ST. CATHARINES, Ontario -- A Canadian judge on Thursday agreed to release a U.S. citizen who survived a plunge over Niagara Falls and ordered him to stay out of Canada except for court appearances.

After his brother posted his bail of $1,000 Canadian ($760 U.S.), Kirk Jones spoke briefly with a swarm of reporters before leaving in a sports utility vehicle with a tabloid television crew.

"Monday, I feel like I reached out and touched the face of God and he smiled," Jones said of his plunge. "I'm feeling very happy to be alive. I ask no one to ever try such a stunt again."

The Canton, Mich., man is the only person known to have survived a plunge over the falls without a safety device.

Jones has said despair led him to plunge over the falls Monday. Police, however, said Jones was performing an illegal stunt and arrested him after he was released from a hospital Wednesday. Jones refused to comment on why a friend tried to videotape him as he went over the falls.

Jones, 40, spoke little during his brief appearance in a provincial court room except to say he understood the charges against him. He is charged with mischief and unlawfully performing a stunt.

Jones and a friend had been drinking vodka and Coke before heading to the falls, where Jones climbed a protective railing and floated feet first over the falls, prosecutors told the court.

"Well, you're lucky to be standing here," the judge told Jones.

Inspector Paul Forcier said police were reviewing the videotape made by Jones' friend, who has not been charged.

Jones' brother, Keith Jones, said he believes his brother was despondent.

"I believe it was more reaching out for attention," he said, noting that his brother is unemployed and not married. "He didn't really have a lot going for him."

Jones has told reporters that he had been suicidal but that the experience made him want to live. Authorities had suggested he was simply a daredevil -- the latest in a long line who have sought to conquer Niagara Falls over the last century.

Family and friends have said Jones had been considering the jump for years. Eric Fronek, 21, told ABC that his friend had discussed it in the past, but was driven to act by depression.

Husband of brain-damaged woman says he'll go to court next week

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- The husband of a brain-damaged woman at the center of a legal tug of war between her family members will go to court next week to fight Gov. Jeb Bush's order that reinserted her feeding tube, the husband's attorney said Thursday.

Michael Schiavo, husband of Terri Schiavo, will go back in court Monday to challenge the constitutionality of the governor's actions, attorney George Felos said.

Felos said his client has been bolstered by the outpouring of public support on his behalf.

"He's a fighter, and he's feeling in some ways encouraged," Felos said.

The legal battle is one of the nation's longest and most contentious right-to-die cases. Terri Schiavo has been in what doctors call a "persistent vegetative state" since 1990, when her heart stopped because of a chemical imbalance. Her eyes are open, but doctors say she has no consciousness.

Michael Schiavo contends that his wife told him she would rather die than be kept alive artificially, but family members dispute that. They believe she still could recover and have fought Michael Schiavo in court for a decade.

The tube was removed by a court order on Oct. 15, but the Legislature this week rushed through a bill designed to keep Terri Schiavo alive. Bush quickly invoked the law and ordered the feeding tube reinserted.

Felos said he plans to argue the new law violates an individual's right to refuse medical care.

Meanwhile, Terri Schiavo's parents and brother visited her for more than an hour Thursday in the hospice where she was transferred after the tube was reinserted.

"Terry is great, absolutely great. She has her color back. She's tired, but she just looks wonderful," said her father, Bob Schindler. "I think she's out of harm's way."

The night before, Terri appeared drawn and her eyes were rimmed with red, Schindler said.

Schindler said he asked his daughter if she wanted him to give her a kiss, and that she replied: "Uh-uh."

While her parents contend she responds to them, medical experts have testified that her expressions and utterances are involuntary reflexes.

The law approved this week requires that a guardian be appointed to represent Terri Schiavo's interests in court. Both sides were given five days to agree on a guardian. If they can't agree, the judge will appoint one.

College team bus crashes on way to tournament; no serious injuries reported

BLACKSBURG, S.C. -- A bus carrying Florida A&M University's cross-country team overturned on a highway Thursday morning on the way to a tournament.

