• Click for Full Story Police: NC girl raped, killed on day she was taken

    FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. Shaniya Davis was sexually assaulted and asphyxiated Nov. 10, the day her mother reported her missing from the trailer park where she was staying, according to the warrant. Authorities embarked on a nearly weeklong search that ended when the girl's body was found dumped off a rural road.

     
  • Click for Full Story UC students occupy buildings to protest fee hike

    BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Dozens of demonstrators who barricaded themselves inside a campus building at the University of California, Berkeley in a protest over fee hikes and budget cuts were removed late Friday, bringing the daylong occupation to an end, university officials said.

     
  • Click for Full Story Oprah's departure presents problem for TV stations

    CHICAGO (AP) — For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television much like Johnny Carson once ruled late night.

     
  • Car strikes crowd outside Ala. school, 1 killed

    FAIRFIELD, Ala. (AP) — A woman lost control of her car and struck nine children and an adult who were standing outside a middle school Friday afternoon, police said.

     
  • Death of Drew Brees' mother ruled a suicide

    GRANBY, Colo. (AP) — The death of the mother of New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees has been ruled a suicide.

     
  • Guidelines for cancer screening differ by group

    Several doctors groups and advocacy groups set guidelines for cancer screening, and they update that advice periodically as new information emerges. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don't. Last year, a number of groups got together and issued consensus guidelines for colon cancer.

     
  • Click for Full Story Former Marine charged in 'Cathouse' star's death

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A former Marine was charged Friday with six counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of four people whose bodies were found in a burning home, including a prostitute featured on the HBO reality series "Cathouse."

     
  • Teen pleads guilty in Border Patrol agent killing

    SAN DIEGO (AP) — A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to killing a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times while chasing suspected illegal immigrants in the mountains east of San Diego.

     
  • Click for Full Story SC lawmakers to take up impeachment of governor

    COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina lawmakers plan to formally consider impeaching Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time next week, the chairman of the committee beginning that work said Friday.

     
  • Click for Full Story Resort island reels after deadly attack by gunman

    SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) — After going on a shooting rampage that left a trail of victims on the Pacific resort island of Saipan, the gunman drove to a scenic, rocky cliff where untold numbers of Japanese men, women and children plunged to their deaths to avoid capture during World War II, according to police and witness accounts.