SPB News for Saturday.

Judge: Bush Should Be Deposed In Lawsuit Over Presidential Library

Poll: 18% of Texans back secession

Clinton On Raul Castro: "We Welcome This Overture"

Only 5 Out Of 400 Dodd Donors From Connecticut

Texas House slashes governor's budget

Vote to cut Perry's office budget by 96% seen as rebuke to secession talk.

King family earns $800K on monument

Meeting with Obama for credit execs

Ottawa willing to let GM, Chrysler collapse

McCain Guru Urges GOP to Back Gay Marriage — ABC News' Teddy Davis reports: — Former top McCain adviser Steve Schmidt is planning to use a Friday speech to the Log Cabin Republicans to urge the GOP to drop its opposition to same-sex marriage. — “I'm confident American public opinion …

Elderly Floridians may need driver's license, passport or state ID to vote --Democrats, NAACP, ACLU and other groups argued measure would make it harder for senior citizens to vote --'Ethics' and Elections Committee approved bill on 5-3 party-line vote Elderly Floridians may need a driver’s license, passport or state identification card to vote under a sweeping elections bill that won approval from a Senate committee Thursday but drew opposition from voting rights groups. Seniors would be affected by a provision that would no longer recognize retirement center or neighborhood association photo IDs at the polls.

US regulators close American Sterling Bank Bank regulators closed American Sterling Bank on Friday, the 24th U.S. bank to fail this year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp said Missouri-based American Sterling had $181 million in assets and $171.9 million in deposits. The failure is expected to cost the FDIC deposit insurance fund an estimated $42 million.

Texas Senate defies Perry, votes to take stimulus money for jobless fund In a sharp rebuff of Gov. Rick Perry (R-Insane), the Senate on Thursday tentatively voted to accept $555 million in unemployment aid from the federal economic stimulus plan. Senators voted 22-9 in favor of a bill by Sen. Kevin Eltife, R-Tyler, that would authorize state officials to receive the stimulus money to shore up Texas' trust fund for unemployed workers.

U.S. papers shed 5,900 journalists in 2008 American daily newspapers cut 5,900 newsroom jobs in 2008, according to a survey from the American Society of News Editors. The group says this was the steepest cut since the survey began in 1978. This year's tally counted 46,700 newsroom jobs, down from a 1990 peak of 56,900.

Calif. unemployment surges to record State officials say California's unemployment rate hit a record 11.2 percent in March. The figures released Friday by the Employment Development Department show California lost 62,000 jobs in March.

US Attorney Hanaway joining Ashcroft law firm

NC unemployment hits new record North Carolina's unemployment rate increased slightly in March to 10.8 percent. That according to statistics released Friday by the N.C. Employment Security Commission. The rate increased by a tenth of a percentage point over-the-month from 10.7 percent in February. 10.8 percent is the highest unemployment numbers have been since the current method of calculating statistics were adopted in the 1970's.