Nineteen people were taken to a hospital, but none of the injuries appear life-threatening, said Steve Wong, spokesman for Upstate Carolina Medical Center in Gaffney.

The injuries were primarily cuts and bruises, and Wong said he expects most of the patients to be released Thursday.

Officials at the school in Tallahassee said the team was on its way to Greensboro, N.C., for a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference event.

The bus crashed on Interstate 85 near the South Carolina-North Carolina state line, about 115 miles south of their destination.

Ball State student faked cancer and took donations, prosecutors say

MUNCIE, Ind. -- A Ball State University student shaved her head and pretended to be deaf to convince people she had cancer and get them to give her money, prosecutors said.

Brookelyn Walters, 24, of Culver, is charged with forgery and theft and could get up to 15 years in prison if convicted.

Her lawyer, Jay T. Hirschauer, said Walters has repaid the money and is cooperating with authorities.

Prosecutors allege Walters faked having cancer since 2000, forging letters from doctors and starting a Web site to raise donations to pay for treatment she didn't actually need.

It's unclear how much money Walters received. The two theft charges refer to $676 for services of an interpreter the university provided after Walters convinced officials she was deaf and $1,000 donated by Kappa Delta sorority and Delta Chi fraternity.

University officials grew suspicious after problems arose stemming from Walters' request for the interpreter, said Richard Harris, director of Ball State's disability services.

Walters left school in May when university police began investigating. She had completed classes toward a special education major and hopes to work with deaf children, Hirschauer said.

Jury sides with Ga. taxi drivers who say they were cheated out of lottery jackpot

ATLANTA -- Six taxi drivers who said they were cheated out of their share of a $49.4 million lottery jackpot should receive portions of the winnings, a jury has ruled.

They still must try to collect the money, which was not held in escrow during the legal dispute.

One man was awarded $2 million; five others were awarded $346,357 each.

The jackpot from the May 4, 2001, Big Game drawing went to 23 other taxi drivers, who received about $2.1 million each before taxes.

The 23 drivers had argued that they were the only legitimate winners because only they contributed $5 each to that day's pool.

But the smaller group said they paid into the pool for earlier tickets, and those winnings were supposed to have been used to buy new tickets.

Real estate heir on trial for murder testifies victim showed aggressive behavior

GALVESTON, Texas -- Eccentric New York real estate heir Robert Durst said Thursday the 71-year-old neighbor he's accused of killing wasn't afraid of confrontation and often began arguments in public places.

But Durst, testifying as the first defense witness at his murder trial, said he grew accustomed to Morris Black's ways. He said the two shared an interest in guns and Jack Daniels whiskey.

Durst, 60, a son of New York skyscraper tycoon Seymour Durst, is accused of intentionally shooting Black in September 2001 and trying to hide the crime by cutting up the body and throwing the parts into Galveston Bay.

Durst's attorneys say their client accidentally shot Black in the face as they struggled for a gun after Black illegally entered his apartment.

On Thursday, Durst testified that Black claimed to be skilled with a gun, but he described how Black's pistol jammed once when the two were target shooting, and Black pointed the gun at him.

"I shouted, 'Point it down!' I was uncomfortable with him and the 9 millimeter," Durst said.

Durst also described a time that Black gave a man "a really big shove" because he mistakenly believed that Durst was talking to him.

"He would get into these arguments with people," Durst said.

Durst testified earlier that he left New York for Galveston to escape publicity after an investigation was reopened into the 1982 disappearance of his first wife, Kathleen.

"I think I must have been out of my mind," he said.

He said he arrived in Galveston dressed as a woman and planned never to use his real name again. Durst eventually shed his disguise.

On Wednesday, jurors spent nearly 20 minutes touring the shoreline where nearly all of Black's body parts, except for his head, were discovered. The parts washed ashore in trash bags that also contained a receipt with Durst's name on it.

Defense attorneys hoped the trip would convince jurors that authorities didn't search a large enough area and that Black's head - which could determine the cause of death - easily could have been lost.

