AP - A reputed Ku Klux Klan member serving three life sentences for his role in the 1964 abduction and killings of two black Mississippi teenagers should not have been convicted because the statute of limitations had expired, his lawyer argued Monday.

AP - Shuttle Discovery's astronauts geared up for the first spacewalk of their mission Tuesday and the installation of Japan's giant lab to the international space station.

AP - An initiative that would again outlaw gay marriage in California has qualified for the November ballot, the Secretary of State announced Monday.

AP - Workers using a blowtorch on the roof of a movie set building facade at Universal Studios accidentally set a huge fire that swept through the back lot, fire officials said Monday.

AP - A handsome, athletic Ivy League graduate admitted in court Monday that he and a girlfriend stole the identities of friends, co-workers and neighbors to finance their luxury lifestyle.

AP - Jennetta Jessop fought back tears when she was reunited with her 5-year-old son, two months after the state raided her polygamist sect's ranch and took away her children.

AP - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was recovering Tuesday at Duke University Medical Center, a day after undergoing risky surgery that experts said was designed to reduce his brain tumor and give chemotherapy and radiation treatments a chance to work.

AP - Targeted brain surgery like that planned Monday morning for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is a delicate balance — removing as much tumor as possible improves cancer control, but there's also the risk of harming healthy brain tissue that lets patients walk and talk.

AP - A Manhattan judge has sentenced a former mental patient to three years of probation for stalking and harassing actress Uma Thurman.

AP - Jury selection has started for the murder trial of a British man accused of killing his wife and infant daughter in Massachusetts.