AP - An Episcopal bishop accused of concealing his brother's sexual abuse of a 14-year-old decades ago once told the girl's mother he didn't think it was his place to inform her family, her mother testified Monday at a church trial. -- read full article
Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:59:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Shuttle Discovery's astronauts wrapped up their few remaining chores at the international space station on Monday, flexing the robot arm belonging to the newly installed Japanese science lab and opening its attic.
AP - After bone cancer forced the amputation of her right leg below the knee, Eileen Casey got even more bad news: Her insurer told her that she had spent her $10,000 lifetime coverage limit on her temporary limb and that the company wouldn't pay for a permanent one.
AP - A convicted police killer died because he was left alone in a sweltering cell after being given powerful medication, his mother said in a lawsuit Monday. -- read full article
Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:30:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Drinking water in Arlington, Texas, tested positive for trace concentrations of the anti-anxiety medication meprobamate, city officials revealed Monday in response to a series of public records requests. -- read full article
Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:16:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A man accused of running an escort service that led to the downfall of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer will plead guilty, his lawyer said Monday. -- read full article
Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:17:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Two people have been charged with beating a 3-year-old boy who died in their care in a home just blocks from where a girl's brutal death in 2006 spurred calls for reform in the city's child-welfare agency. -- read full article
Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:07:37 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A 4-year-old girl shot herself in the chest Monday after snatching her grandmother's handgun from the woman's purse while riding in a shopping cart at a Sam's Club store, authorities said. -- read full article
Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:24:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - As night slid into day and back into night, and reef fish nibbled at their skin and the Gulf of Mexico roiled around them, the five survivors of the sinking of the Cynthia Woods sailboat kept talking.
AP - A woman pleaded guilty Monday to killing her pregnant friend, the unborn child and the victim's three children in a plea deal that allowed her to avoid the death penalty.
AP - Fresh from his hospitalization for an aggresive surgery on a cancerous brain tumor, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy announced it was "good to be home" at his family's Cape Cod compound Monday and headed out for a sail.