AP - Steven Kazmierczak's quiet, dependable and fun-loving exterior masked troubling details from his past that emerged as a stunned community struggled to understand what caused the 27-year-old to open fire on a class at Northern Illinois University, leaving six people dead.

AP - President Bush insisted his administration is "plenty active" in the turmoil now roiling nearly every corner of Africa, but said his trip to the continent that began Saturday is focused more on its successes than its conflicts.

AP - Thousands turned out Saturday to bury a slain opposition lawmaker as political rivals struggled to agree on a power-sharing plan to resolve the violent, drawn-out election crisis in Kenya.