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England’s Prince Charles and his wife Camilla shook hands with well-wishers outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia Saturday to kick off their first trip to the city where Americans declared their independence from British rule.

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall greeted long lines of gushing fans, mingling with them, accepting flowers and charming many in the crowd.

The royal couple are on a two-day visit to the United States that focuses on youth development, urban renewal and environmental stewardship.

A grandmother from Sierra Vista, Ariz., who prosecutors said ran drugs to support her bingo habit has been sentenced to three years in prison and a $150,000 fine.

Acting on a tip, state police stopped Leticia Villareal Garcia, 62, in February 2005 and found 214 pounds of marijuana in the trunk of her car.

Her lawyer, Robert Zohlmann, said she had been used as a “blind mule” to unknowingly haul drugs.

A mansion owned by owned by the family of George “Geordie” Hormel, a philanthropist and heir to the Hormel Foods Corp. fortune who died last February at age 77 is on the market for $25 million.

The 52,000-square-foot McCune Mansion is located on six acres in Arizona’s exclusive Paradise Valley. Built in 1962 by Walker McCune, heir to the Pennzoil Oil fortune, the home has an indoor ice rink, a 150-seat movie theater, racquetball court, recording studio and 37 bathrooms.

Composer John Adams has delayed the premiere of his “Doctor Atomic Symphony,” which is based on his critically acclaimed opera about the development of the A-bomb.

The symphony, commissioned by the Saint Louis Symphony, Carnegie Hall and the BBC, was to be performed March 31 at Carnegie Hall. It will be replaced by Adams’ “Harmonielehre” at the concert with conductor David Robertson and the Saint Louis Symphony.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer said he realized while composing the symphony that it “was creatively a much more time-consuming project than originally anticipated, and it would not be ready for the scheduled premiere,” according to a news release.

B.B. King was discharged from a Galveston hospital Saturday following treatment for a fever and was “back to his old self,” a spokeswoman for his management agency said.

The 81-year-old, Grammy-winning bluesman was “feeling fabulous,” said Tina France, vice president of Lieberman Management of New York.

King had been scheduled to perform Thursday at the Grand Opera House, but was admitted to The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, said Paul McCarthy, a hospital administrator.

© 2007 The Associated Press