WASHINGTON -- A federal judge on Friday set former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's trial date in the CIA leak case for January 2007, two months after the midterm congressional elections.

CENTREVILLLE, Ala. -- Five small Baptist churches were burned to the ground or otherwise damaged in a string of fires that investigators said were apparently set one after another by arsonists making their way down the highway.

LAKE BUTLER, Fla. -- A truck driver who plowed into a car at a school bus stop last week, pushing it into a school bus and killing seven children, had been awake for 34 hours, except for a short nap, an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday.

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton gathered checks from Hollywood friends, John Kerry's wife and even a former Republican congressman, but records filed Friday show she returned cash from an even older ally -- Wal-Mart.

HOUSTON -- An attorney for one of three people accused in the nation's deadliest human smuggling attempt argued Friday that his client hadn't physically done anything to cause the 19 deaths, and another lawyer blamed federal immigration policies.