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A hot air balloon carrying NFL wide receiver Donte' Stallworth and his girlfriend hit power lines near Miami on Saturday. NBC’s Lester Holt reports. (Nightly News)

  The trial of two Ohio high school football players accused of raping an incapacitated 16-year-old girl resumed on Saturday with two former friends of the accuser testifying that she had a reputation for dishonesty.

The prosecution and defense in the trial of two Ohio high school football players charged with raping an incapacitated 16-year-old girl rested their cases and the judge said he would announce his verdict on Sunday morning.

Hundreds marched through the streets of Chicago on Saturday to protest the city’s violence that claimed 6-month-old baby Jonylah Watkins on March 12.

Nearly 20 years after being ripped apart from his foster parents, a 32-year-old man was officially adopted Friday in San Diego, Calif., by the woman he has always considered to be his mother. Maurice Griffin was abandoned as a baby.

See images from the festivities from New York to Moscow.

BP launched its promised appeal against "fictitious" and "absurd" oil spill compensation payouts on Friday and asked a judge to temporarily halt those made on a so-called business economic loss basis.

Along Southern California's pristine coastline, ailing sea lions are turning up in record numbers.

  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker sketched out a vision of conservative leadership during a Saturday morning speech to CPAC that could serve as the underpinnings of a future run for the White House.