More than 2,000 residents flee their homes as a wildfire rages in the Santa Cruz Mountains, while firefighters battle other blazes throughout the state. "I thought of volcano lava the way it was moving in through the trees," says one woman who lives near Swanton, Calif. "If it had kept going like that, it would have headed right to my house."

A Rhode Island mother arrives at a day care center to pick up her 9-month-old son and finds the center locked, with boy inside. Workers had apparently forgotten the child was there and taken off for the night, leaving the baby alone.

Now that the "statute of limitations" has expired on many of his secrets, Dick Cheney is opening up about his relationship with former President George W. Bush. The ex-vice president, according to The Washington Post, feels Bush largely ignored him and succumbed to moral weakness in their second White House stint.
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A signed copy of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' sells for $34,900 at an auction in England. The manifesto was written in 1924 while Hitler was serving a four-year prison term in the southern German region of Bavaria. The second-edition book is believed to be a prepublication copy given by Hitler to a fellow inmate.

The Secret Service is investigating a man who held a "Death to Obama" poster while protesting the president's health-care reform plan. The unidentified man displayed the sign, which also read "Death to Michelle and her two stupid kids," outside a town hall meeting on health care reform and was detained by authorities.

A rowing team comes to the rescue of a pilot after his plane crashes in the Irish Sea. "It was a one in a million chance that we happened to be in a remote part of Ireland rowing past," rower Oliver Dudley says.

A former Abercrombie & Fitch worker who accused the chain's London store of relegating her to the stockroom because of her prosthetic arm is awarded $15,000. A tribunal rules that store managers harassed Riam Dean, 22, by refusing to allow her to cover her prosthetic arm with a long-sleeved cardigan.