Some evacuees near Colo. wildfire go home

Deanna Laney departed the 114th District Court, following closing arguments in her capital murder trial Saturday in Tyler, Texas. Laney, 39, had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to murder in the deaths of 8-year-old Joshua and 6-year-old Luke, and serious injury to a child for the beating of Aaron, now 2. A photo image of Aaron (AP Photo/Tom Worner, Pool)LAPORTE, Colo. -- Cool, wet weather Saturday helped firefighters trying to contain an 8,700-acre wildfire that has burned for five days, and most of the roughly 150 evacuated residents were being allowed to return home. The state's first significant wildfire of the season has destroyed a house and a garage, and threatened other homes and outbuildings. The fire west of Fort Collins in northern Colorado was 30 percent contained Saturday afternoon. It began Tuesday when a yard fire got out of control.

Second fugitive in Ark. trooper shooting arrested

COAL HILL, Ark. -- Police arrested a second man Saturday for shooting a state trooper and continued the search for his missing neighbor, who they fear may be dead. William J. Frazier, 28, was arrested on a rural highway, said a state police spokesman. He was jailed on charges of attempted capital murder and felony possession of a firearm. Authorities had been searching for Frazier and Mark Holsombach, 49, in the Ozark Mountains and adjacent rural communities since March 22, the day a state trooper was wounded by gunfire. Police said several officers attempted to serve arrest warrants on both men, who lived together in a ramshackle cabin in a small mountain community. Holsombach was wanted for firearm possession and Frazier for theft.

Powell: Russian worried by NATO expansion

WASHINGTON -- Despite repeated assurances by President Bush, the Russians remain needlessly worried about the expansion of NATO closer to their border, Secretary of State Colin Powell says. The alliance, in weighing new weapons and deploying four F-16 fighters in the Baltics, is mounting a defense against "other new threats that are out there," Powell said Friday. In Moscow, meanwhile, President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia did not fear the expansion of NATO, but asserted that NATO's eastward march would not improve international security.

Family: Police warned of dangerous son

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. -- The parents of a man suspected of killing the manager of a state unemployment office and wounding an employee had warned police that their son might go to the office with a gun, a relative said. William Case, who was arrested about an hour after the shooting behind a nearby store, is charged with murder and attempted murder, police said. Witnesses told police that Case, 30, was upset about unemployment benefits he thought he should receive.

-- From wire reports