AP - A gunman toting an assault rifle got out of a vehicle and shot a child, a teenager and a young man to death on a street Friday before the car sped away, police said.

AP - Taking the back door into the United States, droves of Cubans are crossing some of the world's stormiest seas and clambering onto this rugged speck of an island belonging to Puerto Rico.

AP - Backyard use of fireworks and related injuries are increasing nationwide, according to industry and government data, and researchers say thousands of children each year are among the victims.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Several massive vessels have run aground on Michigan's Saginaw River this shipping season, caught in shallow waters a few miles from Lake Huron.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Children breast-fed as infants are less likely to wet the bed later on, researchers reported on Wednesday, probably because they have a developmental edge.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street bonuses, foreign buyers and a strong local economy boosted Manhattan apartment prices to new records in the second quarter despite a 14.8 percent drop in sales and the highest number of unsold units since 1999, according to a report released on Thursday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tribune Co. plans to cut several foreign correspondent positions at two of its daily newspapers and reorganize its overseas coverage as it tries to cut costs and stave off a revolt by one of its largest shareholders.

AP - A terrorist plot to flood lower Manhattan by attacking train tunnels under the Hudson River used by tens of thousands of commuters was thwarted before the conspirators could travel to the United States, authorities said Friday.

AP - No one can know for sure whether an al-Qaida loyalist had what it took to follow through on a suspected plot to bomb Hudson River train tunnels. He had no explosives and no detailed plan, and isn't believed to have visited New York, authorities said. But U.S. officials said they weren't willing to find out.

AP - A malfunction on an amusement park ride Sunday sent 27 people to hospitals, most with minor chest and neck injuries, a park official said.

AP - State lawmakers approved a measure late Monday that would force a million people receiving state or federal aid to verify their citizenship, part of a package of bills dealing with illegal immigration that Democrats called the toughest in the nation.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Space shuttle Discovery's two spacewalkers head back into their ship's open cargo bay on Wednesday to practice a procedure NASA hopes it never has to use.

AP - Up to 9 inches of rain brought flooding to Indiana and Ohio on Wednesday, killing a woman, while a tornado in a county north of New York City partly collapsed a commercial building and ripped the roof off a hotel.

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - New Orleans police on Thursday charged a 19-year-old man with the gun slaying last month of five teens that sparked a panic about rising crime in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

AP - A man arrested after returning from Mexico with a 5-year-old boy on his lap was indicted Friday by a federal grand jury on charges of kidnapping, child molestation and trafficking in child pornography.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States extradited a suspected pedophile on Saturday to Mexico, where a child abuse ring he allegedly headed was at the center of a political scandal.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. airlines are shifting their battle for customers from coach to business class.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Software company Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday it had filed 26 lawsuits that allege computer dealers sold illegal software.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Walt Disney Co. said late on Tuesday its high-profile chief of film production would leave the company, part of a move to boost profits at its studio division that include cutting annual movie production and eliminating 650 jobs.

MIAMI (Reuters) - Southeastern Massachusetts was under a storm watch on Thursday as Tropical Storm Beryl, the second cyclone of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season, headed north after sparing North Carolina.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Soaring gas prices and increasingly tight schedules are conspiring to keep consumers shopping from home this summer, according to a survey released on Friday.

AP - A wildfire sparked by lightning burned about a mile from homes Friday but posed no immediate danger, officials said.

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - Online sports betting firms employing thousands of Costa Ricans could turn away U.S. gamblers after the arrest in Texas this week of a leading industry executive, but for now it remains business as usual.

AP - Both terminals at John Wayne Airport were temporarily evacuated Sunday evening and passengers were taken off airplanes after a female passenger made it past a security checkpoint without being screened, authorities said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Stem cells taken from human fat can be transformed into smooth muscle cells, offering a way to treat many kinds of heart disease, gastrointestinal and bladder ills, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc. will apply for approval to sell a new heart treatment as a single pill, rather than only in combination with its top selling Lipitor, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, quoting a company executive.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The U.S. government's crackdown on media indecency could prevent World War Two veterans from sharing their stories in an upcoming TV documentary series by Ken Burns, the head of the Public Broadcasting Service said on Wednesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Tennessee Titans signed their top draft pick Vince Young to a deal on Thursday that could net the quarterback $58 million over the next six years.

AP - The caretakers of Ernest Hemingway's Key West home want a federal judge to intervene in their dispute with the U.S. Department of Agriculture over the six-toed cats that roam the property.

AP - Three brothers and a friend were killed in a neighborhood not far from the French Quarter, and two other people were gunned down in separate incidents hours later, authorities said Saturday.

AP - Dorothy Washington's friends in Philadelphia thought she was crazy to come to New Orleans.