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Winning Mega Millions ticket sold near Cincinnati
A lucky lottery player who stopped into a suburban Cincinnati liquor store has a Mega Millions ticket worth $196 million. (AP, 8:17 a.m.)
Artist covers old gas station with huge blanket
Jennifer Marsh was sick of paying high gas prices and bothered by the abandoned gas station that was an eyesore on the drive to her studio each day. (AP, 8:05 a.m.)
Chemist gets life for killing husband in acid vat
A biochemist was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Friday for killing her estranged husband by knocking him out and stuffing him into a vat of acid, possibly while he was still alive. (AP, 4:26 a.m.)
Ill fugitive headed back to Md. years after escape
An ailing 81-year-old North Carolina man who escaped from a Maryland prison 43 years ago was taken into custody Friday to face extradition, a move his attorneys decried as a waste of time because he is ill and aging. (AP, 4:16 a.m.)
Police find 3 decomposing bodies inside NJ home
Police found three decomposing bodies with multiple stab wounds inside a northern New Jersey home Friday night, a prosecutor said. (AP, 4:16 a.m.)
Same-sex marriage ruling also victory for SF mayor
Hours before the California Supreme Court issued its decision on gay marriage, Mayor Gavin Newsom heard rumblings that the justices would uphold the state's ban. (AP, 4:16 a.m.)
Mexicans arrested at filthy 'drop house' charged
Three Mexican men held dozens of illegal immigrants in a squalid "drop house" in South Los Angeles, where one woman was raped and others say they were threatened with sexual assault, authorities said Friday. (AP, 4:16 a.m.)
Olympian Montgomery gets 46 months for check fraud
Olympian Tim Montgomery had everything he ever wanted. Once known as the "world's fastest man," Montgomery won a silver medal in the 400 relay at the 1996 Olympics and gold in the same event in 2000. In 2002, he set a record of 9.78 seconds in the 100-meter dash. (AP, 8:16 a.m.)
Van jumps curb in NYC; trolley crashes in LA
An out-of-control van jumped a curb and barreled into bystanders near the entrance to a crowded subway station, killing the driver and hurting seven people, authorities said. (AP, 8:16 a.m.)
Court sides with MySpace in suit over sex assault
Federal law gives MySpace.com immunity from a lawsuit over the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl by a man she met on the social networking Web site, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. (AP, 4:14 a.m.)
Texas minister charged in Internet sex sting
A minister from a Dallas-area Baptist megachurch was caught in an Internet sex sting and charged with online solicitation of a minor, police said Friday. (AP, 4:13 a.m.)
Ex-chief of UCLA willed-bodies program indicted
A Los Angeles County grand jury has indicted the former head of UCLA's cadaver program on eight felony counts for allegedly trafficking in parts of bodies donated to the university. (AP, 2:46 a.m.)
FBI: Ohio man wrote threats because ex left him
A man who wrote hundreds of hateful letters to black and mixed race men seen with white women apparently was motivated by a girlfriend who left him for a black man, the FBI said Friday. (AP, 2:45 a.m.)
Wilder won't run for 2nd term as Richmond mayor
L. Douglas Wilder, the nation's first elected black governor, announced Friday that he would not seek re-election as Richmond's mayor, likely bringing his storied political career to a close. (AP, 4:15 a.m.)
Cops say boy, 8, took car for ride, caused crash
Authorities said an 8-year-old Pontiac boy took a stolen car on a joy ride and caused a three-vehicle crash. Pontiac police said the boy sneaked out of his house Wednesday night and found an empty and running car in his neighborhood. (AP, 2:27 a.m.)
Police say men trying to steal power lines shocked
Two Somerset County men are charged with trying to steal live power lines that were still attached to a transformer and utility poles. (AP, 2:27 a.m.)
Student suspended over pie thrown at NYT columnist
A Brown University student says she's been suspended for hitting a New York Times columnist with a pie during an Earth Day speech. (AP, 2:26 a.m.)
Palestinian-Americans mark 60 years displaced
Palestinians call it the "nakba" -- the catastrophe. As Israel marked the 60th anniversary of its independence Friday, Americans of Palestinian descent rallied near the United Nations to mark six decades of displacement from the sliver of land uneasily shared by Jews and Arabs. (AP, 2:26 a.m.)
NJ sex offenders charged for MySpace, Facebook use
Three convicted sex offenders have been arrested for surfing social networking Web sites and are believed to be the first charged under the state's new law that restricts their use of the Internet, authorities said Friday. (AP, 2:25 a.m.)
New commission to study WMDs announced
Soon after taking office, the next president will get some advice about how to prevent a nuclear attack on the U.S., researched and written by top experts on weapons of mass destruction. (AP, 2:25 a.m.)
Carnival ride collapses in California; 24 injured
A carnival ride spinning with people collapsed at a county fair Friday night, injuring all 24 people aboard. (AP, 8:17 a.m.)
Alabama sheriffs feed inmates on $1.75 a day
Back in the day of chain gangs, Alabama passed a law that gave sheriffs $1.75 a day to feed each prisoner in their jails, and the sheriffs got to pocket anything that was left over. More than 80 years later, most Alabama counties still operate under this system, with the same $1.75-a-day allowance, and some sheriffs are actually making money ... (AP, 2:10 a.m.)
Court rules Chicago not liable in club stampede
An Illinois appellate court ruled Friday that the city of Chicago cannot be held liable for a 2003 nightclub stampede that killed 21 people and injured dozens more. (AP, 2:08 a.m.)
Same-sex marriage ruling also victory for SF mayor
Hours before the California Supreme Court issued its decision on gay marriage, Mayor Gavin Newsom heard rumblings that the justices would uphold the state's ban. (AP, 1:36 a.m.)
Calif. wine patriarch Robert Mondavi dies at 94
Robert Mondavi, the vintner who built his career and helped an iconic Northern California industry blossom by insisting that Napa Valley wines can compete with the best in the world, died in the valley Friday. He was 94. (AP, 4:28 a.m.)
