AP - Members of the Alpha and Omega Church knew helping a federal summer feeding program for kids was risky, since sponsors often lose money.

AP - They were waiting down at Gibson Chevrolet near Chicago for a couple of five-gallon cans of sodium silicate — liquid glass, they call it — to poison and kill the clunkers when the latest condemned car pulled up.

AP - Derris Lewis never got the chance to mourn the death of his identical twin brother, Dennis, after he was shot and killed last year. Now he finally can.

AP - Aerosmith postponed at least one weekend concert after frontman Steven Tyler fell off the stage at a South Dakota show and suffered what a concert spokesman said were head, neck and shoulder injuries.

AP - Four of the women wounded in a shooting rampage at a suburban Pittsburgh health club remain hospitalized.

AP - Two men have pleaded guilty to offering a $1 million bribe to a U.S. army officer in Afghanistan for a contract there.

AP - America's baby boomlet is showing signs of tapering off.

AP - The wife of philandering South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is moving out of the official governor's residence with their four sons for the school year.

AP - The mother of three children who drowned after she drove into a central Arkansas lake has been charged with felony endangerment in the deaths of her sons.

AP - The attorney who got the Supreme Court to overturn the District of Columbia's handgun ban is now challenging rules that prohibit gun owners from carrying their weapons outside their homes.

AP - Authorities say the mother whose three young boys drowned when she drove into a central Arkansas lake had been drinking before the accident.

AP - A former worker at a Texas school where developmentally disabled residents were forced into 'fight club' bouts pleaded guilty Friday to allowing the injury of a disabled person and received a two-year suspended jail sentence.

AP - They were waiting down at Gibson Chevrolet near Chicago for a couple of five-gallon cans of sodium silicate — liquid glass, they call it — to poison and kill the clunkers when the latest condemned car pulled up.

AP - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says he supports his wife's decision to move out of the governor's mansion, just weeks after he admitted to an affair with another woman.

AP - Police investigating the slaying of a 17-year-old boy say they presumed from the beginning that a palm print found at the scene was covered in blood.

AP - The mother of three young children who drowned after she drove into a central Arkansas lake had been drinking before the crash, authorities said Friday, the second recent case in which a mom was accused of drinking before getting behind the wheel with her kids.

AP - A man who spent 23 years in prison for a kidnapping and rape that DNA tests show he may not have committed was released on bond Friday to his joyful family.

AP - At one point during her quarter-century as an alcoholic, Carol Colleran would down at least 10 beers each weeknight, more on weekends. Then she would show up the next morning at her job in hospital management, feeling fuzzy and lousy.

AP - There aren't just fewer jobs in a recession. There are fewer babies, too.

AP - A Houston man apologized for his actions before being sentenced Friday to 4 1/2 years in prison for conspiring to join the Taliban and fight against U.S. forces.

AP - An Ohio teenager cleared of killing his identical twin said Friday that he can forgive police and prosecutors but plans to sue because he must be compensated for spending 18 months behind bars.

AP - A federal appeals court in Virginia has affirmed the capital murder conviction and death sentence of D.C.-area sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad.

AP - The city of New Orleans has agreed to a settlement with a retired teacher who sued over his videotaped beating by police officers in the city's French Quarter several weeks after Hurricane Katrina.

AP - A jailed Yemeni cleric has pleaded guilty in New York City to raising money for Hamas terrorists.

AP - The owner of a suburban Philadelphia day care has been charged in the death of a toddler left in a hot minivan for hours outside the center last month.

AP - A North Dakota woman accused of breast-feeding her 6-week-old baby while drunk has been ordered to get treatment that could help her avoid jail.

AP - Texas law enforcement officials say the driver in a charter bus crash that killed 17 people likely won't be charged with anything except misdemeanor traffic violations.

AP - Disabled mom Shawna Eddy hopes the mounds of clothing covering her front lawn will generate enough cash to take three adolescent daughters to the Shoe Show before school starts.

AP - Health officials in California and Colorado say at least nine people have reported illnesses tied to recalled ground beef that may be tainted with salmonella.

AP - An 11-year-old boy died in the intense heat of Death Valley National Park after he and his mother became stranded in one of the world's most inhospitable areas and survived for several days on bottled water, Pop-Tarts and cheese sandwiches, authorities said Friday.

AP - The lonelyhearted man who killed three women in a shooting rampage at a health club knew the book 'How to Date Young Women: For Men Over 35' chapter and verse, and was a devoted follower of its author.

AP - If there is one place where any bad feelings from the hearings on Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination could have lasting consequences, it's Florida, the pesky swing state that the second-largest Puerto Rican community outside the island calls home.

AP - A retired state Supreme Court judge who procured prostitutes for his social club, including one woman who had appeared before him in court and another who was in the country illegally, was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison.

AP - Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry says lead singer Steven Tyler suffered a broken shoulder and has stitches in his head after falling from a stage during a concert near Sturgis, S.D.

AP - The age-old tension between rural Georgia and its sprawling metropolis may only intensify because of a federal ruling that could keep essential reservoir water from trickling into Atlanta.

AP - The rare 3-week-old Amur tiger cub's eyes haven't completely opened yet, her belly bulges and her paws seem too large for her tiny head.

AP - Hurricane Felicia remains a Category 2 storm far out in the Pacific and is expected to weaken as it gets closer to Hawaii.

AP - An online weapons dealer who sold a gun or accessories to three mass killers, including a man who opened fire at a Pittsburgh-area health club this week, said Friday that any of the shooters could have just as easily found what they wanted at a Wal-Mart or another store.

AP - Police investigating a head-on highway crash that killed a suburban mother and seven other people said Friday she was fine at a fast-food restaurant an hour after starting her drive, narrowing the timeline for when she may have begun a drinking binge.

AP - Investigators stopped collecting evidence Friday at a historic black cemetery in suburban Chicago where workers allegedly dug up corpses and resold burial plots, acknowledging they'll likely never know the identities of all the remains that were removed.

AP - Jimmy Bedford, the slender and silver-haired former master distiller of the Jack Daniel's whiskey during a 40-year career with the company, died Friday. He was 69.

AP - An Arkansas doctor accused of illegally owning high-explosive grenades and his wife face new federal charges accusing them of interfering with the investigation into their extensive weapons cache.

AP - Regulators have shut down two banks in Florida and one in Oregon, bringing the number of federally insured banks to fail this year to 72.

AP - A man with a shotgun opened fire inside a suburban residence Friday, critically wounding his estranged wife and killing his daughter and mother-in-law before turning the weapon on himself, police said.

AP - The prominent lawyers leading the fight to legalize gay marriage in California have asked a judge to bar the city of San Francisco and three other groups supportive of same-sex weddings from joining in their federal lawsuit.