Durst was arrested in October 2001. He was released on $300,000 bail, but then failed to appear for arraignment. He was arrested the following month in Bethlehem, Pa., where authorities said he tried to shoplift a sandwich from a grocery store even though he had $500 in his pocket.

The trial began with jury selection on Aug. 26 and is expected to last through at least October. Durst could be sentenced to five to 99 years in prison if convicted.

Jury convicts man of conspiracy to murder Sammy the Bull

NEW YORK -- A reputed hit man was convicted Thursday of plotting to kill mob turncoat Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano with a remote-control bomb for betraying the Gambino crime family.

Thomas "Huck" Carbonaro, 55, shrugged after the federal jury in Brooklyn found him guilty of conspiring to murder Gravano.

He could get up to 10 years in prison at sentencing Jan. 26.

The jury cleared him on two gun charges.

Gravano was called as a witness by the defense in hopes of showing that Carbonaro had no motive to kill Gravano.

On the stand, Gravano described himself as an expert hit man who would have made a difficult target and knew Carbonaro "from a mile away."

He also testified that he once was so close to Carbonaro that their families vacationed together in Florida to "get away from 'the life,' -- the everyday grind of being in Cosa Nostra."

Gravano, 57, was underboss of the Gambino family under John Gotti. He admitted to 19 murders as a mob hit man but served only five years in prison for helping prosecutors put Gotti and other Mafia figures away.

Prosecutors said Carbonaro and a mob associate located Gravano in 1999 in Arizona, where he was living openly after leaving the witness protection program.

While stalking their target, they allegedly devised two ways to kill him: by blowing him up with a remote-control bomb fashioned from shotgun shells, or by shooting him from long range with a sniper rifle.

Gravano was arrested before the alleged hit was carried out in the investigation of a multimillion-dollar Ecstasy ring in Arizona. He is serving a 20-year sentence.

Japan refuses citizenship to Japanese couple's twins born to American surrogate mother

TOKYO -- Japan has refused to grant citizenship to a Japanese couple's twins because an American surrogate mother gave birth to them, officials said Thursday.

The Justice Ministry's decision could discourage Japanese couples unable to have their own children from seeking out surrogate mothers overseas. Surrogate births are virtually nonexistent in Japan, where the practice is frowned upon and the government wants to outlaw it.

Ministry official Yoshikazu Nemura said the two boys can't be given citizenship because Japanese law requires that the biological mother be a Japanese citizen.

According to media reports, the twins were conceived from the father's sperm and eggs donated by an Asian-American woman.

Without citizenship, the children would be excluded from most schools.

The boys were born last October at a hospital in California, which makes them U.S. citizens, a status Japan recognizes, Nemura said.

The Japanese couple, who are in their 50s, reportedly tried fertility treatments in Japan before turning to a company that offered surrogate birth.

Surrogate births involve removing an egg for fertilization and implanting it into another woman who carries the baby until its birth.

The Japanese health ministry is opposed to surrogate births. Officials are trying to draw up legislation that would make the practice illegal and impose stiff penalties on those who violate the ban.

Ethical standards set by the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology already restrict in-vitro insemination to married couples.

As a result, few doctors will perform a surrogate birth, and many childless couples have turned to fertility clinics in the United States.

The couple have several options. They could challenge the decision in court or ask immigration authorities to grant a change of citizenship.

The couple can also legally adopt the children. To do so, they must resubmit the birth certificates with the surrogate mother listed as the infants' mother, offer proof that the children were conceived with the father's sperm and show immigration paperwork showing that the children are in Japan, the ministry official.

In May 2001, a Japanese doctor sparked controversy when he disclosed that a surrogate mother had successfully delivered a healthy baby for the first time in Japan. He delivered another one last year.

Even infertility treatments are still controversial in Japan although the country is troubled by a falling birthrate and rapidly graying population.

Factory worker killed while working at Mitsubishi plant

NORMAL, Ill. -- A worker at a Mitsubishi auto assembly plant was killed Thursday when he became trapped between two pallets, authorities said.

John Foster, 42, apparently became lodged between pallets on two conveyer machines, said McLean County Coroner Beth Kimmerling. He was not breathing when rescue workers arrived, and was later pronounced dead at BroMenn Regional Medical Center.

