AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A 27-year-old Austin man was arrested on Friday and charged with placing an unexploded bomb containing some 2,000 nails outside an abortion clinic in the state's capital.

AP - A middle school teacher instructed an eighth grader to urinate in a bottle in class instead of allowing him go to the bathroom, the boy and his mother said Friday.

AP - More than 142 years after a band of state militia volunteers massacred 150 sleeping Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in a misdirected act of vengeance, a memorial to the tragic event will officially open on Saturday.

AP - The family of a man being held in Ethiopia for alleged ties to Islamic militants is growing increasingly frustrated that he is still being detained despite reports that he would be released.

AP - A bus crash on Saturday injured 19 people, at least one critically, authorities said.

AP - The remains of a 3-year-old boy who died after his foster parents bound him in a blanket and packing tape and left him in a closet have yet to be claimed and buried, a prosecutor says.

CORPUS CHRISTI (Reuters) - A massive fire shut Gary Williams Energy Corp.'s 50,000 bpd refinery in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, but caused no injuries, the company said on Saturday.

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico (Reuters) - Actor James Doohan, who played the starship Enterprise's chief engineer Scotty on 'Star Trek,' finally made it to space on Saturday as a rocket with some of his ashes was launched in New Mexico.

AP - More than 142 years after a band of state militia volunteers massacred 150 sleeping Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in a misdirected act of vengeance, a memorial to the tragic event was officially dedicated Saturday.

AP - The high-speed automobile accident that critically injured Gov. Jon S. Corzine has focused attention on the practices of governors' official drivers across the nation.

AP - It started with a clogged dust mask that fell onto the desk of Jan Ramirez on the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001. A friend had used the paper mask to breathe while fleeing downtown Manhattan as the air was filled with grit and smoke from the World Trade Center towers.

AP - A first-time crack-cocaine conviction should mean a lower federal minimum sentence than under current guidelines, according to a judicial agency that has raised concerns about a disparity in punishment for people caught with crack or powder cocaine.

AP - On Halloween 2005, prosecutors say, Peter Braunstein dressed in full firefighting regalia — but his outfit had nothing to do with the holiday.

MIAMI (Reuters) - President Bush took fresh aim on Saturday at Cuba's communist government, calling it a 'cruel dictatorship' and predicting that democratic change was near.

SAN DIEGO, California (Reuters) - California Democrats gave Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton a warm if not overly effusive welcome on Saturday at their annual convention, with a few shouting out for an immediate end to the Iraq war.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yet another unique New York institution is set to disappear when the last riding stable in Manhattan closes its doors during the weekend.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Latin boy band Menudo is coming back, and scores of teenagers turned out on Saturday to audition at the last of four nationwide open calls in hopes of becoming the next Ricky Martin.

AP - A breeze on Saturday pushed a huge wildfire back toward the Okefenokee Swamp and away from U.S. 1, but the highway remained closed and homeowners were warned they might have to evacuate again.

AP - The high-speed automobile accident that critically injured Gov. Jon S. Corzine has focused attention on the practices of governors' official drivers across the nation.

AP - The Rev. Jesse Jackson and Mayor Ray Nagin led hundreds of marchers Saturday to the crumbling houses that still dominate the Lower 9th Ward to draw attention to the area's slow recovery from Hurricane Katrina.

AP - Howard University President H. Patrick Swygert says he will retire at the end of June 2008.

WYNNEWOOD, Oklahoma (Reuters) - A massive fire that shut Gary Williams Energy Corp.'s 50,000 barrel per day (bpd) refinery in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, continued to rage late on Saturday, raising a thick column of black smoke visible for 25 miles.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Inspectors for a federal oversight agency have found that seven of eight reconstruction projects in Iraq that the United States had declared successes were no longer operating as designed, The New York Times reported in Sunday editions.

AP - A few spot fires ignited Saturday afternoon across a highway from a massive wildfire and firefighters struggled to put them out before they could spread in the miles of tinder-dry forest beyond.

IRVING, Texas (Reuters) - Britain's Luke Donald endured an up-and-down third round at the Byron Nelson Championship on Saturday but emerged with a one-shot lead going into the final round of the $6.3 million event.

AP - Hundreds of immigrants and their supporters marched through a Mexican-American neighborhood on Saturday calling for lawmakers to create a far-reaching immigration policy that allows undocumented workers to keep their families intact.

AP - Former U.S. senator and presidential candidate Carol Moseley Braun suffered a broken wrist when a mugger tried to steal her purse, authorities said Saturday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Just $40 million of $854 million offered to the United States to help the Gulf Coast recover from Hurricane Katrina has been used so far, and most of the offered aid was never collected, the Washington Post reported in Sunday's editions.

AP - With rows of Afro-centric boutiques, cafes and soul food restaurants shaded by tall old trees, Leimert Park has become a serene enclave in the 15 years since a race riot tore apart its neighborhood in south-central Los Angeles.