AP - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was celebrated Saturday for "the good he did, the dream he kept alive," his funeral inside a soaring Catholic church a memorial to one man's life and a remarkable political era now ended.

AP - Jaycee Lee Dugard has been subjected to what police say was nearly a lifetime of torment in a backyard compound set up by a religious zealot with a rap sheet dating to the 1970s. Prosecutors say she was raped and had two children by her captor, who hid her from the outside world.

AP - A growing wildfire in the mountains north of Los Angeles spread over nearly 9 square miles of bone-dry forest, forcing evacuations and sending up massive billows of smoke that were hampering air operations, officials said.