Production was temporarily suspended at the plant in Normal, a city of about 40,000 in central Illinois.

The plant -- with nearly 3,400 employees -- produces the Mitsubishi Eclipse, Eclipse Spyder, Galant, Endeavor, Chrysler Sebring and Dodge Stratus.

"This is a tragedy that has devastated our entire work force," said Rich Gilligan, who heads the plant. "Our focus right now is doing everything we can to comfort and support the family of the associate we've lost."

Foster, who was married and had five children, worked at the plant for about 15 years, the coroner said.

The plant is Mitsubishi's only production facility in North America.

Washington state residents clean up after most flooded rivers recede

HAMILTON, Wash. -- The Skagit River was still 2 feet above flood stage Thursday, but the other 10 rivers that overflowed in western Washington were back within their banks as residents started cleaning up the mess.

At least eight homes and three cabins were swept away during heavy rain Monday and early Tuesday. Storms late last week had saturated the soil and caused an earlier round of flooding along several rivers.

"It's all gone, everything we had is gone," said Wendy Haggin, who was waiting for help across a flooded road to her Hamilton home Wednesday.

She said she had heard her two-story house was flooded to the attic, where she and her husband had moved their belongings before leaving.

In Concrete, the Skagit crested at a record 42.2 feet -- more than 14 feet above flood stage.

In Mount Vernon, volunteers placed 50,000 to 75,000 sandbags to help limit the damage.

Dale Archer and his wife considered themselves lucky. Their furniture and appliances, mounted on milk crates, stayed dry when water rose to a couple of feet in their home near Sedro-Woolley.

"We didn't lose any personal belongings," Archer said as he surveyed the muddy wood floors, damp drywall and soggy carpeting. "Compared to what happened to the folks in Hamilton, it could have been a lot worse."

Gov. Gary Locke added four counties to the previous three where states of emergency had been declared. Damage assessment was just beginning.

About 3,000 Skagit County residents were forced out of their homes. As they returned, residents were advised to boil water and wear rubber gloves to protect against contaminants in areas that flooded.

In Mount Rainier National Park, southeast of Tacoma, damage to roads and other accommodations will amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars, Superintendent David V. Uberuaga said.

Head of Britain's Morgan sports car company dead at 83

LONDON -- Peter Morgan, head of the family firm that makes Morgan sports cars, has died at the age of 83, a company spokesman said Thursday.

Morgan died Monday after a brief undisclosed illness, said David Dowse of Transmission, the company that handles publicity for Morgan.

Known as P.M., Morgan was the son of H.F.S. Morgan, who began manufacturing a single-seat, three-wheel car in 1910.

During his tenure from 1959-1999, the son was involved in every aspect of developing the Morgan brand at the company's factory in Malvern Link, southern England.

Morgan is one of the world's oldest car manufacturers. As the cars are custom-made, the company produces only 700 a year and the current wait for delivery is more than a year.

The company's Plus 4 chassis remained largely unchanged from 1936 until 2000 and the Plus 8, introduced by Peter Morgan in 1968, is still being produced.

Born near Malvern in southwest England, Morgan studied at the Chelsea College of Automobile and Aero Engineering from 1937-40. During the war, he joined the Royal Army Service Corps, working in the motor shop.

Morgan built up the company's export market, particularly in the United States and Germany; half of sales are now overseas.

He turned over operational responsibility for the company to his son Charles in 1999, but continued to chair the board.

Morgan is survived by his second wife, Heather; and a son and two daughters from his first marriage. Funeral details were not immediately announced.

Odds and ends

CRYSTAL CITY, Mo. -- This wasn't a wild or crazy kind of dog -- just lucky.

Luther, a black Labrador, was found on a Jefferson County road with an arrow sticking through his head. He was expected to recover.

Authorities believe a hunter may have intentionally shot the dog with a bow-and-arrow, the tip going in below the right ear and poking out on the left side of the head.

Since the arrow narrowly missed the brain and spine, folks around here have taken to calling the dog "Lucky Luther."

