FCC- Cable viewers can't pay by channels watched

WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators rejected on Friday the idea that allowing cable TV subscribers to pay only for channels they want would lower high cable bills. Consumer groups said the analysis was flawed. In a report to Congress, the Federal Communications Commission said cable bills would increase under a system that would let people pay for individual channels instead of the bundled packages they currently are offered. The analysis by FCC staff found the average cable household watches about 17 channels, including over-the-air stations.

Judge releases one girl in poisoned cake case

MARIETTA, Ga. -- One of two 13-year-old girls accused of serving poisoned cake to classmates was allowed to go home Friday, but a judge ordered the other girl to remain in custody. A judge freed one of the girls after hearing testimony that she was an honor student and cheerleader with no history of discipline problems. Authorities believe she took part in baking the cake but not in giving it to classmates. The other girl returned to a youth-detention center where she has been since her arrest Wednesday. The two face charges for allegedly baking a cornbread cake that contained bleach, glue and hot-pepper sauce and giving it to students.

Deathbed murder plea proved by freezer find

BOSTON -- For more than a decade, Geraldine Kelley told her children their father had been killed when he stepped in front of a car in a drunken haze. That changed last week with Kelley's deathbed confession to her daughter that she'd killed John Kelley about 13 years ago. Kelley claimed her husband had abused her for years. Authorities on Thursday found human remains in a locked, unplugged freezer in a rented storage room.

-- From wire reports