AP - Tropical Storm Danny has the U.S. East Coast in it's sights but the National Hurricane Center says the storm is poorly organized.

AP - A reality contestant wanted in the gruesome murder and mutilation of his ex-model wife didn't start his 1,000-mile dash for his native Canada until 24 hours after her body was found and he moved out of his penthouse and picked up his speedboat, police said.

AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is hoping that the 'Great California Garage Sale' will turn government clutter like surplus prison uniforms and office furniture into cash to bulk up the state's depleted finances.

AP - Only minutes after Prohibition died in 1933, Angelo Cammarata, 19, served a 10-cent bottle of Fort Pitt beer to a customer in his father's neighborhood grocery.

AP - A high school football team in Iowa is set to play its first game since players saw their coach gunned down during offseason workouts in the school's weight room.

AP - At least eight minor earthquakes have been recorded in central and southern Oklahoma in a single day.

AP - A casket that helped trigger the civil rights movement and decades later was discarded like trash is now heading to the Smithsonian Institution.

AP - Coastal residents looked ahead Friday to a late-summer weekend with fewer beach-loving tourists as Tropical Storm Danny kicked up rough surf that forecasters warned would be too risky for boaters and swimmers, though tempting for surfers.

AP - Gov. Charlie Crist chose trust and loyalty on Friday over Washington experience or potential political gain in choosing former chief of staff George LeMieux to replace Republican U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez.

AP - A rural Virginia sheriff accused of taking bribes in exchange for promising not to interfere with a cockfighting ring has pleaded guilty to racketeering.

AP - An accused computer hacker charged in what prosecutors call the largest identity fraud case in U.S. history has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges.

AP - Several buildings at the University of Notre Dame have been evacuated because of heavy smoke caused by a fire in an underground utility tunnel near the center of campus.

AP - Coastal residents looked ahead Friday to a late-summer weekend with fewer beach-loving tourists as Tropical Storm Danny kicked up rough surf that forecasters warned would be too risky for boaters and swimmers, though tempting for surfers.

AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is hoping that the 'Great California Garage Sale' will turn government clutter like surplus prison uniforms and office furniture into cash to bulk up the state's depleted finances.

AP - New Mexico's top federal prosecutor confirmed Friday that no charges will be brought against Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson and his former top aides after a probe of an alleged pay-to-play scheme prompted him to withdraw his nomination as U.S. commerce secretary.

AP - The brazen bank robber didn't bother to hide his face as he threatened tellers with a gun in at least 10 heists from Kentucky to the Carolinas to Tennessee.

AP - Only minutes after Prohibition died in 1933, Angelo Cammarata, 19, served a 10-cent bottle of Fort Pitt beer to a customer in his father's neighborhood grocery.

AP - There's the White House auto czar, the health care czar and the yet-to-be-named cyber czar. There are czars overseeing drugs, climate and regulatory action. There's a pay czar overlooking executive compensation and talk of another for sports and culture.

AP - Officials say they have released two Haitian parents whose baby girl drowned when a boat carrying migrants capsized off South Florida's coast.

AP - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says he doesn't know if ethics investigators are looking at his travel, but the Republican says he will allow any probe to be public.

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has slowed its pace of nuclear expansion and met some demands for better monitoring but allegations of covert atom bomb research look credible and Tehran must address them, the U.N atomic watchdog said.

VIENNA (Reuters) - U.N. inspectors are analyzing further evidence taken from a nuclear research plant in Syria's capital Damascus where unexplained uranium traces were found, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog said on Friday.

AP - A jury convicted a 20-year-old man Friday of the gang rape and assault of a mother and her son during a home invasion two years ago.

AP - The man who police say hijacked an Atlanta public school bus with about a dozen students aboard and then left the vehicle driverless as it thundered down a steep hill was charged Friday with 13 counts of false imprisonment and 13 more charges of reckless conduct.

AP - No sow and piglets in the children's barnyard at this year's Caledonia County Fair. No baby pig chases, either.

AP - When police responding to a 911 call banged on the door of a suburban Atlanta home, they were greeted by a 4-year-old girl in a blood-soaked shirt who said her whole family was dead, a neighbor said.

AP - On the last morning of his life, Jorge Mario Gonzalez drove to his beloved Four Oaks Farm, a 30-acre ranch tucked away in the bucolic Texas countryside, his pregnant wife and 21-month-old son by his side.

AP - A federal warning to beware of campers in national forests who eat tortillas, drink Tecate beer and play Spanish music because they could be armed marijuana growers is racial profiling, an advocate for Hispanic rights said Friday.

AP - A computer hacker accused of masterminding one of the largest cases of identity theft in U.S. history agreed Friday to plead guilty and serve up to 25 years in federal prison for his crimes.

AP - Authorities are stepping up patrols near an area of Jefferson National Forest where two Virginia Tech students were found slain.

AP - Two men were convicted Friday in the brutal gang rape attack on a woman and her young son in a South Florida housing project and could be sentenced to life in prison.

AP - His neighbors knew he was a registered sex offender. Kids on his block called him 'Creepy Phil' and kept their distance. Parole agents and local law enforcement regularly visited his home and found nothing unusual, even after a neighbor complained children were living in a complex of tents in his backyard.

AP - A former president of Madison Square Garden has sued New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, saying Steinbrenner reneged on a promise to make him a major part of the Yankees-operated television network after he suggested creating it more than a decade ago.

AP - Louisiana's top prosecutor said Friday he will not reopen a probe into allegations of euthanasia at a hospital crippled by Hurricane Katrina, despite new statements from a doctor that he drugged a terminal patient to 'get rid of her faster.'

AP - The list of Idaho Republicans condemning a GOP gubernatorial candidate's comments about buying a license to hunt President Barack Obama grew Friday, as party leaders worried the incident would reflect badly on the state.

AP - The spires of The Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help tower above Mission Hill, one of Boston's most culturally diverse neighborhoods, an area filled with the very kinds of people whose causes Sen. Edward Kennedy championed for nearly half a century in the Senate.

AP - The wounds suffered by a pastor killed inside her church indicate that she tried to fight off her attacker before her throat was slashed and she was nearly decapitated, according to a forensics expert who reviewed a preliminary autopsy report on Friday.

AP - Bargain-hunters snatched up watches confiscated from criminals, surplus prison shirts and antique pianos salvaged from parks on the first day of a statewide garage sale to scrape together cash for California.

AP - Calls are growing louder for Gov. Mark Sanford to resign over his extramarital affair and questionable travel on commercial, state and private planes.

AP - Two men were convicted Friday in the brutal gang rape attack on a woman and her young son in a South Florida housing project and could be sentenced to life in prison.

AP - An Iowa high school football has honored slain coach Ed Thomas in an emotional pre-game ceremony before its first contest since Thomas was killed in June.

AP - Air traffic controllers in a major control center in California were reduced to using personal mobile phones to guide dozens of airplanes when the communications system crashed for several minutes Wednesday morning.

AP - The head of the South Carolina Ethics Commission is confirming that an investigation of Gov. Mark Sanford's travel has been going on for 10 days.

AP - An Iowa high school football team, playing its first game since their coach was killed, ran onto the field Friday through a 75-yard tunnel formed by hundreds of former players.

AP - Two quick-thinking police employees at the University of California, Berkeley described Friday how they set in motion Jaycee Lee Dugard's release after nearly two decades of captivity as they encountered her alleged captor on campus.