HOUSTON (AP) — After accepting more than 11,000 Hurricane Katrina refugees, officials said the Astrodome was full and began sending buses to other shelters in the Houston area Thursday night. “We’ve actually reached capacity for the safety and comfort of the people inside there,” American Red Cross spokeswoman Dana Allen said. Buses that continued to…

RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. (AP) — Checking himself out in the weight-room mirror, 16-year-old Marshell Sailor flexes his right arm and smiles wide. He’s admiring the new muscle that helped him win a spot as starting defensive tackle on the varsity football team at Cordova High School in suburban Sacramento. Sailor credits the strength to hard…

By CHRISTY LEMIRE / AP Movie Critic Eddie Murphy, your legacy is safe. Sure, you’ve moved away from the fast-talking, smart-mouthed shtick that helped catapult you to stardom in ’80s movies like “48 Hours” and “Beverly Hills Cop,” and into warmer, fuzzier family fare. Seeing young Nick Cannon feebly pilfer your act in “Underclassman” only…

PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The quick jump of gasoline prices to $3 and beyond per gallon has created headaches for some gas stations in small communities using older mechanical pumps not equipped to register the higher prices. While most stores in the Big Sandy Valley of eastern Kentucky have raised prices to $3.29 a gallon…

By DAVID GERMAIN / AP Movie Writer It really was unnecessary, an adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s short story “A Sound of Thunder,” about time travelers whose misstep among dinosaurs 65 million years ago changes the course of evolution, with devastating consequences in the present. After all, one of those Halloween specials on “The Simpsons” already…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are worried about fast-rising gasoline prices and want President Bush and Congress to make that their top domestic priority, according to an AP-Ipsos poll. With gas prices soaring toward $4 a gallon and fuel supply lines crippled by Hurricane Katrina, 24 percent of those polled listed fuel prices as their chief…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans descended into anarchy Thursday, as corpses lay abandoned in street medians, fights and fires broke out and storm survivors battled for seats on the buses that would carry them away from the chaos. The tired and hungry seethed, saying they had been forsaken. “I’m not sure I’m going to…

By DAVID GERMAIN / AP Movie Writer The world’s baddest mailman is back and going postal on everyone in his way, including viewers suffering through the insufferable “Transporter 2.” This laughably awful sequel with Jason Statham returning as the crackerjack, no-questions-asked driver for hire is a pathetic affair riffing on some of the highpoints that…

NASHVILLE (AP) — A woman who sought to change her sexual orientation through faith-based counseling is suing her female therapist, contending she was manipulated into having a homosexual relationship with the therapist. Beverly A. Grubb, 59, alleges that Phyllis Garrison, a licensed clinical social worker at TrueHope for the Best Alternative in Brentwood, led her…

OAK RIDGE (AP) — Remotely operated machine guns mounted in hardened cases that open like clam shells have been deployed for the first time at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant, and may soon be used at other nuclear bomb installations. National Nuclear Security Administration officials demonstrated one of the weapon systems Thursday at the Y-12…