AP - Two people were killed and seven injured during a shooting Friday night in a residential area in northwest Miami, authorities said.

AP - Health officials say the death of a Minnesota woman has been linked to the nationwide salmonella outbreak and now the infection may have contributed to seven deaths.

AP - About 400 supporters gathered Friday night outside City Hall to urge Portland's mayor to stay on the job despite an intensifying political storm over his sexual relationship with a legislative intern nearly four years ago.

AP - Governors across the nation are seeking significant concessions from public employee unions in hopes of helping to balance their teetering budgets during the economic downturn.

AP - To food guru Alice Waters, change tastes like lamb shoulder braised in white wine and root vegetables with bay leaves, red peas, fried rosemary and garlic.

AP - Freedom looms for a mysterious terrorist who plotted an audacious attack in New York City in 1973.

AP - Following a brief, tortuous foray into the public spotlight, Caroline Kennedy has retreated back into privacy. And if there's one thing on which political spectators agree, it's that she is unlikely to rush to repeat the experience.

AP - Officials warned of a continuing fire threat created by high wind and dry weather Saturday across Texas, where wildfires had destroyed six houses, killed a man and blackened more than 4,500 acres of grassland.

AP - New York's new senator-designate Kirsten Gillibrand has started a statewide get-to-know-you tour with a visit to the Rev. Al Sharpton's headquarters in Harlem.

AP - In ball gowns, blue jeans and bikinis, 52 young women were set to compete for the Miss America 2009 title, capping a mini-reality series on pageant prep work and a week of preliminary competition.

AP - Authorities in Texas say an 11-year-old girl has been run over by a train that severed one of her legs and seriously injured the other.

AP - Debi Joy Olson freely admits that she stalked her ex-husband across the country, then stabbed him to death last summer at a mall in Davenport.

AP - Juanita Smallwood Osborne, who became one of the first living organ donors when she gave a kidney to her ailing son in the mid-1960s, has died at 88.

AP - A moderate earthquake has rattled Alaska's Cook Inlet southwest of Anchorage but there have been no reports of damage.

AP - The mother of infamous Branch Davidian sect leader David Koresh has been stabbed to death, and Koresh's aunt was in custody Saturday.

AP - Three state highway workers cleaning up litter picked up an abandoned tire — and found about $100,000 inside.

AP - Justice might be blind, but apparently it likes good rhythm.

AP - Democratic insiders say the selection of Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand to fill New York's vacant U.S. Senate seat showed the pivotal influence of senior Sen. Charles Schumer.

AP - Who loves Lucy? Far fewer people than a Seattle science center hoped when officials paid millions to show the fossil remains of one of the earliest known human ancestors.

AP - It's the 21 Club for the 21st Century.

AP - Just a case of plumb luck.

AP - High wind and dry weather Saturday allowed wildfires to continue burning across Texas, where fires have destroyed six houses, killed a man and blackened about 6,200 acres of grassland.

AP - A husband and wife were sentenced to prison for the deaths of two of their children in a house fire, which was sparked by a candle after money relatives loaned them to restore utilities was used to buy drugs.