AP - A lonely little robot made millions of friends during the weekend — and even outgunned Angelina Jolie.

AP - Making cannoli is serious business in New York. It's a dessert so tempting that even a hit man in the "Godfather" couldn't leave a box behind.

AP - Revelers at San Francisco's gay pride parade are celebrating their newfound freedom to marry as the city's 38th annual march got under way with a matrimonial touch.

AP - Firefighters are making slow progress against more than 1,000 wildfires throughout Northern California as the region braces for more lightning storms.

AP - The University of Georgia's mascot, Uga VI, has died of congestive heart failure.

AP - Nebraska's largest city struggled Saturday to restore power to thousands of residents a day after a severe storm damaged homes, uprooted trees and killed two people in a neighboring community.

AP - He thinks of her every time he gazes at the painting — a blazing orange sun she drew a few years after the tragedy. It is the only splash of color in his tiny K Street office and it gives him great joy, and a stab of sorrow.

AP - For at least a decade, the Supreme Court has declined to rule on the use of lethal injections and whether the death penalty applies to anyone who rapes a child. In its term ending Friday, the high court issued decisions on both, but neither solves the bitter fight over capital punishment.

AP - A heart transplant survivor has added another first to her long string of mountaineering feats since getting a new heart 13 years ago — a dangerous 2 1/2-day climb up the sheer, 2,000-foot face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park's famed granite monolith.