LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A former O.J. Simpson crony says the former football star confessed to killing his ex-wife.
 

PICHER, Okla. (AP) -- Many have fled this depressed, pollution-scarred mining town. Those who have chosen to stay or have not yet relocated face a new heartache. 

Severe storms swept across the southeast, damaging homes and businesses. Authorities in central North Carolina are searching through the wreckage caused by a reported tornado that killed one person and injured three others. Across the southeast the storm system left behind splintered buildings and rattled nerves.  

FRANKLIN, TN -- An act of vandalism caught on tape lead to a student revolt at one Tennessee high school earlier last week. It all began when a pair of boys broke into the school, spray-painted messages on the floors and walls, stashed bags of fish in the ceiling and ransacked several rooms.  

HARRISON TOWNSHIP, PA -- A Pennsylvania Middle School principal is back on the job after being busted in an undercover sex-sting. 

EUCLID, OH -- What is a 23-cent pizza worth? One man paid for it with a night in jail. The man was arrested after breaking in at the Papa John's in Euclid, Ohio during a 23-cent pizza promotion that quickly turned ugly. 

MINNEAPOLIS, MN -- It was something that had never occurred to Jane Flannigan, until she got the call Sunday that her eight-year-old son had been hit by a car while biking with a friend.  

AVON, CT -- Charges may be filed against a school bus driver after a child fell from a moving bus window in Avon, Connecticut.  

SIBLEY COUNTY, MN -- Tony Klaseus will have a tough time if his case goes to a jury, according to Marsh Halberg, a Twin Cities criminal defense attorney.  

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Hezbollah gunmen melted off the streets of Beirut Saturday, heeding an army call to pull the fighters out after the Shiite militants demonstrated their military might in a power struggle with the U.S.-backed government.  

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- Hundreds of rebels from war-ravaged Darfur clashed with Sudanese security forces on the doorstep of the capital Saturday in a dramatic widening of the five-year-old conflict.  

CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) -- Jenna Bush couldn't see herself getting married at the White House surrounded by antique furniture and oil portraits of presidents. 

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's military rulers held a referendum Saturday aimed at solidifying their hold on power while brazenly turning cyclone relief efforts into a propaganda campaign. In some cases, generals' names were scribbled onto boxes of foreign aid before being distributed.  

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Barack Obama erased Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-imposing lead among superdelegates Saturday when he added more endorsements from the group of Democrats who will decide the party's nomination for president. 

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise.