Two fires still raging along California's central coast (AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:19:08 GMT
AP - Cool, damp weather early Saturday helped crews gain ground on the huge wildfire that wiped out this coastal retreat's holiday tourist trade, allowing some personnel and gear to be shifted to a growing blaze farther south

Obama: Media response to Iraq remarks overblown (AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:45:23 GMT
AP - Barack Obama celebrated "active faith" as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking Saturday to a nearly all-black roomful of churchgoers, but hoping to reach far beyond them.

Rescue video shows duped rebels, elated hostages (AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:21:00 GMT
AP - Military intelligence agents posing as aid workers and a film crew flew to the jungle aboard a white helicopter, staging a mock humanitarian mission that rebels were told would ferry their hostages to another camp for talks on a prisoner swap.

Iran indicates it has no plans to halt enrichment (AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:11:05 GMT
AP - Iran indicated Saturday that it has no plans to meet a key Western demand that it stop enriching uranium, a day after Tehran sent the European Union a response to an international offer of incentives for halting enrichment.

Grief leads father to create bomb-defusing robot (AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:08:17 GMT
AP - The knock on Brian Hart's door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq.

Public tipsters help foil fugitive murder suspect (AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:11:27 GMT
AP - The television image of fugitive murder suspect Nicholas Sheley's mug shot was fresh in Samantha Butler's mind as she ventured out to get dinner for the family, warning her relatives to lock the door behind her.

Americans' unhappy birthday: 'Too much wrong right now' (AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:32:15 GMT
AP - Even folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat line these days.

Man flying lawn chair lifted by helium balloons (AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:17:07 GMT
AP - Riding a green lawn chair supported by a rainbow array of more than 150 helium-filled party balloons, Kent Couch took off Saturday in a third bid to fly from central Oregon all the way to Idaho.

Crikey! 'Crocodile Hunter' daughter gets own doll (AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:06:19 GMT
AP - The Emmy-winning daughter of the late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin is getting her own doll.

Venus tops Serena for 5th Wimbledon title (AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:31:42 GMT
AP - Thrilled as she was to win her fifth Wimbledon singles championship, Venus Williams dialed down her celebration.