, preparing to salvage the final weeks of a semester eclipsed by violence.

AP - Driving into the most congested half of Manhattan could become an expensive privilege under a wide-ranging city program unveiled Sunday to cope with the booming population and ease stress on the environment.

AP - Korean Americans in the community where Seung-Hui Cho grew up are still reeling from the shock of learning that the Virginia Tech gunman was one of their own. But many say Cho was a stranger even among the tight-knit families who were his neighbors.

AP - Even as a young boy, Navy Blue Angels Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Davis was intrigued by speed.

AP - When Andy Koch last saw Seung-Hui Cho in a dining hall a week ago, his former suitemate pretended he didn't see him and simply walked the other way.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Barry Bonds smacked his 740th career home run to move within 15 of all-time leader Hank Aaron as the San Francisco Giants beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 2-1 on Sunday.