AP - The state attorney general's office said Monday it asked the Iowa Supreme Court to review a judge's ruling that nude dancing is a legal art form. -- read full article
AP - A teenager has admitted in a New York court that he shot and killed a security guard who confronted egg-throwing youths on Halloween. -- read full article
AP - Three more bodies were discovered over the weekend in areas of Texas ravaged by Hurricane Ike, increasing the storm's toll to 67 deaths nationally.
AP - It's closing time for a lawsuit alleging ladies' nights at nightclubs discriminate against men. Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum tossed the lawsuit out of federal court in Manhattan on Monday. She said nightclubs can price their products as they wish because they're not acting as representatives of the state. -- read full article
AP - The decision had been made safely many times before: Victims in a car crash were critically injured, and a helicopter was dispatched to rush them to the hospital.
AP - Some key Nebraska lawmakers are discussing an age limit and other possible changes to the state's new safe-haven law that has led parents to abandon children as old as 17.
AP - Motorists are rising before dawn so they can be at the filling station when the delivery truck arrives. Some are skipping work or telecommuting. Others are taking the extreme step — for Atlanta — of switching to public transportation.
AP - The South Dakota Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments over whether yelling profanities at a passing police officer is protected speech under the U.S. Constitution.
AP - A former teacher who fled to Mexico with a 13-year-old student so she could have sex with him was sentenced Monday to six years in federal prison. Kelsey Peterson, 26, had pleaded guilty in July to a charge of transporting a minor across state lines to have sex and avoided a similar charge that would have carried a mandatory 10-year minimum sentence.
AP - A federal court Monday overturned the Bush administration's decision to remove gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region from the endangered species list. -- read full article
AP - Several news organizations sued the state of Minnesota on Monday to block a new law restricting access to polling places, saying it would interfere with exit polls. -- read full article
AP - The night five people were abducted from a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant 25 years ago, a van sped out its parking lot, being driven by a white man and carrying three people wearing KFC uniforms, a witness testified Monday. -- read full article
AP - Gov. Ed Rendell on Monday halted the early release of state prison inmates, days after a recently paroled felon shot and killed a Philadelphia police officer.
