ST. FRANCIS, Wis. (AP)  A good Samaritan thwarted a bank robbery in Wisconsin by jumping on an armed man.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP)  The pastor of a Florida church is adamant that he was promised that officials planning an Islamic center near ground zero in New York would move it if he canceled his plans to burn Qurans on Sept. 11.

DALLAS (AP)  A series of weak tornadoes spawned by the remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine hit the Dallas area, injuring at least one person.

MIAMI (AP)  Forecasters say Hermine has weakened to a tropical depression.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP)  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is the latest official to condemn the plans of a Florida church leader to burn copies of the Quran on September 11.

UNDATED (AP)  A hurricane watch has been issued for the coasts of Texas and Mexico in the Gulf as Tropical Storm Hermine approaches.

NEW YORK (AP)  JetBlue Airways says that there will be no second exits for Steven Slater -- the flight attendant who captured the nation's imagination with his profanity-laced loudspeaker tirade and jump down a plane's emergency chute, beer in hand.

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP)  The failed blowout preventer, a key piece of evidence in the Gulf oil spill, is heading for a NASA facility in Louisiana where it will be analyzed.

MIAMI (AP)  Earl is weakening on its way toward New England, and the once powerful hurricane is now a tropical storm.

NEW ORLEANS, LA (AP)  An oil platform exploded and burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months.