NATIONAL NEWS
1 found dead, several rescued from Ind. motel fire
VINCENNES, Ind. (AP) -- Firefighters have found one body and rescued several people from a fire at a southwestern Indiana motel....
Kennedy dispute reveals divide among Catholics
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A bitter dispute over abortion that prompted Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop to ask Rep. Patrick Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion has revealed the depth of the divide among Catholics over how politicians should reconcile their faith with their public duties....
Army asks Palin not to give speech at book signing
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin promises to limit her enthusiasm during her visit to North Carolina's Fort Bragg....
Medical marijuana finds social outlet in Ore. cafe
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- At the newly opened Cannabis Cafe, people sit around taking tokes from a "vaporizer" - a contraption with a big plastic bag that captures the potent vapors of heated marijuana. Glass jars hold donations of dried, milky-green weed, and the cafe serves up meals and snacks for the hungry....
FBI wants public's help in civil rights killings
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Over the last three years, the FBI scoured faded documents, interviewed aging lawmen and tracked down witnesses from killings that occurred decades ago, many of them involving white police officers who shot black men or teenagers....
Lawyer: 9/11 defendants want platform for views
NEW YORK (AP) -- The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said....
Transgender murderer renews electrolysis request
BOSTON (AP) -- A convicted murderer serving a life sentence goes before a judge to ask for electrolysis treatments as she seeks a taxpayer-funded sex-change operation....
The nation's weather
Drier weather was expected to return to much of the West on Monday as a building ridge of high pressure replaces the eastern Pacific storm from Sunday....
SF area officer, passenger injured during arrest
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- A train passenger's video of an arrest shows heavy-duty glass shattering and showering down on a San Francisco area transit police officer and an unruly passenger in an incident that injured both men....
ME: Teen killed by NYC police was shot 11 times
NEW YORK (AP) -- A teenager killed in a confrontation with New York City police over the weekend was shot 11 times, the medical examiner's office said Sunday....
Swimmers, poets among 2010 Rhodes Scholars from US
When Henry Spelman found out he'd won a Rhodes Scholarship, his first call was to his girlfriend. To share the good news, of course, but also to see whether she was a winner as well....
Palin dines, prays with Rev. Billy Graham in NC
MONTREAT, N.C. (AP) -- Sarah Palin on Sunday dined and prayed with the Rev. Billy Graham, who has counseled presidents and other politicians for decades....
WORLD NEWS
Pakistan's army attacks militants in northwest
PARACHINAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan's army fought Islamist militants for control of a northwestern district on Monday, killing 18 of them in an escalating campaign against insurgents intent on toppling the U.S.-allied government....
Charlie Chaplin's last home to become a museum
GENEVA (AP) -- Charlie Chaplin's last home in Switzerland will be turned into a permanent place of pilgrimage for fans of the actor who immortalized the "Little Tramp," one of his sons said Monday....
France shows off cutting-edge navy ship in Russia
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) -- A cutting-edge French warship sailed into St. Petersburg Monday to show off its capabilities to potential buyers in the Russian navy, whose pursuit of an amphibious assault capacity is frightening some neighboring countries....
Iraqi lawmakers amend election law; Sunnis angry
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq's parliament has amended an election law that was vetoed by a Sunni Arab vice president, but Sunnis say the changes do not address their concerns....
Israel, Hamas close to prisoner swap deal
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israel and Hamas are close to a deal to swap 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for an Israeli soldier held for more than three years by the Islamic militant group, a Palestinian familiar with the talks said Monday....
China activist who spoke out on quake gets 3 years
BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese court on Monday sentenced a veteran dissident to three years in prison after he criticized the government's response to the 2008 earthquake that killed about 90,000 people....
Iranian official in fake degree scandal dies
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Former Iranian Interior Minister Ali Kordan, who was dismissed after being accused of faking a law degree from the University of Oxford, has died, reports said Monday. He was 51....
Afghan provinces get millions to reduce poppies
KABUL (AP) -- The U.S. on Monday agreed to hand out millions of dollars in development aid to provinces in Afghanistan that have eliminated or reduced the production of opium poppies, the raw ingredient in making heroin....
Big Bang atom smasher sends beams in 2 directions
GENEVA (AP) -- Scientists working on the world's largest atom smasher say they are now circulating beams of protons in opposite directions at the same time in the $10 billion machine after more than a year of repairs....
Attack on election convoy kills 21 Filipinos
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Dozens of gunmen hijacked a convoy carrying journalists, and family and supporters of a candidate for provincial governor, killing at least 21 of the travelers Monday in the southern Philippines' worst political violence in years....
EU: Nearly half of unemployed out of work a year
BRUSSELS (AP) -- Nearly half of Europe's unemployed stay out of work for at least a year, a European Union report said Monday, far more than in the U.S....
Woman found 25 hours after Indonesia ferry sank
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Rescuers plucked a woman from choppy waters Monday, some 25 hours after she jumped from a crowded ferry that sank in a storm off Indonesia's Sumatra island. At least 29 people drowned, and 20 others were missing....
