Updated: 2:55 PM A crematory operator accused of faking hundreds of cremations in Noble, Georgia, appears ready to plead guilty.

Updated: 2:50 PM Jury selection in the Robert Blake murder trial begins in Los Angeles.

Updated: 1:56 PM President Bush says he sees a "great chance" for creating a Palestinian state in the aftermath of Yasser Arafat's death.

Updated: 11:37 AM More than 20 stations won't be showing Saving Private Ryan.

Updated: 2:49 PM As expected, the Federal Reserve has boosted a key short-term interest rate by a-quarter of a point.

Updated: 2:05 PM Sept. 11 victims have collected more than $38 billion in compensation from insurance companies, the government and charities.

Updated: 2:48 PM An impassioned apology from James McGreevey in his farewell address as governor of New Jersey.

Updated: 11:25 AM Reagan shooter Hinckley seeks more time away from psychiatric hospital.

Updated: 2:42 PM General Motors is recalling about one and-a-half million cars in four separate recalls.

Updated: 2:38 PM Textbooks in Texas changed to define marriage as between man and woman.

Updated: 2:37 PM Giuliani doesn't rule out serving in Bush administration.

Updated: 2:34 PM The Tennessee Valley Authority has spent $30 million since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on new barriers, guard towers and other security enhancements for its three nuclear stations.

Updated: 2:32 PM Selection process begins for Auburn University trustee.

Updated: 2:16 PM The Labor Department is reporting the fastest level of jobs creation in six months. Non-farm payrolls rose by 337,000 jobs last month.

Updated: 2:14 PM Alabama Health Department plans 92,000 more flu shots.

Updated: 2:13 PM A Republican state senator says he will introduce a new version of an amendment to remove segregationist language from the Alabama Constitution in the Alabama Legislature.

Updated: 1:40 PM Rudolph attorneys seek to show agents spread key evidence.

Updated: 1:38 PM Police in Troy say the shooting deaths of a man and a female teenager were ruled a murder-suicide.

Updated: 10:24 AM Flu vaccine spoils in hospital's refrigerator.

Updated: 12:19 PM Defense makes closing arguments as Peterson trial nears its end.

Updated: 12:18 PM New documents show a Buford man who died in March at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta had received blood that was improperly matched by the American Red Cross.

Posted: 12:34 PM The nation's highest court says it will decide if local governments can be sued for failing to enforce retraining orders.

Updated: 11:51 AM The Army has incinerated the last of more than 42,000 sarin-filled rockets stored in bunkers at Anniston Army Depot.

Updated: 12:13 PM Florida elections building searched after suspicious package reported.

Updated: 11:57 AM After 23 weeks of testimony, the Scott Peterson double-murder case will soon be in the hands of the jury.