The dog was carried into the Jones Animal Health Clinic in Crystal City the evening of Oct. 9. The county sheriff's department is investigating.

"This was clearly intentional. It would be a pretty far stretch to mistake a black Lab for a deer," said Dr. Thomas Butch Jones, the veterinarian who treated Luther.

The resident who found Luther decided to keep him, Jones said.

Judging by how the arrow was situated, Jones said a hunter may have shot Luther at close range, worried the dog would scare away deer.

He said he treats several pets each year that have been maimed by hunters, often on purpose.

"A lot of hunters take the hunt as seriously as a religion, and anything that gets in their way is going to get blasted to kingdom come," Jones said.

SALEM, Ore. -- A gunman who allegedly tried to hijack a car was apparently no better at driving it than he was at maneuvering his original vehicle: a tricycle.

He also wasn't very handy with the gun.

Oswaldo Valenciano, 24, was arrested Tuesday and will be booked at the Marion County Jail on felony charges, Lt. Dan Cary said.

Police were called after receiving reports that a man on a tricycle had been firing gunshots and had slammed into a car, Cary said.

"The tricycle pilot picked himself up and demanded to be taken to the hospital," Cary said. But the driver of the car, Marion Rodriguez, tried to persuade Valenciano to call 911, Cary said.

"At this point, Valenciano opens the rear car door and hops into the back seat of Mr. Rodriguez's car, demanding to be taken to the hospital," Cary said.

"Mr. Rodriguez gets out of his car and starts asking people to call 911. Valenciano then gets out, mounts his trike - and promptly falls over."

At that point, a police car arrived, prompting Valenciano to abandon his tricycle and get into the front seat of Rodriguez's car, still armed with his handgun, according to police reports.

"Officers saw the weapon and ordered Valenciano out of the car," Cary said. "Instead he puts the car in gear and tosses a handgun out. He fails to notice that the emergency brake is still set."

Valenciano eventually hit a street sign, lost control of the car and tried to hide in a nearby sports utility vehicle, police said

Valenciano was treated at Salem Hospital for a leg injury and a gunshot wound to his left foot.

OLIVET, Mich. -- Shutouts happen in baseball, hockey and football. But basketball?

The Leslie High School girls' basketball team failed to score a single point in a 61-0 loss to Olivet on Tuesday night.

Leslie's players missed all 24 of their shots from the field and all four foul shots. The Blackhawks (0-13) entered averaging 15 points a game, with their highest output this season at 22.

Olivet (14-0) is ranked third in the state in Class C and already beat Leslie 56-9 this season.

"The whole bus ride home, I couldn't believe it," Leslie coach Jay Harkness told The Jackson Citizen Patriot. "We missed layups. We missed 2-footers. Everything that could go wrong did."

WOLF LAKE, Ill. -- Why did the snake cross the road? On one U.S. Forest Service Lane, it had the whole thing to itself.

Federal officials say Road No. 345 is the only government-owned road that closes to vehicle traffic -- twice a year, during migration season -- in order to protect reptiles and amphibians.

As one endangered water snake made its way across the road, slowly slithering to its winter den from the swamp where it spent the summer, state herpetologist Scott Ballard extolled the program's benefits.

"Had a car come by just then, that would have been one fewer female green snake," Ballard said as he stepped over the foot-long juvenile and continued his walk along the leaf-covered road.

According to Ballard, the relatively warm climate of far southern Illinois beckons species usually found in the deep South like the salmon-and-black colored mud snake and green tree frog - tiny creatures that hop across the road every few minutes.

The U.S. Forest Service first started closing 345, otherwise known as LaRue Road, for a few weeks in the spring and fall nearly 30 years ago.

It's been closed since Sept. 1 this year, and is scheduled to reopen on Halloween. The road is also closed every March 15 to May 15.

Names in the news

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- John Mellencamp said he and his wife, model Elaine Irwin-Mellencamp, were surprised by the negative reaction to a song on his new album that questions the war in Iraq.

