AP - With a furious legal and political battle raging outside her hospice room, doctors removed Terri Schiavo's feeding tube Friday after a judge rebuffed an unprecedented attempt by Congress to keep the brain-damaged woman alive.
AP - Former Gov. John G. Rowland was sentenced to a year in prison and four months' house arrest Friday for selling his office in a corruption scandal that destroyed his career as one of the Republican Party's brightest and fastest-rising stars.
AP - A registered sex offender admitted Friday that he kidnapped and killed a 9-year-old girl who disappeared from her bedroom more than three weeks ago and told police where they could find her body, authorities said.
Convicted sex offender John Evander Couey has admitted to abducting and killing 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, the Citrus County sheriff said Friday. Investigators are searching the area around the home where Couey was staying when Jessica disappeared three weeks ago.
Lawyers for the U.S. House filed an appeal Friday night with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking justices to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman whose feeding tube was disconnected in the afternoon. It is the latest legal manuever in a day of courtroom action on the case.