When Kelli Gilzow needed public assistance to get through college, she never thought she'd have to go back on welfare years later as a single mother. But after separating from her husband, who was diagnosed with AIDS, she was forced to move back to her hometown in Maine, live in a shelter run by nuns and apply for welfare to support her two kids.

The $700 a month she received from the state's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program helped her pay the bills, and the Section 8 housing she qualified for allowed her to eventually move into a single-family home. While she was glad for the help, Gilzow didn't plan to stay on welfare for long. Instead, she started teaching group fitness classes in addition to working a full-time job as an administrative assistant. When she realized she was making $25 every time she taught a one-hour class, she knew she was on to something. Although she had no business experience, she decided to use her savings of $500 and her tax return of $5,600 to start her own fitness studio, Sabattus, Maine-based SPRQ Studio. The business provided a way for her to get off of welfare and to have the flexibility she needed for her kids. Now Gilzow wants to use SPRQ Studio to give back to the community that gave her a new start.

Why did you leave your hometown in Maine to begin with?

A member of North Carolina's Providence Road Baptist Church defended Pastor Charles L. Worley to Anderson Cooper last night, saying she agreed with her reverend's notoriously anti-gay sermon which called for putting gays and lesbians behind electrified fences to eventually die off.

"Of course people are going to take it and make it their own way and make it what they want to, but I agree with what the sermon was and what it was about," Stacey Pritchard told the CNN host.

When Cooper asked about Worley's specific request for an electrified fence, Pritchard noted, "Maybe that's what he felt like should be done...just to make the short of it, yes I agree with him."

NEWBERRY, Mich. -- A wildfire in Michigan's Upper Peninsula has nearly doubled in size, consuming an estimated 17,000 acres.

Ed Golder of the state Department of Natural Resources said Friday the fire grew overnight from about 9,500 acres. Golder said dry and windy conditions are expected to cause the blaze to grow. The blaze officials are calling the Duck Lake Fire is raging in Luce County north of Newberry.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- A second federal judge in California has struck down a law denying benefits to partners in a gay marriage.

Wilken says the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act violated constitutional standards when it denied federal benefits to same-sex spouses married under California law and barred domestic partners of state workers from long-term health coverage.

Three children, all ages 3 or younger, were found among a group of homeless people in Portland, Ore., cops said.

CNN reported that the children haven't been identified and that police are looking into their stories.

Officers got a call at about 9:25 a.m. Thursday from a man saying he heard children's voices coming from a shed behind his house. Upon arrival, they found several homeless people in an abandoned residence and three "olive-skinned" children, the station reported.

NEW YORK -- President Barack Obama heads to Broadway next month as part of a double bill with former President Bill Clinton - and the stars will be out to welcome them.

James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury, Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Mandy Patinkin, Nina Arianda, Kerry Butler, Norbert Leo Butz, Bobby Cannavale, Stockard Channing, Megan Hilty and Cheyenne Jackson are some of the performers slated to attend the June 4 fundraiser.

You never know where you'll meet the love of your life.

Duaveed Hakhainhaguadole (say that five times fast!) met his beloved Clara at the Bad Behavior sex shop in Los Angeles. She's a mannequin there.

He says he loves everything about Clara -- she doesn't argue, scream or complain.

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GREENVILLE, Maine -- A forest ranger has found what's believed to be an ejection seat from a B-52 bomber that crashed on a western Maine mountain nearly 50 years ago, killing seven airmen.

The Maine Forest Service said Tuesday that ranger Bruce Reed found the seat on an overgrown logging road while hunting last fall on Elephant Mountain near Greenville. Reed returned to the site Saturday to take photos and record identification numbers to confirm it came from the B-52.

Family and fans will say goodbye to musician Chuck Brown, the legendary "Godfather of Go-Go," at a public viewing and service next week.

The viewing will be held at D.C.'s Howard Theatre on Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Walter E. Washington Convention Center will host a public memorial service on Thursday from noon to 3 p.m.

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and Brown's family announced together the family's request that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Chuck Brown Foundation. According to its website, the Chuck Brown Foundation was "Envisioned by the Godfather of Go Go, Chuck Brown, as a way to give back to the causes he felt so passionately about....Education, Homelessness, and Re-entry Into Society After Incarceration," and is the process of applying for nonprofit status.

The search for what happened to missing child Etan Patz may have finally come to end on Thursday, when a man implicated himself in the boy's disappearance and death.

Police arrested Pedro Hernandez, 51, after he confessed to luring the boy with the promise of a soda and then strangling him. It is the first arrest in the thirty-three year old case.

Patz went missing in SoHo in May 1979. His disappearance was a national story — Patz was famously the first missing child to appear on a milk carton, and sparked a nationwide movement focused on missing children.

NEW YORK -- President Barack Obama heads to Broadway next month as part of a double bill with former President Bill Clinton - and the stars will be out to welcome them.

James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury, Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Mandy Patinkin, Nina Arianda, Kerry Butler, Norbert Leo Butz, Bobby Cannavale, Stockard Channing, Megan Hilty and Cheyenne Jackson are some of the performers slated to attend the June 4 fundraiser.

Over the past several weeks, my television has been receiving high-definition feeds of ABC, Fox, NBC and CBS, even though I haven't paid Comcast or Time Warner Cable a single penny for service. I feel as though I'm committing some sort of crime by getting such a crisp picture on my big-screen Bravia without the cable company's consent -- I imagine the Comcast-stapo will be busting down my door any day now -- but actually, what I'm doing is totally legal, thanks to a new gadget that accesses high-definition TV with no need for a cable subscription.

This magical television-summoning device is called the Live TV Tuner. It's a special little antenna from Boxee that can save you a whole heap of money on your cable bill while still letting you watch your favorite shows live and in HD.

Now, I haven't had cable for about two years, and in that time I've done some desperate things to watch live television. I've downloaded all sorts of sketchy streaming software; clicked on to "TV Links" websites hosted in Israel and Ukraine; and sat in poorly lit sports bars sipping on their cheapest draft beer, resignedly ordering another pint as big games dragged into overtime.

Look, Google, we've got a plan to help you win on social. There's only one catch: You have to give up on the notion that animates Google Plus.

Look, it's the Friday before Memorial Day and we're all just biding our time at the office until we can get to the movie theater anyway, so don't you judge us.

Yes, this serves no purpose, and no, this is NOT news. But if you've got a better idea about what we should be doing with our time today we would not LOVE to hear it.

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is sidestepping an election-year confrontation with the hotel industry and other pool owners to give them more time to comply with access rules for the disabled.

The rules have been in the works since the early 1990s, but the Justice Department created an uproar among hotels, waterparks, health clubs and the like earlier this year when it said it will require many such facilities to install fixed lifts to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act.