The couple answered criticism of "To Washington" in an essay published in Thursday's Herald-Times.

Since the song was released as a single as the war with Iraq was beginning in March, the couple has taken heat for its political content, which includes an apparent critique of President Bush.

They said some people had mistakenly labeled them pacifists. Irwin-Mellencamp described an encounter with one person who said the way to test a pacifist was to punch him in the nose and see how long it took him to hit back.

"I'll tell you one thing about the Mellencamps," the 52-year-old rocker told the newspaper for a story Thursday. "We don't believe in killing people and we don't believe in war, but we're not pacifists."

Mellencamp, a southern Indiana native, noted he'd written other songs on social issues, like "Pink Houses" and "Rain on the Scarecrow." Mellencamp co-founded Farm Aid in 1985 with Willie Nelson and Neil Young.

The Mellencamps said they had questions about U.S. policy in Iraq and on other issues, and they were surprised by the negative reaction to the song, which is included on the album, "Trouble No More."

"I don't understand why people think it's not OK to question the government, I really don't," said Irwin-Mellencamp.

HAMBURG, Germany -- Siegfried Fischbacher of "Siegfried and Roy" fame received a special award on behalf of his partner, Roy Horn, and promised the crowd at the third annual World Awards to duo would return to the stage.

Fischbacher had requested a duplicate World Entertainment Award, presented to the pair at the ceremony that lasted into the wee hours Thursday, for Horn, who's recovering from an Oct. 3 attack by one of the white tigers featured in the duo's show.

"The Siegfried who you see before you here will soon return again as Siegfried and Roy," the German-born magician told the cheering crowd at the ceremony recognizing outstanding contributions to society by men.

Former "Superman" superstar Christopher Reeve received a lengthy standing ovation as he made his way across the stage in a wheelchair to accept a prize for his life's work.

"I've always believed that nothing is impossible," said Reeve, who was paralyzed in a horseback riding accident. Accepting the award, a small statue of August Rodin's "The Thinker," he called on people to live bravely.

Nobel laureate and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, president of the Austrian-based organization that stages the ceremony, presented the awards.

Michael Douglas, Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb and ex-pop singer Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, also were recognized.

Thirteen-year-old Ali Abbas, who lost both of his arms during the Iraq war, accepted a prize for people of the year on behalf of Iraqi doctors, recognized for their work during and after the attacks.

Karl Lagerfeld was awarded the world fashion prize, Morgan Freeman won artist of the year and former Polish President Lech Walesa was honored with the prize for tolerance.

German cyclist Jan Ullrich received a prize for fairness in sports for waiting for rival Lance Armstrong to recover from a fall in one of the final stages of this year's Tour de France.

The Pet Shop Boys, winners of an overall artistic award, provided music for the evening along with Irish singer Ronan Keating.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Roger Moore was shaken and stirred Thursday to call for greater production of iodized salt in Cambodia to prevent diseases caused by a lack of the nutrient.

"This is a serious problem, although it's not as dramatic as sort of an epidemic," said the 76-year-old former James Bond star, a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF who arrived in Cambodia Wednesday to campaign for iodized salt.

"It is something that is there and has to be combatted," he said in a telephone interview before heading out to Kampot province to visit its salt fields. Kampot is a major salt producing region 80 miles southwest of Phnom Penh.

According to the United Nations, the percentage of households in the developing world using iodized salt surged from less than 20 percent in 1990 to 70 percent in 2000. But in Cambodia, only 12 percent of households consume iodized salt.

"That is not good enough," said Moore. "It means that 88 percent of the population are being denied the chance (to lead) a healthy life."

Last year, 46 million children were born without protection from iodine deficiency, the world's greatest cause of preventable mental retardation, according to UNICEF. More than half the children born in Cambodia each year are at risk of developing iodine deficiency disorders.

LOS ANGELES -- Peter Fonda has lived up to another of his famous father's honors: a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Fonda, who's promoting the DVD release of his 1971 directorial debut "The Hired Hand," accepted the star Wednesday and paid tribute to his place in an acting dynasty.

