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• Today In History

  Today is Saturday, June 2, the 154th day of 2012. There are 212 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 637 - Arab Muslim army vanquishes Persians at battle of Al-Qadisiyya, opening Persia to Arab conquest.

  05/25/2012 8:00 PM

• Bus driver taking kids to Disneyland arrested

  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Authorities in southern Utah say they averted a potential deadly road trip after arresting a bus driver for DUI just before he was to take a group of recent high school graduates to Disneyland. Brandon Gillman

  05/25/2012 7:17 PM

• US school agrees to stop handcuffing students

  JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) Public schools in Jackson, Mississippi, will no longer handcuff students to poles or other objects and will train staff at its alternative school on better methods of discipline. Mississippi's second-largest school district agreed Friday to the settlement

  05/25/2012 7:16 PM

• Ex-Penn State president sues, eyes Sandusky emails

  STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Former Penn State University president Graham Spanier has filed a civil lawsuit to force the school to release emails related to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. The lawsuit was filed late Friday in Centre

  05/25/2012 7:14 PM

• Senators seek to name bison 'national mammal'

  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) Western lawmakers want to elevate the Plains bison to a status similar to that of the iconic bald eagle with legislation to declare the burly beasts America's "national mammal." Bison advocates launched a "vote bison" public relations

  05/25/2012 7:10 PM

• Miss district agrees to stop handcuffing students

  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Jackson public schools will no longer handcuff students to poles or other objects and will train staff at its alternative school on better methods of discipline. Mississippi's second-largest school district agreed Friday to the settlement with the

  05/25/2012 7:00 PM

• After NYC beer museum tour, hop on over to its bar

  NEW YORK (AP) Beer was hip in New York long before hipsters were into craft brews, according to a new exhibit at the New-York Historical Society that traces the history of beer all the way back to drunken Colonial times.

  05/25/2012 6:51 PM

• Fast-moving wildfire burns nearly 20,000 acres

  NEWBERRY, Mich. (AP) A fast-moving wildfire fed by dry conditions in Michigan's Upper Peninsula continued to burn Friday, consuming nearly 20,000 acres and prompting evacuations of homes and sections of a state park, officials said. The Michigan Department of Natural

  05/25/2012 6:29 PM

• Kennedy widow asks Mass. grads to work for justice

  BOSTON (AP) The widow of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy has called on Boston College Law School graduates to use training from their Catholic education to work for justice. Catholic attorney Victoria Reggie Kennedy gave the keynote speech at Friday's graduation

  05/25/2012 6:14 PM

• Kan. gov. signs measure blocking Islamic law

  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a law aimed at keeping the state's courts or government agencies from basing decisions on Islamic or other foreign legal codes, and a national Muslim group's spokesman said Friday that a

  05/25/2012 6:02 PM