AP - Wildfires flared up in drought-stricken southeast Georgia, destroying several buildings and forcing hundreds of fire-weary residents to leave their homes.

AP - The Rev. V. Gene Robinson became the Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop. Now, he and his partner want to be among the first gay couples in New Hampshire to officially unite under a soon-to-be-signed civil unions law.

AP - A few weeks ago he was helping out at a fish fry and playing with his kids. Now, John Tomkins is charged with being 'The Bishop,' the person federal authorities say mailed threatening letters and pipe bombs to financial institutions.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shopping for summer clothes to wear to work? Forget the tank tops and lose the flip-flops.

AP - The Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop and his partner want to be among the first gay couples in New Hampshire united under a soon-to-be-signed civil unions law.

AP - Storms packing winds strong enough to toss a police cruiser over a 3-foot-high fence spawned apparent tornadoes that leveled houses and downed power lines in several states.

AP - Former Gov. James E. McGreevey and his estranged wife went to divorce court on Friday in their first public meeting since he resigned and announced he was 'a gay American.'

AP - Storms packing winds strong enough to toss a police cruiser over a fence spawned apparent tornadoes that leveled houses and downed power lines in several states.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Texas has executed a man convicted of murdering an Amarillo couple in 1994 during an attempt to steal beer from their grocery store.

AP - Eleven Fort Drum soldiers burst into a fellow soldier's home and attacked him and his wife, kicking him repeatedly and punching her in the face, authorities said Friday.

AP - Prosecutors announced 14 additional felony charges Friday against a Chicago police officer whose videotaped beating of a female bartender made international headlines.

AP - A man accused of fatally stabbing his girlfriend's two young sons and sexually assaulting her daughter told police he was disciplining the boys over their chores and the situation escalated, police said Friday.

AP - An off-duty Chicago police officer who authorities say was videotaped beating a female bartender half his size faces 14 additional felony charges, prosecutors announced Friday.

AP - Former Gov. James E. McGreevey and his estranged wife went to divorce court on Friday where they were expected to have their first public meeting since he resigned and announced he was 'a gay American.'

AP - Brent Tenney says he feels pretty safe when he goes to class at the University of Utah, but he takes no chances. He brings a loaded 9 mm semiautomatic with him every day.

AP - A year ago, cranes at ground zero were idle. A cornerstone for the skyscraper that will replace the World Trade Center sat in the dirt, packed in plywood, and the entire project's future was in doubt.

AP - Eight members of a Marine Corps company involved in the fatal shooting of civilians during an ambush last month in Afghanistan were brought back to Camp Lejeune while an investigation continues, a base spokesman said Friday.

AP - A noted child psychiatrist pleaded not guilty Friday to charges he molested seven boys in his care, and his lawyer said the accusers had mistaken routine physical examinations for sexual abuse.

AP - A suspect in the mugging last month of a 101-year-old woman with a walker was arrested on Friday on drug charges, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

AP - Gov. Jon S. Corzine will forgo his state health insurance and spend hundreds of thousands of his own money to pay for his medical care from a serious car accident, a spokesman said Friday.

AP - A judge handling the contentious divorce of the nation's first openly gay governor and his estranged wife urged them on Friday to use 'common sense' during their split.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Menu Foods said on Friday that ChemNutra was wrong in implying that suspicious wheat gluten used in its pet food may have come from other suppliers, since it did not start having problems with tainted supplies until it starting working with ChemNutra.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc. said on Friday some batteries in its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook computers may have performance problems, but they do not pose a safety risk.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A former board member at the newspaper company once led by Conrad Black testified on Friday at the fallen media baron's fraud trial that she urged him to be 'little bit more humble' as criticism mounted of his management style.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Horror movies reflect the culture we live in and cannot be blamed for causing real life violence, said the slasher genre director of the Hollywood classic 'Halloween.'

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. airports planning to accommodate the Airbus A380 expect restrictions for other aircraft operating near the superjumbo that could increase ground delays for some flights, congressional researchers said on Friday.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. government has arbitrarily and capriciously sought to ease rules for foreign fisherman on 'dolphin-safe' tuna, a U.S. federal appeals court ruled on Friday in upholding current standards.

AP - Stumped in their search for a motive, authorities at Virginia Tech have sent out a questionnaire asking students for any information they may have about gunman Seung-Hui Cho and his first victim.

AP - Former state Sen. John Ford, a prominent member of a politically powerful family, was convicted Friday of accepting bribes in a statewide corruption investigation.

AP - A suspect in the mugging of a 101-year-old woman with a walker was arrested on Friday on drug charges, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The director of a new documentary about two September 11 widows who launched a campaign to help Afghan war widows says it's not a 'September 11 movie' and her aim is to counter U.S. public amnesia about Afghanistan.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - A leading U.S. health agency staged a war game this week to test its response to one of the worst health emergencies it could imagine -- an outbreak of avian flu on American soil.

AP - A police officer accused in the beating of a bartender is facing new charges after prosecutors said he threatened to plant drugs on bar employees and arrest customers for drunken driving to keep a videotape of the attack secret.

AP - Raids that resulted in the arrests of six alleged militia members and the seizure of hundreds of hand grenades and bullets were 'much ado about nothing,' a defense lawyer said Friday.

AP - Firefighters worked Friday to keep wildfires from spreading to miles of drought-stricken forest near the Okefenokee Swamp as most residents evacuated from more than 100 homes were allowed to return.

AP - The state's new method of electrocution — a single, sustained jolt instead of several shorter ones — could leave the condemned's heart beating well after the shock, backers and foes of the protocol say.

AP - On the night she accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape, a woman told a nurse she had been attacked, then told police it didn't happen before reversing herself again.

AP - A pharmacy erroneously made a drug 10 times more potent than intended, which killed three people who received it at an Oregon clinic, the state medical examiner said Friday.

AP - Allen Lee was on the verge of realizing a dream to become a Marine after signing enlistment papers this month. But one violent, profanity-laced English essay later, the 18-year-old's future with the Marine Corps appears to be over.

AP - Since Seung-Hui Cho killed himself after slaughtering 32 classmates and professors, busy investigators are not preparing a prosecution but simply seeking answers. And yet, nearly two weeks after his rampage at Virginia Tech, the student who signed himself with a question mark remains one.

AP - A two-year campaign to raise $30 million for a permanent memorial for the victims of Flight 93 has fallen far short of its goal, and organizers say they are shifting their strategy to close the gap.