AP - Five indicted members of a West Texas polygamist sect turned themselves in to authorities Monday to face charges related to allegations of child sexual abuse.
AP - Community leaders on Monday called on students from poorer parts of Chicago to protest inequalities in school funding by skipping the first day of classes. -- read full article
AP - An indictment unsealed Monday charges a man suspected of killing eight people with one of the slayings, that of a 65-year-old who was beaten in the head with a blunt instrument. -- read full article
AP - In the impoverished neighborhood of South Los Angeles, fast food is the easiest cuisine to find and that's a problem for elected officials who see it as an unhealthy source of calories and cholesterol.
AP - Smoke had turned the sun a deep glowing red by the time Dutch tourist Trees Duipmans and her three teenage children reached a campground outside Yosemite National Park on Sunday. By Monday, they decided it was time to go.
AP - Children from the Unitarian church where authorities said an out-of-work truck driver shot and killed two people, ended a prayer vigil by singing a song from the musical the gunman interrupted.
AP - More than 22,000 veterans have sought help from a special suicide hot line in its first year, and 1,221 suicides have been averted, the government says.
AP - Officials in Oregon's Hood River County say a man who had scaled one of Mount Hood's most challenging routes has died after being hit by falling rock. -- read full article
AP - Little relief from hot weather is expected this week as crews fight to contain a wildfire near Yosemite National Park that has destroyed 12 homes and forced the evacuation of about 200 others.
AP - A Rhode Island man charged with killing his parents and burying their bodies in their backyard cesspool has been ordered held without bail. -- read full article
AP - FBI and IRS agents served at least 10 search warrants Monday at Cuyahoga County offices and homes as part of a public corruption investigation, authorities said. -- read full article