AP - A Kansas City man has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for killing a man during a melee that erupted when someone threw a bottle of hot sauce.

AP - One of the five men charged in the slaying of Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor is seeking to withdraw his guilty plea.

AP - The federal government on Friday will significantly expand the critical habitat for endangered Hawaiian monk seals to include beaches and waters of the main Hawaiian Islands, officials said.

AP - A former mortuary worker convicted of carving up and selling cadavers donated to the University of California at Los Angeles' medical school was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday and ordered to pay more than $1.7 million.

AP - A suburban Atlanta elementary school principal has resigned and the assistant principal has been reassigned because they changed answers on fifth-grade standardized tests to improve scores and help the school meet federal achievement standards, officials said Thursday.

AP - California authorities say a man wanted on a murder warrant in Kansas is in critical condition with a self-inflicted gunshot wound after he barricaded himself inside a motel room.

AP - For years, the British Columbia capital of Victoria has dumped tens of millions of gallons of raw sewage every day into the waters separating Washington state and Vancouver Island.

AP - Former President George H.W. Bush is poised to celebrate his 85th birthday by making a parachute jump in Maine, but the weather could dampen his plans.

AP - Rep. Patrick Kennedy, who has struggled with depression, alcoholism and addiction for much of his life, said Friday that he has checked into a medical facility for treatment.

AP - Gary Revell gets up every morning before sunrise, heads into the woods and grunts.

AP - The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will reopen after a day of mourning for a guard authorities say was killed in an attack by a rifle-toting white supremacist.

AP - The Department of Energy has decided to move forward on a stalled futuristic coal-burning power plant in central Illinois that languished under the previous administration.

AP - Gary Revell gets up every morning before sunrise, heads into the woods and grunts.

AP - The FBI was scrambling.

AP - The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has reopened after a day of mourning for a guard authorities say was killed in an attack by a rifle-toting white supremacist.

AP - A German man who called himself Clark Rockefeller and spun fantastic stories about himself during three decades in the United States was convicted Friday of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter.

AP - Authorities have confirmed three cases of swine flu at Miami's Krome immigration detention center.

AP - Nearly 5,000 new U.S. swine flu cases have been reported in the last week, due partly to its continuing spread in the Northeast.

AP - Michael Griffin has moved from the administrator's suite atop NASA headquarters in Washington to the small, bare office of a new engineering professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

AP - The Energy Department is moving forward on a futuristic coal-burning power plant in Illinois that the Bush administration had declared dead.

AP - A judge has delayed a decision on whether a suspect in the slaying of Washington Redskins star defensive back Sean Taylor can withdraw his guilty plea.

AP - Iranian expatriates and their children living in the United States cast ballots Friday in the Middle East country's heated presidential election between incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a reformist who favors greater freedoms and improved ties with the U.S.

AP - A judge has dramatically reduced the sentence for a former Pentagon analyst who pleaded guilty to leaking classified information to an Israeli diplomat and two pro-Israel lobbyists.

AP - Bobcat fur coats have become a hot item among the fashion-conscious in Russia and China, leading to a big jump in prices and exports for the soft, spotted pelts.

AP - A prostitute doing time behind bars, Marcia Powell was temporarily moved one day last month to an outdoor holding pen with nothing but a chain-link-fence roof to shield her from the searing desert sun.

AP - Armies of new Avon ladies, Mary Kay reps and Tupperware sellers are advancing on living rooms across the country, their ranks full of professionals forced to take a second job amid the recession.

AP - Five family members have been arrested and their Long Island home condemned after seven children were found to be living in what police said was squalor.

AP - A New Jersey state trooper who was acquitted of vehicular homicide charges in a crash that killed two sisters has been fined for traffic violations stemming from the accident.

AP - The government is close to reaching a deal with several western Pennsylvania landowners who have property on the site where a Flight 93 National Memorial is to be built, possibly eliminating the need for the National Park Service to seize the land.

AP - Nearly two years after the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River, much of its twisted steel remnants sit rusting on a long swath of a leafy park just a half-mile from where the span fell.

AP - Two of five family members accused of keeping seven young children in a feces-strewn, filthy home on Long Island pleaded not guilty Friday to child endangerment charges.

AP - A former New York City policeman who is accused of confronting a suburban school official at gunpoint has been indicted on a kidnapping charge.

AP - A Texas appeals court on Friday overturned a ruling that would have put former President George W. Bush under oath in a dispute involving his presidential library.

AP - A 390-pound gorilla grabbed some low-hanging bamboo to scale a wall at a South Carolina zoo Friday, escaping his enclosure and tackling a worker before returning to his pen about five minutes later.

AP - President Barack Obama sought to bolster Zimbabwe's prime minister Friday while withholding support for his coalition government.

AP - Nearly 270 employees were fired or suspended for abusing or neglecting residents of large, state-run institutions for the mentally disabled in Texas during the last fiscal year, according to records obtained by The Associated Press.

AP - Despite complaints from an animal-rights group, a national veterinary association says Seattle's famed fishmongers will be tossing dead fish at its Seattle convention next month.