WASHINGTON -- President Bush said Friday that the government's financial rescue plan was aggressive enough and big enough to work, but would take time to fully kick in.
BERNALILLO, N.M. (AP) -- A balloon slammed into power lines during Albuquerque's annual hot air balloon fiesta Friday, setting off an explosion that sent burning debris flying as the apparatus disintegrated, authorities and witnesses said. One man was killed and another was critically injured.
ADRIAN, Mich. (AP) -- A 16-year-old Michigan girl has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for poisoning her grandmother with morphine.
OXFORD, MS -- A man from Dundee, Mississippi has learned his sentence after killing a bald eagle.
GENEVA (AP) -- The U.N. refugee agency says 100 migrants are feared drowned after being forced overboard by smugglers in the Gulf of Aden.
RICHMOND, VA (AP) -- Scientists have confirmed the second case of a "virgin birth" in a shark.
KNOXVILLE, TN (AP) -- Police say a customer in a Knoxville mall fatally shot a clothing store employee because he was upset about a previous clothing purchase.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is trying to assure anxious Americans that the United States is working aggressively to stabilize the nation's financial system despite the continuing plunge in the stock market.
WASHINGTON -- Police in Maryland said Thursday they are confident two girls found encased in ice in a basement freezer are the adopted daughters of a woman suspected of killing them.
NORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP, MI -- A semitrailer clipped the back of a bus overloaded with members of an Amish church group Thursday, flipping the bus onto its side and sending 14 people to the hospital, including several children, authorities said.
CAMP PENDLETON, CA -- A fire that's burned up to 1,900 acres on a Marine Corps explosive range in California is now contained.
IRONWOOD, MI -- Michigan teen Cody Rye is tackling what some would say the impossible.