AP - A day after it received hoax mailings containing a white powder, the Mormon church on Friday blamed opponents of California's gay marriage ban for recent 'attacks' while an allied group condemned 'acts of domestic terrorism against our supporters.'

AP - As three major U.S. cities asked the federal government for a slice of the $700 billion bailout plan, other cities were considering whether that was the right move for them.

AP - Police were searching Saturday for a disgruntled engineer who allegedly gunned down three people at his former office building in Santa Clara a day earlier.

AP - The nation's oldest private, historically black university is cutting jobs and reducing salaries to close a $2.8 million budget shortfall.

AP - Fire officials in Los Angeles say a large mobile home park has suffered major damage from the fast-moving wildfire that has destroyed dozens of buildings in the Sylmar area.

AP - A cluster of strong thunderstorms swept across central North Carolina early Saturday and spawned tornadoes, killing two people. A child was also missing.

AP - Advanced drilling techniques that blast millions of gallons of water into 400-million-year-old shale formations a mile underground are opening up 'unconventional' gas fields touted as a key to the nation's energy future.

AP - The conservative Diocese of Fort Worth is splitting from the Episcopal Church in a long-running debate over how to interpret the Bible.

AP - Dark clouds tumbled overhead on that afternoon 30 years ago, in the last hours of the congressman's mission deep in the jungle of Guyana.

AP - Prosecutors in Kansas are seeking a life sentence for a man who killed his pregnant ex-wife, her unborn child and the woman's 8-month-old daughter.

AP - Gay rights supporters in the state where same-sex couples first exchanged wedding vows gathered Saturday to protest the California vote that banned gay marriage there and to urge supporters not to quit the fight for the right to wed.

AP - Fire officials in Southern California say a wildfire has broken out in Orange County and high wind is pushing flames toward a subdivision.

AP - Most of the 200 patients were asleep when the wind-driven wildfire surrounded the Olive View-UCLA Medical Center.

AP - As a tornado ripped through his North Carolina neighborhood, Curt Jarnigan huddled in his bathroom, praying for the raging winds to spare him.

AP - A stampede of opposition is growing over a proposal by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to kill or allow unrestricted sale of wild horses captured from western public land because of budget constraints.

AP - Police conducted a manhunt Saturday for a disgruntled engineer who allegedly gunned down three people at his former office building in Santa Clara.

AP - Gunfire erupted in the lobby of the storied Waldorf-Astoria Hotel during a brazen robbery attempt Saturday at an adjacent jewelry store, wounding a security guard and sending guests diving for cover.

AP - Climbing Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro is no weekend hike, and the 'Today' show's Ann Curry was feeling it on Saturday.

AP - A Nebraska lawmaker with an important role in changing the state's safe-haven statute says the Legislature might be asked to do more than put an age limit in the law that has led to the abandonment of nearly three dozen children.

AP - Fire Capt. Andrew Ruiz and his crew tried to save scores of mobile homes at Oakridge Park early Saturday morning. After daybreak, amid the wreckage and ashes, just one was left.

AP - An engineer who police said fatally shot three former co-workers at a Silicon Valley high-tech company was arrested Saturday after a daylong manhunt.

AP - An inquisitive Asian elephant known for being the largest of its kind born in captivity in the United States died at the Houston Zoo this week after suddenly contracting an incurable disease.

AP - Southern Californians endured a third day of destruction Saturday as wind-blasted wildfires torched hundreds of mobile homes and mansions, forced tens of thousands of people to flee and shut down major freeways.