AP - Aerosmith has canceled the remainder of its summer tour.

AP - An 18-year-old who was among a group of eight hikers that had run out of water at the Grand Canyon has died.

AP - Vice President Joe Biden is expected to join Eunice Kennedy Shriver's family and friends to bid final farewell to the founder of the Special Olympics in a Massachusetts church long associated with her family.

AP - Thousands of people are expected to line the streets of Jacksonville for the funeral procession for Michael Scott Speicher, whose remains returned to Florida 18 years after his FA-18 Hornet was shot down on the first night of the 1991 Gulf War.

AP - When a plane goes down at sea, why is it sometimes so difficult to find the black boxes? Shouldn't it be as simple as equipping them with GPS devices?

AP - Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps is unhurt after the SUV he was driving collided with another car in Baltimore.

AP - They spent their nights jumping in and out of strange cars, trolling otherwise empty streets lined with decaying storefronts and boarded-up homes. Many sold sex to support drug habits or children left in the care of worried, hardworking grandmothers.

AP - An Ohio man accused of harassing women and girls while wearing a green, one-piece woman's swimsuit has been sentenced to three years' probation.

AP - Thousands of people lined the streets for the funeral procession of Gulf War Navy pilot Michael Scott Speicher, whose remains were discovered in Iraq and returned home 18 years after his plane was shot down.

AP - A federal official says Charles Manson follower Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme who was convicted of trying to assassinate former President Gerald Ford has been released from a Texas prison after more than three decades behind bars.

AP - A dispute about bus advertisements seeking to publicize atheist views has touched off a free speech debate after the signs were torn down — then posted again — on the sides of Des Moines city buses.

AP - Gov. Mark Sanford headed to Florida on Friday for a refresher course with the Air Force Reserves while a South Carolina ethics panel considered whether to investigate his state plane use and his flights on commercial airlines.

AP - Samir Megahed planned to take his oath as an American citizen Friday with an odd mix of pride and pain, knowing his adopted country considers his son a terrorist and is trying to deport him.

AP - Organizers have canceled a lecture at the Library of Congress by the woman who became a symbol of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal after threats caused concerns about staff safety.

AP - More than 500 mourners gathered to remember the members of a Philadelphia-area family killed when their single-engine plane collided with a helicopter over the Hudson River.

AP - Samir Megahed took his oath as an American citizen Friday with an odd mix of pride and pain, knowing his adopted country considers his son a terrorist and is trying to deport him.

AP - Michael Jackson impersonator Frederick Henry had to go overseas to find steady work in recent years as the pop star's behavior got weirder and weirder. Many of his colleagues quit the business altogether.

AP - Navy pilot Scott Speicher, the long-missing first casualty of the first Gulf War, was finally laid to rest Friday in his adopted hometown as thousands of people lined the streets to watch a funeral procession pass his school, church and former military base.

AP - The U.S. Postal Service has decided to keep a rural Maine town's lone mailbox after a protest that included a phone blitz, pressure from elected officials and a blockade to prevent the box's removal.

AP - A crash involving Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps was blamed on the other driver, who ran a red light, Baltimore police said Friday.

AP - The Rev. Dave Glesne stood before the members of Redeemer Lutheran Church a few weeks ago and told them there might be some painful decisions in the near future.

AP - Bernard Madoff's decades-long fraud might not have been his only secret. A new book says he had a two-decade affair with one of his investors.

AP - Prosecutors on Friday called a Texas mother's claims that it was not her but the family dog who severed her infant son's genitals during an attack two years ago 'unbelievable' and 'ridiculous.'

AP - For three decades, doctors in a small Colorado town have agreed to share the expense of treating the poor, lowering costs for everyone and recently gaining praise from Democrats as a model of what health care overhaul should look like.

AP - When comic book store owner Dave Luebke heard that after 67 years, the carrot-topped everyman of the comic world, Archie, was proposing to va-va-voomy rich girl Veronica instead of girl-next-door Betty, he decided to protest by selling his copy of the series' rare first issue.

AP - Hundreds of potential jurors in the murder trial of former police officer Drew Peterson were asked to fill out questionnaires Friday, although no trial date has been set and Peterson wants the trial moved.

AP - Clad in an orange jail jumpsuit and with shackles on his hands and ankles, rapper Corey 'C-Murder' Miller stood silently as he was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for the shooting death of a teenager in 2002.

AP - The founder of the online gambling site BetOnSports pleaded guilty on Friday to federal racketeering conspiracy and other charges.

AP - A man accused of impersonating a lawyer in at least 10 states has been sentenced to more than four years in prison and ordered to repay more than $150,000 to clients around the country.

AP - A jury has convicted a Texas mother of mutilating her infant son by cutting off his genitals two years ago.

AP - A man convicted of helping run what police called a 'fight club' that set developmentally disabled residents of a state-run center against each other was sentenced to three years in prison Friday.

AP - Hurricane Guillermo has strengthened into a Category 2 storm far out in the Pacific.

AP - Michael Vick picked a tough place for a second chance.

AP - Rock legend Bob Dylan was treated like a complete unknown by police in a New Jersey shore community when a resident called to report someone wandering around the neighborhood.

AP - A Kentucky ambulance driver has been charged with murder and driving under the influence in a crash that killed a patient being taken to the hospital last year.

AP - Baltimore police say they'll cite Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps for driving without a license and failure to establish residency in Maryland.

AP - Hundreds of potential jurors in the murder trial of former police officer Drew Peterson were asked to fill out questionnaires Friday, although no trial date has been set and Peterson wants the trial moved.

AP - The mayor of Gary, Ind., said Friday his cash-strapped city paid $5,000 to fly Michael Jackson's father and seven other people out from Los Angeles to attend a July memorial for his son in the pop star's hometown.

AP - Authorities say an American has pleaded guilty to smuggling more than 27 million cigarettes from the U.S. into some European Union countries.

AP - A Texas sheriff has been suspended amid allegations he filed false reports and was incompetent in hiring and supervising his staff.

AP - A new tax has been signed into law to rescue Alabama's most populous county from a financial crisis that led to more than one-fourth of the county's government workers being laid off.

AP - Christopher Sealey has spent days in his young life as a marketing guru for liberal causes and many of his nights as a DJ or clubbing in Manhattan in ensembles that would cost an average New Yorker a month's pay.

AP - Residents of a tent city in East Providence agreed on Friday to leave their spot under an I-195 bridge in three and a half weeks, but they said they are not happy about it and might still try to fight it.

AP - Bernard Madoff's decades-long fraud might not have been his only secret. A new book says he had a two-decade affair with one of his investors.

AP - The son of a late civil rights leader said Friday that he plans to seek pardons on behalf of his father, who was arrested many times while helping organize the Montgomery bus boycott and protests against segregation in Birmingham.

AP - The sidewalk outside the Harlem store still was smeared with blood Friday, and the glass on the door still was blown out.

AP - Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps was driving with an expired, out-of-state license and told police he drank a beer about an hour and 15 minutes before he was involved in an accident, Baltimore police said Friday.

AP - A lecture by the woman who became the public face of the Abu Ghraib scandal was canceled Friday at the Library of Congress after threats led to concerns about staff safety.

AP - A graduate student imprisoned for a month in Iran and barred from leaving the country for nearly a year has returned to Los Angeles.