AP - California Assembly Speaker Karen Bass plans to strip the most controversial provisions from a Senate-approved plan that would have trimmed the state's prison population by 27,000 inmates.

AP - Health officials are offering some basic advice for college students with flu symptoms: Avoid other people until 24 hours after a fever is gone.

AP - Frustrated with a string of wrongful convictions, the Dallas police department is now the nation's largest force to use sequential blind photo lineups — a widely praised technique designed to reduce mistakes made by witnesses trying to identify suspects.

AP - A small plane crashed while trying to land at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport on Friday morning, and the two people aboard survived and managed to walk away from the fiery wreckage.

AP - U.S. and Canadian authorities pressed their manhunt Friday for a reality TV contestant charged with killing a former swimsuit model and removing her teeth and fingers. The woman's relatives pleaded with his friends and family not to help 'an animal' evade capture.

AP - Relatives of Americans killed when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland are considering their next move, a day after the convicted bomber was freed from prison on humanitarian grounds.

AP - An Egyptian man who was acquitted of terrorism-related charges earlier this year should not be deported, a judge in Florida ruled Friday.

AP - Opponents made a last stand Friday against a proposal to allow sexually active gays and lesbians in committed relationships to serve as clergy in the nation's largest Lutheran denomination.

AP - Mayor Michael Bloomberg is defending pharmaceutical companies and their CEOs, declaring that they 'don't make a lot of money' and shouldn't be scapegoats in the health care debate.

AP - Family members, longtime friends and music fans of all ages lined up Friday at a public visitation for Les Paul, a renowned inventor whose creation of the first solid-body electric guitar helped pave the way for rock 'n' roll.

AP - Seattle's man says putting together the pieces of his memory has been a frustrating, confusing experience.

AP - Family members, longtime friends and music fans of all ages lined up Friday at a public visitation for Les Paul, the inventor whose creation of the first solid-body electric guitar helped pave the way for rock 'n' roll.

AP - Could it be divine intervention that's kept Florida safe from hurricanes since Gov. Charlie Crist took office?

AP - Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, viewed as a national leader on environmental issues but dogged by criticism at home for the city's mishandling of December snowstorms and for his support of a multibillion-dollar downtown tunnel, conceded defeat Friday in a primary vote.

AP - A former banker described by prosecutors as the man most responsible for sparking a broad U.S. investigation into rich Americans' use of secret Swiss bank accounts to evade taxes was sentenced Friday to more than three years in federal prison.

AP - A Miami immigration judge signed an order Friday to release an Egyptian man acquitted earlier this year of terrorism-related charges.

AP - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford took dozens of undisclosed flights on private planes since taking office in 2003 despite a state law requiring him to report who paid for the travel, an Associated Press investigation has found.

AP - Peter and Gina Fochtman sat stone-faced at the courtroom table. Across from them was the man who could determine their family's future: an attorney for the bank trying to foreclose on their home.

AP - American Indian activist Leonard Peltier, imprisoned since 1977 for the deaths of two FBI agents, has been denied parole after authorities decided that releasing him would diminish the seriousness of his crime, a federal prosecutor said Friday.

AP - Beneath the stained-glass windows of a tiny white stucco church, one woman pored intently over a Bible and another wiped away tears while they prayed for an end to bloodshed in this Central California farming town.

AP - Pittsburgh has approved a permit for a protest rally the day before the Group of 20 economic summit and has picked two locations for protesters to gather when the world's economic leaders meet next month.

AP - Like seeing-eye dogs for the blind, trained dogs are now being used to help autistic children deal with their disabilities. But some schools want to keep the animals out, and families are fighting back.

AP - Attorneys for a Florida mother charged with killing her daughter claimed Friday that she could not have killed the toddler because the little girl's remains were left in the woods while she was in jail.

AP - A federal jury has convicted New Orleans political operative Mose Jefferson of bribery charges less than a month after his brother, a former Louisiana congressman, was found guilty of unrelated corruption charges.

AP - During most of his high school football career, Baquer Sayed broke the Ramadan fast during halftime, when the stadium lights began to flood the field after sundown.

AP - Speaking in a soft, sometimes labored voice, the only U.S. Army officer convicted in the 1968 slayings of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai made an extraordinary public apology while speaking to a small group near the military base where he was court-martialed.

AP - New York City officials want to find a larger place for Spike Lee to hold his celebration of Michael Jackson's birthday.

AP - A pipe burst in the 52-story Prudential Center on Friday, sending three people to the hospital and flooding the building's bottom floors with more than 60,000 gallons of water.

AP - Bishop Avis Hill can't help feeling a little like a pioneer these days.

AP - As counselor Sherry Lynch Conrad bid goodbye to Seung-Hui Cho after a 45-minute session, she urged him to return in January. He never made an appointment.

AP - Speaking in a soft, sometimes labored voice, the only U.S. Army officer convicted in the 1968 slayings of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai made an extraordinary public apology while speaking to a small group near the military base where he was court-martialed.

AP - An Egyptian man acquitted earlier this year of terrorism-related charges but then taken into custody by immigration officials was released Friday to his joyous family.

AP - Media conglomerate Tribune Co. announced a definitive agreement Friday to sell all but a 5 percent stake in the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field to the billionaire Ricketts family, capping a tortuous process that began nearly 2 1/2 years ago.

AP - A lawyer for the woman who claims Ben Roethlisberger raped her at Lake Tahoe last summer is asking a judge to sanction the Steelers quarterback's legal team, saying they tried to 'bully' her into dropping her civil lawsuit.

AP - A self-employed graphic designer methodically killed at least four of his girlfriend's cats and tortured two others while the unsuspecting woman continued to adopt new ones over a four-month period, authorities said Friday.

AP - An Ohio teen who says she ran away from home because she feared punishment for converting from Islam to Christianity will stay in Florida while custody issues are being settled, a judge ruled Friday.

AP - Police in riot gear have entered a medium-security men's prison in Kentucky where inmates have set fire to at least two buildings. A prison spokeswoman says no injuries have been reported and no hostages have been taken.