Britain, California plan global warming pact

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Britain and California are preparing to sidestep the Bush administration and fight global warming together by creating a joint market for greenhouse gases.

Wind hampers crews battling huge wildfire

RENO, Nevada (AP) -- High wind hampered fire crews again Sunday as they fought a wildfire that had dashed across nearly 300 square miles of remote rangeland in northern Nevada.

Study: Food utensil important in diets

NEW YORK (AP) -- How many M&MS are enough?

Mother gets 40 years for child abuse

CINCINNATI, Ohio (AP) -- A woman who molested at least one of her five children and prompted four of them to have sex with each other has been sentenced to 40 years in prison.

Engine failure suspected in skydivers' crash

SULLIVAN, Missouri (AP) -- Investigators said Sunday that engine failure apparently caused a plane carrying skydivers to nosedive soon after takeoff, killing six people, including a man who was a member of the U.S. Parachute Team and had made thousands of jumps.

Skydivers' plane crashes; six killed

SULLIVAN, Missouri (AP) -- A small plane carrying skydivers crashed shortly after takeoff Saturday, killing six people on board and injuring two others, authorities and witnesses said.

Five killed in latest New Orleans shootings

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- Three brothers and a friend were killed in a neighborhood not far from the French Quarter, and a fifth person was gunned down in a separate incident hours later, authorities said Saturday.

Residents head back to flooded Ohio homes

EASTLAKE, Ohio (AP) -- Eric Martin purchased a condominium a few weeks ago in Painesville, a Cleveland suburb surrounded on three sides by the Grand River.

Seattle protects temples, mosques

SEATTLE, Washington (CNN) -- Seattle police are beefing up security at temples and mosques Saturday after a woman was killed in a suspected hate crime linked to the Middle East crisis.

California temperatures drop but death toll soars

FRESNO, California (AP) -- Children and their parents filled the playground and soccer fields at Radio Park, relieved they could finally venture outside after a nearly two-week heat wave blamed for as many as 141 deaths.

900 flee Nebraska fire

(CNN) -- At least 900 residents evacuated Chadron, Nebraska, after wildfires reached the town's border and caught several houses on fire Saturday, Nebraska Emergency Management Agency spokesman Jim Bunstock said.

10 hurt when car slams into Starbucks' patio

EL MONTE, California (AP) -- An elderly man drove a car onto a patio at a Starbucks on Friday night, injuring 10 people, two of them critically, authorities said.

Landis: Tour win due to 'heart,' not drugs

(CNN) -- Tour de France champion Floyd Landis said Friday that his victory in the world's most-famous bike race last week had nothing to do with cheating.

One dead in shooting at Jewish center

(CNN) -- One person was killed and five others were wounded, three critically, in a shooting at the Jewish Federation in downtown Seattle, Washington, police said.

1 killed, 4 wounded in Jewish center shooting

SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- At least five people were shot, one of them fatally, Friday afternoon at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, and one person was arrested, authorities said.

Diocese: Priest spent $1.4 million on tony lifestyle

BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut (AP) -- A priest who resigned from a church in an affluent Connecticut community misspent up to $1.4 million in parishioner donations to lead a life of luxury with another man, according to a church-directed investigation.

U.N. panel: U.S. must protect blacks, poor in disasters

GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) -- The United States must better protect poor people and African-Americans in natural disasters to avoid problems like those after Hurricane Katrina, a U.N. human rights panel said Friday.

Four jailed Aryan Brotherhood members convicted

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- A jury convicted four leaders of a white-supremacist prison gang Friday on charges they used murder and intimidation to protect their drug-dealing operations behind bars.

Billionaire charged in prostitution sting

PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) -- A billionaire named one of New York's most eligible bachelors has been charged with solicitation of prostitution after authorities alleged he paid women to have sex with him in his Florida mansion.

Blair to seek U.S. support on Mideast crisis

(CNN) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair headed Friday to Washington, where he was expected to press President Bush on a swift solution to the Middle East crisis.