NEW YORK (AP) — Big corporations give him money. Presidential candidates seek his endorsement. He has influential friends in Congress and the governor's mansion. The Rev. Al Sharpton has emerged over the past decade as perhaps the nation's most prominent civil rights leader, a status that was demonstrated again this week when he led protests against police brutality that briefly shut down six of Manhattan's major bridges and tunnels.

(Access Hollywood) - NEW YORK, NY - Martha Stewart has offered her congratulations to her friend and commercial co-star Mariah Carey, for the singer’s nuptials to Nick Cannon.

(Chicago Tribune) - CHICAGO - On the first day of his child pornography trial in Chicago, a suit-clad R. Kelly faced nearly 150 Cook County residents, bowed his head slightly, smiled and said, "Hello."

The player with the vanishing offense, the one with the historically bad start in the Eastern Conference semifinals, spent all of Friday's practice working on his shooting. LeBron James is, apparently, determined. He will find a way to make baskets.

No matter where LeBron James has tried to score from, the Celtics have made his life difficult through the first two games of the Eastern semifinals. John Kuntz/The Plain Dealer

Ponte Vedra Beach, FL (Sports Network) - Kenny Perry posted a two-under 70 on Friday and moved to the top of the leaderboard after two rounds of The Players Championship.

(Sporting News) - DARLINGTON, S.C. -- Greg Biffle scorched the repaved racing surface at Darlington Raceway on Friday to win the pole for Saturday night's Dodge Challenger 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup race.

(The Wall Street Journal) - WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration stepped up its heparin alerts to hundreds of hospitals, medical societies and pharmaceutical organizations on Friday after learning that some medical facilities still had the contaminated blood thinner among their supplies.

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — A judge in Florida says the 17-year-old son of wrestler Hulk Hogan should serve eight months in jail for reckless driving.

(E-Online) - DMX apparently isn't one for facing the music of the night.

(Information Week) - The strategy of rolling out service packs in phases gives the market plenty of time to evaluate the software.

(Information Week) - Following MySpace's lead, Facebook's upcoming service includes user-maintained controls for basic profile information, photos, personal videos, and friend lists.

CHARLESTOWN, West Virginia (CNN) -- West Virginians will head to the polls Tuesday for the state's Democratic primary between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. But what will the vote there really mean after new delegate totals show Obama with a sizable lead?

Sen. Hillary Clinton campaigns Thursday at the West Virginia State Capitol.

(The Boston Globe) - NBC News is reporting that an informal foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama has cut ties with the campaign after reports of him meeting with members of the terrorist group Hamas.

(U.S. News) - This is a sad and dangerous time for Hillary Clinton. Her presidential campaign is in more trouble than ever following her big loss last week to Democratic rival Barack Obama in the North Carolina primary, 56 to 42 percent, and her unimpressive 51 to 49 percent win in Indiana, a state seemingly made to order for her.

May 9 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks fell, sending the market to its first weekly drop in a month, after American International Group Inc. said it needs to raise $12.5 billion to cover writedowns and concern grew the rally in commodities will end.