AP - The case against a Kentucky high school football coach charged with reckless homicide in the death of a player who collapsed during a broiling summer practice — the teen's temperature reaching 107 degrees — is a rare one.

AP - Illinois' embattled but defiant governor turned to the history books to describe the emotional strain on him and his family, comparing his arrest last month to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

AP - A barber accused of killing a homeless man near his work last year by dousing him with a flammable liquid and setting him ablaze was arrested Thursday, police said.

AP - In a room where farmers in camouflage baseball caps and John Deere jackets mix with women in head scarves, Larry Gardner is scolding himself for forgetting Ramadan last year.

AP - Firefighters are battling a wildfire in western Texas that has destroyed seven homes and forced an unknown number of residents to evacuate.

AP - Trees in old growth forests across the West are dying at a small, but increasing rate that scientists conclude is probably caused by longer and hotter summers from a changing climate.

AP - A 5,800-acre wildfire destroyed eight homes and forced the evacuation others in a rural area west of Dallas, authorities said Friday.

AP - Investigators are seeking computer and cell phone records and diaries as they try to figure out why a Virginia Tech student allegedly used a kitchen knife to decapitate a female student in a campus coffee shop.

AP - Authorities in Missouri say a man fathered four children with his teenage daughter and killed at least one of the children.

AP - Former New York state Senate leader Joseph Bruno has been indicted on federal corruption charges.

AP - A judge on Friday ordered four life sentences for an honor student and former Boy Scout who shot his parents and brothers to death, then went to a friend's house to play video games.

AP - Divers have started fastening rigging to the left engine of the US Airways plane in preparation for lifting it from the murky waters of the Hudson River.

AP - When US Airways Flight 1549 splashed down in the icy Hudson River, Mike Berkwits was too busy getting his wife off the slowly sinking plane and out of the swift-moving water to worry about dying.

AP - A three-judge panel in Cleveland has ruled a mother is not guilty by reason of insanity in the drowning deaths of her two young daughters in a bathtub.

AP - Timothy Cook needed help fast: His home was on the brink of foreclosure, and the six relatives and friends who lived with him were at risk of being put on the street during the coldest weather in years.

AP - Rod Blagojevich's lead attorney says he plans to resign from the Illinois governor's criminal case.

AP - A teenager working part-time at an ice cream parlor in 1967, Sharron Diane Crawford Smith shot two co-workers in the head after they mocked her for being lesbian, a terrible secret at the time.

AP - A man suspected of fathering four children with his teenage daughter faces charges of killing at least one after human remains were discovered at the rural home where the family once lived, authorities said Friday.

AP - A Georgia peanut butter plant at the center of a probe of a nationwide salmonella outbreak has laid off most of its roughly 50 workers.

AP - A wildfire destroyed six homes and forced the evacuation of others in a rural area west of Dallas, authorities said Friday.

AP - Football players know them as 'gassers' — sprints up and down the field to build stamina.

AP - The battered, twisted left engine of the US Airways plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River was recovered Friday, after an eight-day struggle to find the wreckage and pull it from the murky water.

AP - The melodic strains of a violin that emanated Friday from a lobby at Barnes-Jewish Hospital carried the gratitude of a former patient who nearly lost the ability to play the instrument.

AP - A soldier found dead last summer complained about the price of beer and got in a fight at a bar before seven members of his own unit punched, choked and restrained him, a paratrooper testified at a hearing Friday.

AP - A Virginia Tech graduate student accused of beheading a fellow student displayed erratic and standoffish behavior in the months before the attack on campus this week, his landlord said Friday.

AP - A mother charged with aggravated murder in the bathtub drownings of her two daughters was found not guilty by reason of insanity Friday.

AP - A handful of dolphins in a group of 16 living in an icy New Jersey river since the summer have left for open water, witnesses said.

AP - An Indiana financial adviser accused of trying to fake his death in a plane crash said he's been under psychiatric care and claims not to recall the events of the day he bailed out, a newspaper reported Friday.

AP - A lawyer for a man accused of stabbing four people during a 13-hour rampage in 2006 told jurors Friday that his client was mentally ill and not responsible for his actions.

AP - Before a 12-year-old boy and his younger sister tried to hike 10 miles in the snow on Christmas Day, their father offered them a single caution and then stayed behind to free his car from a snowdrift, the boy testified Friday.

AP - A former mental hospital psychologist who said he became interested in child pornography while treating sex offenders was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison.