A federal appeals court says Anna Nicole Smith’s estate will receive none of the more than $300 million that she claimed her late billionaire husband had promised her. Source:Anna Nicole estate denied piece of oil fortune

As the Red River swells again, Fargo, N.D., residents are weighing the National Weather Service forecasts. They are well aware that predicting what happens on the river is not an exact science. Source:In Fargo, no guarantees in flood forecasts

A man who acted as a lawyer for U.S. missionaries who were detained in Haiti has now been arrested in the Dominican Republic on migrant-trafficking charges. Source:‘Lawyer’ to U.S. missionaries in Haiti arrested

Almost seven years after the first bombs in the war to oust Saddam Hussein, Iraqis went about their business Friday with little observance of the anniversary, looking to the future with a mixture of trepidation and hope. Source:Little fanfare for 7th anniversary of war in Iraq

Automakers will see steep increases in March sales as steep discounts and incentives are luring recession-weary shoppers back into showrooms, market research firms said Friday. Source:Vehicle sales to surge in March: analysts

AP - Cheesecake in hand, the police commissioner personally apologized Friday for the 50 or so mistaken, door-pounding visits that police have made to the home of a bewildered elderly Brooklyn couple in the past eight years. Source:NYC cops sorry for pounding couple's door 50 times (AP)

Reuters - Eight years after the fall of the Taliban, who banned television and barred women from appearing in public without an all-enveloping burqa, the Afghan government is fighting a losing battle to keep female flesh off TV. Source:Losing the battle to keep female flesh off Afghan TV (Reuters)

AP - It was a bold response to skyrocketing health insurance premiums. President Barack Obama would give federal authorities the power to block unreasonable rate hikes. Source:Final health bill omits some of Obama's promises (AP)

AP - One by one, Democratic fence-sitters began choosing sides Friday, and the long, turbulent struggle over landmark health care legislation tilted unmistakably in President Barack Obama’s direction. Source:End in sight, health care battle tilts Obama's way (AP)

Reuters - China on Friday said it was sending an envoy to Washington to try to ease trade frictions as its currency regime comes under fire, warning that threats from U.S. legislators could stifle room for progress. Source:China tries to cool yuan dispute with U.S. (Reuters)