SF Gate/AP: After 9 1/2 years, firefighter speaks

Orchard Park NY- nearly 9 and one half years after he was left brain damaged and almost mute after a 1995 fire, Donald Herbert did something that shocked family and doctors. He asked for his wife.

ABCnews/AP:the Treasury Duck takes off with her young in tow

Washington DC-After four weeks protected by the Secret Service, the mother mallard who had become a tourist attraction one block from the White House, was transferred to a nearby park after her eleven ducklings hatched Saturday. The transfer was planned like a military operation, and eventually, mom and her ducklings took off in a line up a nearby quietly flowing stream.