National and International News-Friday, Oct. 6th

APEX, N.C. (AP) - More residents are being evacuated from their homes as a fire continues to burn at a hazardous waste business in Apex, North Carolina. Officials say people have seen the plume or smelled chemicals up to two miles from the Environmental Quality Company plant.

GEORGETOWN, Pa. (AP) - Bearded men in black suits and hats and women in black dresses and bonnets will again make their way to a tiny cemetery in Pennsylvania's Amish country today. There will be one more funeral for a victim of Monday's schoolhouse shooting. The four other girls were buried yesterday.

CAPITOL HILL (AP) - House Speaker Dennis Hastert says he hasn't done anything wrong so there's no need for him to resign over the House page sex scandal. But he says he'll take action if any of his staffers didn't do their jobs. The ex-chief of staff to the congressman at the center of the scandal says he told Hastert aides three years ago there was trouble.

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi already knows how she'll spend her first 100 hours if the Democrats win the House and elect her speaker. For starters, she says she'd curb the influence of lobbyists and enact all the recommendations made by the Nine-Eleven commission.

ATLANTA (AP) - An icon of the civil rights movement turns 85 today and shows no sign of slowing down. The Reverend Joseph Lowery made headlines earlier this year when he criticized the war in Iraq and poverty in the United States during Coretta Scott King's funeral as President Bush looked on.