He's the son of Henry Fonda, who died in 1982, and the brother of Jane Fonda -- both Oscar winners. His daughter is actress Bridget Fonda and his son is Justin Fonda, a cameraman on films such as "Vertical Limit" and "The Last Ride."

"This is great for me to be able to join my father. I certainly hope my daughter and my son, who is a cameraman, can join me soon," Peter Fonda said at the ceremony.

His father's star is on Vine Street, while the younger Fonda's star is on Hollywood Boulevard in front of the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

Fonda got much of his early training in TV in the 1960s in series including "Wagon Train" and "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour."

The 63-year-old also learned what goes on behind the camera. He produced and costarred in "Easy Rider," the landmark, Academy Award-nominated biker film of 1969 that made Jack Nicholson a star.

MILWAUKEE -- CBS broadcaster Dick Enberg has written a play about the late basketball coach and network sportscaster Al McGuire.

Enberg, a longtime friend and on-air partner of the former Marquette University coach, said he's sent the script to ESPN and CBS, among other places.

"I got a lot of positive responses, but no one is stepping forward," he said in a telephone interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Enberg said one idea was to have CBS tape the play live for later broadcast. One possibility would be to broadcast the performance during the Final Four weekend, he said.

The 68-year-old said he's also willing to work with Marquette University on having the performance taped on campus. He said proceeds could go to the Al McGuire Center, the school's $31 million athletic facility.

McGuire coached at Marquette from 1964-77, and his teams won the 1970 NIT title and the 1977 NCAA championship. His television career began in 1977 with NBC and ended in 2000 with CBS. He died Jan. 26, 2001, of a blood disorder at 72.

CHICAGO -- Jewelry designer Anthony Camargo says he began chasing after the cab when realized he'd left a bag containing samples of his latest collection in its trunk.

But the cab -- and the $230,000 worth of jewelry inside -- were nowhere to be found.

Luckily, the bag was left in a cab being driven by 26-year-old Mohammed Hussain. On Wednesday, Hussain returned the 42 pieces of ornate jewelry and received from Camargo an undisclosed monetary reward and a pair of sapphire earrings.

"What he did was so admirable," Camargo said.

Camargo co-owns Anthony-Nak Fine Jewelry in Austin, Texas. Celebrities who've worn his colorful pieces include Jennifer Lopez, first lady Laura Bush, Britney Spears and Cher.

The designer left the bag in Hussain's cab Saturday after a visit to Barney's New York in the ritzy Gold Coast neighborhood. He reported the missing jewelry to police, but didn't have the cab number or the name of the company.

"My whole staff of 40 people didn't sleep for two days," Camargo said.

Hussain, who came to the United States from India 2 1/2 years ago, has been driving a cab for about a year. He said he found the bag Sunday morning, but didn't open it right away.

"I didn't know there was jewelry there. I took it back to my apartment and just kept it," Hussain said. "The next morning I said, 'Let's see what's there,' and I found the jewelry."

He sent an e-mail to Camargo later that day.

NEW YORK -- Director Ron Howard was among those receiving an outstanding achievement award at the seventh annual Hollywood Film Festival's "Hollywood Awards" ceremony.

Howard, winner of the best-director Oscar for 2001's "A Beautiful Mind," won the award for outstanding achievement in directing.

Other winners included Anthony Hopkins and Goldie Hawn, honored with achievement in acting awards, and producer Sydney Pollack, who received the outstanding achievement in producing award.

The ceremony, honoring independent filmmakers and established Hollywood professionals, took place Monday night in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Scarlett Johansson, star of "Lost in Translation," and Orlando Bloom, whose films include the "Lord of the Rings" movies and "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," received breakthrough acting awards.

The festival also announced the winners of the Hollywood movie, actor, actress, supporting actor and supporting actress of the year awards chosen by the public voting online.

The public's favorites were "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" directed by Gore Verbinski, Johnny Depp (actor), Diane Lane (actress), Geoffrey Rush (supporting actor) and Alison Lohman (supporting actress).

