NASA officials scrub Saturday space shuttle launch
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA officials have canceled a planned Saturday launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour due to hydrogen leak....

'Rockefeller' convicted of kidnapping daughter
BOSTON (AP) -- A German man who called himself Clark Rockefeller and spun fantastic stories about himself during three decades in the United States was convicted Friday of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter and sentenced to four to five years in prison....

DC Holocaust museum reopens after fatal shooting
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Liz Johnson showed up Friday to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum with 12 Girl Scouts in tow. None of them was alive when the Holocaust took place, but they were determined that a fatal shooting at the museum two days earlier wouldn't keep them from supporting its mission....

Appeals court says no to George W. Bush deposition
DALLAS (AP) -- A Texas appeals court on Friday overturned a ruling that would have put former President George W. Bush under oath in a dispute involving his presidential library....

Police: NY family arrested, kept kids in squalor
MASTIC BEACH, N.Y. (AP) -- Five family members kept seven children and more than a dozen animals in a Long Island house that reeked of urine and was littered with rotting food and animal feces, authorities said Friday....

Gorilla injures 1 during brief escape at SC zoo
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A 390-pound gorilla grabbed some low-hanging bamboo to scale a wall at a South Carolina zoo Friday, escaping his enclosure and tackling a worker before returning to his pen about five minutes later....

Rubble from 2007 bridge collapse rusting in park
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Nearly two years after the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River, much of its twisted steel remnants sit rusting on a long swath of a leafy park just a half-mile from where the span fell....

Ariz. inmate death leads to ban on outdoor cells
PHOENIX (AP) -- A prostitute doing time behind bars, Marcia Powell was temporarily moved one day last month to an outdoor holding pen with nothing but a chain-link-fence roof to shield her from the searing desert sun....

Expats in US vote in Iranian presidential election
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Iranian expatriates and their children living in the United States cast ballots Friday in the Middle Eastern country's heated presidential election between incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his main rival, a reformist who favors greater freedoms and improved ties with the U.S....

Friday marks final signoff for analog TV service
NEW YORK (AP) -- TV shows were replaced by the hiss of static in perhaps 1 million U.S. homes Friday as stations ended their analog broadcasts and abandoned the transmission technology in use since the days of Milton Berle, Sid Caesar and Howdy Doody....