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McCain taps Alaska governor for VP (AP) -

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin listens to a question during a press conference with victims of the Exxon Valdez oil spill at the National Press Club in February 2008 in Washington, DC. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign on Friday blasted his Republican rival's choice of Palin as a running-mate, highlighting her AP - Republican John McCain introduced first-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate Friday, a stunning selection of a little-known conservative newcomer who relishes fighting the establishment.


Jennifer Aniston will make a return visit to NBC (AP) -

In this April 14, 2007 file photo, actress Jennifer Aniston arrives to the 18th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, file)AP - Jennifer Aniston will return home to NBC, the TV network where she became a breakout star on the hit sitcom "Friends."


In New Orleans, no shelter for those who stay (AP) -

Bill Lister (R) holds a support for window covering while Tyler Malejko saws in New Orleans in preparation for Hurricane Gustav. Exactly three years after deadly Hurricane Katrina slammed New Orleans, authorities on Friday begin bussing people out of the city ahead of the possible landfall of Gustav, forecast to hit the area early Tuesday as a powerful Category Three hurricane.(AFP/Matthew Hinton)AP - Police with bullhorns plan to go street to street this weekend with a tough message about getting out ahead of Hurricane Gustav: This time there will be no shelter of last resort. The doors to the Superdome will be locked. Those who stay will be on their own.


John Edwards to emerge from seclusion for speech (AP) -

In this undated image rendered from video and provided by Extra, Rielle Hunter is shown during an interview. Edwards' political action committee paid $100,000 in a four-month span to a newly formed firm run by Rielle Hunter, who directed the production of four Web videos. (AP Photo/Extra)AP - In a return to the public stage, John Edwards has confirmed plans to talk politics a month after admitting to an extramarital affair. But his wife won't be at his side.


Hide-and-seek turns up abandoned baby in bushes (AP) - AP - A 6-year-old girl playing hide-and-seek with her grandmother found a newborn baby girl abandoned in a vacant lot next to her home.
2 airliners nearly collide over Caribbean (AP) - AP - Federal authorities say two airliners were a minute away from colliding when they turned away from each other over the Caribbean this week.
Timeline of Palin's life and career (AP) -

In this photo provided by the Department of Defense, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin talks to Nome Alaska native 1st Sgt. Dewey Green, at the training village on Camp Beuhring, Kuwait, on July 24, 2007. Republican John McCain introduced first-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. (AP Photo/Department of Defense, Pvt. Christopher T. Grammer)AP - A timeline of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's life and career:


Mom of missing Fla. girl won't return to jail (AP) -

This Aug. 21, 2008 file photo shows Casey Anthony, mother of missing toddler Caylee, being escorted from the Orange County Florida jail by her attorney Jose Baez, right, after posting a $500,000 bond in Orlando, Fla. Anthony tried to give her missing 3-year-old daughter up for adoption before she was born, but her mother wouldn't let her, according to legal documents that paint the 22-year-old Florida woman as a perplexed, scheming and unbalanced person who repeatedly defended obvious lies in police reports. (AP Photo/Reinhold Matay, file)AP - A bounty hunter who helped free the mother of a missing Florida toddler said Friday that he won't try to withdraw her bail after all.