"There is no more appropriate place than the Hollywood Film Festival to honor the illustrious talents of all these magnificent artists who have created some of the most memorable characters and truly unforgettable films," festival chairwoman Paula Wagner said in a statement.

NEW YORK -- Jim Carrey will star in a film based on the '70s TV series "The Six Million Dollar Man," to be written and directed by Todd Phillips, Dimension Films announced.

"The teaming of Jim and Todd is a perfect creative combination to launch the 'Six Billion Dollar Man' franchise, Dimension Films co-chairman Bob Weinstein said in a statement Tuesday. "Todd is a director with proven instincts and Jim is a superstar."

According to the studio, "the combination of Carrey and Phillips led to a fresh, hilarious take on the potential franchise."

Lee Majors starred as Col. Steve Austin in the action-adventure series, which ran from 1974-78.

Phillips directed "Old School" and "Road Trip," and is working on the movie version of "Starsky & Hutch."

Carrey's films include "Bruce Almighty," "The Truman Show" and "Man on the Moon."

NEW YORK -- Don't tell Jan Michelini that lightning doesn't strike twice.

An assistant director on Mel Gibson's "The Passion of Christ," Michelini was nicknamed "Lightning Boy" after lightning struck his umbrella during filming on a hilltop in the town of Matera, Italy, reported VLife, a supplement to Variety publications, in its October issue.

He suffered light burns on the tips of his fingers.

A few months later, while the crew was on a remote location a few hours from Rome, a storm rolled in and Michelini, again carrying an umbrella, was standing beside star Jim Caviezel on top of a hill, the publication said.

"I'm about a hundred feet away from them," producer Steve McEveety was quoted as saying, "when I glance over and see lightning coming out of Caviezel's ears. Both Caviezel and Michelini got struck this time. The main bolt hit Caviezel and one of its forks hit Michelini's umbrella."

Luckily, they weren't hurt.

Caviezel stars as Christ and Monica Bellucci plays Mary Magdalene in the film.

Some 49 miners trapped in southern Russian mine

ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia -- Water began filling a mine in southern Russia, trapping 49 miners a half-mile underground on Thursday, an emergency official said.

The miners were working in the Zapadnaya mine in Shakty in the Rostov-on-Don region, about 600 miles south of Moscow, when the accident occurred, said Andrei Somishchenko, duty officer at the Emergency Situations Ministry's southern office.

He said all of the mine's electrical systems had shut down, including the platform that lifts the workers out of the mine.

A team of 38 rescuers was on the site, trying to reach the men. Officials said they were still not sure what had caused the water leak. It was unclear how deep the water table was in the area, but the men were believed to be about 2,600 feet underground.

Accidents are common in the Russian coal industry, and miners stage frequent protests over wage delays and declining safety standards. According to the Independent Coal Miners' Union, 68 miners were killed on the job last year and 98 in 2001.

SUV seriously injures sunbather on Florida beach

ORMOND BEACH, Fla. -- A sport utility vehicle ran over a sunbather on the beach, seriously injuring the woman, authorities said.

Glenda Willits, 52, of Ormond Beach, was pinned under the front of the car after it backed into her Wednesday, said Deputy Chief Mike Hensler of the Volusia County Beach Patrol.

Willits was listed in serious condition Thursday in the Halifax Medical Center with injuries to her hip and shoulder.

The driver, a 30-year-old woman whose name was not released, apparently didn't see Willits, Hensler said.

Investigators were trying to determine whether to file charges.

Cars are allowed on many Florida beaches, including Ormond Beach.

In February, a police officer drove over two sisters on Miami's South Beach, killing one and injuring the other. The officer was not charged, but the women's family sued the city for negligence.

Moderate earthquake shakes southeastern Turkey

ANKARA, Turkey -- A moderate earthquake struck southeastern Turkey on Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

The Istanbul-based Kandilli Observatory said the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 4.9 and struck at 8:24 p.m. The temblor was centered in the town of Pervari in Siirt province, about 560 miles southeast of Ankara.

Earthquakes are frequent in Turkey, which lies atop active fault lines.

Two massive quakes killed about 18,000 people in northwestern Turkey in 1999.