AP - Another round of storms in the Midwest has damaged homes and businesses, flooded streets and knocked out power to thousands.

AP - A group of ninth graders and teachers from a California private school has been quarantined in China after seven of them tested positive for swine flu on a school trip.

AP - Seven lumbering elephants — four of them newcomers — are the star attractions in the San Diego Zoo's biggest, most costly expansion in its 90-plus years.

AP - The father of a Michigan man who believes he was snatched from his real parents in New York half a century ago called the speculation 'a bunch of foolishness.'

AP - Another round of storms in the Midwest spawned several apparent tornadoes, damaging homes and businesses and knocking out power to thousands.

AP - With backing from Al Gore, Current TV was launched four years ago as a mix of traditional journalism and viewer-produced content meant to create an open exchange with its audience.

AP - A group of California students and teachers was released Thursday after being quarantined for a week in China because some of their classmates tested positive for swine flu, a school spokeswoman said.

AP - A nephew of the late New York Cardinal John O'Connor claims he was sexually abused by a priest.

AP - Mississippi officials say a historical marker can be placed on a state highway near where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964.

AP - The undercover police officer paid $60 to enter the Midori Spa just blocks from Providence city hall. A massage therapist rubbed the officer's back, then simulated a sex act with her right hand.

AP - Frustrated gay-rights leaders want President Barack Obama to be far more forceful in supporting their political goals, but they also fault the Democratic-led Congress and vow to step up lobbying efforts in hopes of seeing campaign promises fulfilled.

AP - A contractor clearing a natural gas line during water heater installation likely released a flammable cloud that ignited in a fatal blast at a North Carolina Slim Jim factory, federal investigators said Thursday.

AP - A former janitor was sentenced to six years in prison Thursday for trying to sell scrap hardware he stole from a shuttered plant that enriched uranium for nuclear weapons.

AP - The wife of the man responsible for the largest accounting fraud of the 1990s has filed for divorce — but federal prosecutors say the timing suggests that they're trying to avoid paying billions of dollars in penalties, not that their marriage is on the rocks.

AP - Thousands of people from some of South Carolina's most depressed counties are flocking to information sessions for new jobs cleaning up an old nuclear weapons complex.

AP - Scientists say new images from space suggest Mars had a sizable lake on its surface billions of years ago.

AP - Authorities say they found child pornography on a computer belonging to a white supremacist charged with shooting and killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

AP - Yvonne Resch remembers thinking as a child that the vermiculite mine only added to the area's natural beauty — its lights on Zonolite Mountain looked like a castle.

AP - A lawsuit has been filed against the Transportation Security Administration on behalf of a Ron Paul supporter who was detained at the St. Louis airport because he was carrying about $4,700 in cash.

AP - Anthony Rivers was laid off from his maintenance job three weeks ago and is willing to do just about anything to rejoin the ranks of the employed in South Carolina — even if that means cleaning up nuclear waste.

AP - Sen. John Ensign helped his mistress's husband get two jobs during the time the rising Republican senator acknowledges carrying on an extramarital affair, an Ensign spokesman said Thursday.