AP - A Montana teenager is accused of killing another teen and injuring two others in a shooting that police say stemmed from an argument over a girl.

AP - The man accused of shooting a Kansas abortion provider to death as he handed out programs at a Sunday church service said he appreciates the prayers said for him and his family in the wake of his arrest.

AP - The recession is hitting home for inmates, too: Some cash-strapped states are taking aim at prison menus.

AP - Craigslist has eliminated its criticized 'erotic section' and pledged to screen entries to its replacement, but Connecticut's attorney general asks whether it's enough following the case of a husband accused of using the site to solicit his wife's rape.

AP - Sherry Buchanan was clinging to hope that her missing 5-year-old granddaughter was still alive, despite the chilling discovery of a child's body near a river in southeast Michigan.

AP - Charles Donald Albury, co-pilot of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, has died after years of congestive heart failure. He was 88.

AP - Scientists at one of Utah's major new dinosaur quarries have found 60 to 70 new bones this spring, including what appears to be a 20-foot-long neck bone discovered this week.

AP - An American man pleaded guilty and was sentenced Friday for the manslaughter of his wife, who drowned during their honeymoon scuba diving trip in Australia. Her body was found on the ocean floor.

AP - America's highways are growing green: Grasses, shrubs and wildflowers are exploding across median strips and road shoulders this summer as shrinking maintenance budgets prompt mowing cutbacks in many states.

AP - Another hurricane season is the last thing Galveston wants to think about after last year's devastation from Hurricane Ike.

AP - A New York City woman says her father apparently lay dead for weeks in a minivan while police repeatedly left parking tickets on the vehicle.

AP - The federal government backtracked Friday and decided not to seize the western Pennsylvania property needed to build a Flight 93 memorial, saying instead it would renew negotiations with landowners.

AP - As a soldier in World War II, William Dabney was used to the military's segregated quarters. An African-American, he had no contact with his white counterparts.

AP - A convicted arsonist was sentenced to death Friday for setting a Southern California wildfire that killed five federal firefighters struggling to defend a rural home from raging, wind-driven flames.

AP - The man accused of killing an Army private outside an Arkansas recruiting center never suffered torture or beatings while jailed on an immigration violation in Yemen, an official with the country's embassy said Friday.

AP - The New York Police Department is looking into futuristic technology that would allow officers' guns to recognize one another. It is aimed at avoiding the type of shooting that killed a plainclothes police officer in Harlem last week.

AP - A prominent group of religious scholars is calling for more blacks, Asians, Hispanics and American Indians to become teachers at theological schools.

AP - Video shot from an airplane and a helicopter helped authorities track nearly every move made by four men accused of plotting attacks on New York City synagogues and upstate New York military targets, a prosecutor said Friday.

AP - Police have made a fifth arrest in the slaying of an armored car guard during a robbery at a Wal-Mart store near Tacoma, Wash.

AP - A body discovered along a Michigan river appears to be a female roughly the same age as a 5-year-old girl who disappeared nearly two weeks ago, authorities said Friday.

AP - An Indiana money manger avoided trial in Florida by pleading guilty on Friday to federal charges of intentionally crashing a plane in a scheme to flee financial ruin by faking his death, but his legal troubles aren't over.

AP - Brryan Jackson has been left out of birthday party invitations and asked not to use water fountains. His daily routine at one point included 23 pills, three IV medications and two injections. But the toughest part of growing up with AIDS for him may be knowing how he got it.

AP - A North Carolina man who police say arranged on Craigslist for his wife to be raped by another man pleaded guilty last year to indecent exposure in Virginia.

AP - The New York Police Department is looking into adapting futuristic technology that would allow officers' guns to recognize one another in an effort to avoid the type of friendly fire that left a cop dead last week.

AP - A Cornell University graduate student from New Zealand has been charged with murdering his wife, whose body was found along a wooded trail in a state park with her throat slashed.

AP - Colleen Delsack is a 47-year-old single mother who can't seem to find a steady job, and she worries that her age may have something to do with it.

AP - A reputed Ku Klux Klansman will remain in prison after a federal appeals court ruled Friday that his conviction shouldn't have been thrown out in the kidnappings of two black teenagers who were slain in 1964.

AP - Two nuclear submarine sailors, including one assigned to help crewmates stay out of trouble, are accused of brutally beating a man, leaving him near death on a Portsmouth street and then trying to orchestrate a cover-up.

AP - A police chief said Friday he thinks officers were justified when they shot a 15-year-old girl suspected of robbing a store at gunpoint, comments that left the teen's relatives expressing outrage as they planned her funeral.

AP - Rachelle Spector will turn 29 next week, a pretty woman living alone in a 35-room Pyrenees-style castle while the lord of the manor — music producer Phil Spector — sits in prison.

AP - The nation's largest public utility plans to dispose of millions of tons of coal ash from a massive spill in Tennessee into a giant landfill in one of Alabama's poorest counties, state environmental officials said Friday.

AP - Abortion provider George Tiller felt safe inside the one place where he most openly shared his faith in God with others — the Kansas church to which he routinely tithed and served as an usher.

AP - The federal government will negotiate with landowners for one week in an attempt to get property needed to build a Flight 93 memorial without using eminent domain, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Friday.

AP - A day after murder charges were dropped in the racially charged dragging death of a black man in east Texas, both a former suspect and the victim's mother expressed outrage, for very different reasons.

AP - A black Southern Baptist pastor has asked his denomination to acknowledge the importance of President Barack Obama's election, despite the convention's opposition to many of his policies.

AP - The New York City Department of Correction is looking into an allegation that the man charged with breaking into police officer Omar Edwards' car was beaten by guards at the Rikers Island jail.

AP - A Kentucky man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of his disabled sister, whose mummified remains were found in the trunk of his car last year.

AP - Bernard Leon Barker, one of the five Watergate burglars whose break-in led to America's biggest political scandal, died Friday in suburban Miami. He was 92.

AP - Bank of America, Verizon, Chipotle and other companies have pulled advertising from a Sacramento radio station after talk show hosts referred to transgender people as 'freaks' with mental disorders.