AP - Lawmakers agreed unanimously Tuesday to snuff out new shops that sell pot-smoking paraphernalia in the heart of San Francisco's one-time hippie district.

AP - The woman at the controls of a transit train that plowed into another would have done anything to prevent the accident, friends and relatives said Tuesday, a day after the crash killed her and eight others.

AP - Phil Spector is hoping to get a few comforts of home in his new prison cell, and a television, iPod and computer access are at the top of his list.

AP - A 13-year-old boy with cancer who fled Minnesota to avoid chemotherapy said Tuesday he is angry a judge has ordered him to continue the treatment because doctors say it has significantly shrunk the size of his tumor.

AP - A weakening Tropical Storm Andres hit Mexico's coast south of the tourist resort of Puerta Vallarta with rain and wind on Wednesday, before heading out into the Pacific and brushing past the tip of Baja California.

AP - A transit operator on the job about three months in the nation's capital had just started her shift and took over an older train that federal safety officials had warned years earlier should be replaced.

AP - Karen Lasch and her family recently pulled over their car near a glacier-fed creek in Mount Rainier National Park, piling out for a glimpse of the snowcapped peak in the distance.

AP - An Ohio family of five recently went undercover in the nation's capital to help foil a cyber "terrorist attack." Their attire wasn't very suspicious: Shorts, T-shirts and jackets tied around their waists.

AP - A Michigan man who believed he was a toddler kidnapped in New York in 1955 said he was "stunned" to learn DNA testing disproved his suspicion and that he's still seeking his true identity.

AP - The daughters of President Barack Obama have helped inaugurate something new in San Francisco.

AP - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford will cut short a secretive Appalachian Trail hike and return to work Wednesday after revelations he'd been gone for four days with no contact with his staff, wife or state leaders.