- Arizona tribes talk significance of solar eclipse
- Men accused of plotting attacks around NATO summit
 CHICAGO (AP) — Three activists who traveled to Chicago for a NATO summit were accused Saturday of manufacturing Molotov cocktails in a plot to attack President Barack Obama's campaign headquarters, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's home and other targets.
But defense lawyers shot back that Chicago police had trumped up the charges to frighten peaceful protesters away, telling a judge it was undercover officers known by the activists as "Mo" and "Gloves" who brought the firebombs to a South Side apartment where the men were arrested.
"This is just propaganda to create a climate of fear," Michael Deutsch said.
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- Coast Guard searches for 5 missing Fla. boaters
HUDSON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The search continues for two adults and three children last heard making a distress call as their boat took on water in the Gulf of Mexico north of Tampa Bay.
The Coast Guard and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission rescue teams began searching for the group after receiving a distress call early Saturday morning from a commercial shrimp facility.
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- Climber dies after falling on Alaska's McKinley
DENALI NATIONAL PARK and PRESERVE, Alaska (AP) — National Park officials say a climber has died of injuries after falling during a climb of Alaska's Mount McKinley.
A park release Saturday says the climber fell about 1,100-feet Friday, while following the West Buttress route to the summit.
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- Fire engulfs La. frat house, no serious injuries
RUSTON, La. (AP) — A fire gutted a Louisiana Tech University fraternity house on Saturday, resulting in minor injuries to three firefighters but none to students.
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- Mary Kennedy is mourned at private funeral in NY
 CENTERVILLE, Mass. (AP) — Mary Richardson Kennedy has been buried at a cemetery in Centerville, Mass., several miles from the Kennedy seaside compound in Hyannisport, just hours after a funeral outside New York City.
Mary's estranged husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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- NAACP backs same-sex marriage as civil right
MIAMI (AP) — The NAACP passed a resolution Saturday endorsing same-sex marriage as a civil right and opposing any efforts "to codify discrimination or hatred into the law.
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- No signs of 4 people missing after Iowa boat crash
 Crews searched Saturday for four people missing after an overnight boat crash on the Mississippi River in Iowa, although one official said it was mostly a recovery effort.
Iowa Department of Natural Resources spokesman Kevin Baskins said the timing of the collision, about 1:45 a.m.
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- Tight security, gnats for the press corps
 CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) — Freedom of the press is a bit different at the G-8 summit.
At Camp David, a highly secure compound in the woods ringed by layers of security fences, the movements of reporters and photographers covering the summit have been restricted and tightly monitored by Marines in park green polo shirts and khakis.
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- Cool weather aids in fight against Colo. wildfire
 DENVER (AP) — Lower temperatures and higher humidity Saturday were helping crews assigned to a wildfire that has scorched 12 square miles in northern Colorado, one of several burning across the West.
The fire, which started Monday about 20 miles northwest of Fort Collins, had prompted officials to evacuate about 80 homes, but all residents were allowed to return by Friday night.
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