AP - NASA is waiting for a break in Florida's rainy weather so the space shuttle Atlantis can return home on schedule.

AP - A military jet crashed during a training mission over the Mojave Desert, killing the pilot and injuring another crewman who ejected, the Air Force said Friday.

AP - It was a humbling moment for the former commander in chief: President George W. Bush was walking former first dog Barney in his new Dallas neighborhood when it stopped in a neighbor's yard for relief.

AP - A mother playing with her children at a park spotted a little black sneaker sticking out of the sand underneath the playground equipment. Figuring a youngster had lost his shoe, she bent down to pick it up. It was strangely heavy.

AP - The four men accused of plotting to bomb New York City synagogues and shoot down military airplanes with missiles are down-and-out ex-convicts living on the margins in a faded industrial city.

AP - An ex-soldier convicted of raping and killing an Iraqi teen and murdering her family has been sentenced to life in prison in a case that drew attention to the emotional and psychological strains on soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

AP - The Massachusetts man who received the nation's second face transplant asked for a mirror four days after the operation.

AP - Suspended NFL star Michael Vick arrived at his Virginia home in a car with blackout curtains Thursday after being released from federal prison to begin home confinement and try to resume his pro football career.

AP - Swine flu forced Christina Huitron to make a choice no mother should ever have to make.

AP - Socialite Brooke Astor didn't recognize Kofi Annan at a dinner party she was throwing for him, wondering who "that black fellow" was, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger testified Thursday.