AP - An early morning fire burned an eastern Tennessee home to the ground, killing six people, four of them children, authorities said.

AP - Mass transit activists have been trying to get a citywide monorail system off the ground ever since a one-mile tourist tram was built for the Seattle World's Fair in 1962.

AP - Negotiators for the region's transit agency and striking union workers reached a tentative agreement Monday on a four-year contract, ending a weeklong walkout.

AP - Former White House counter-terrorism adviser Richard Clarke says the random search by police of bags on New York subways is a program that should be copied in other cities.

AP - The number of new international graduate students enrolling in American universities appears to have rebounded slightly this fall following three years of decline.

AP - Subway, trolley and bus service began returning to normal Monday after negotiators for the region's transit agency and striking workers reached a tentative agreement to end a weeklong walkout.

AP - The trustee handling civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks' affairs said thousands more of her funeral programs will be printed to try and stop people who are profiting from originals.

AP - After meeting resistance during three days of Latin America trade talks, President Bush will finally get a chance to negotiate Monday with an enthusiastic partner in Panamanian President Martin Torrijos.

AP - There is overwhelming evidence Joseph Smith raped and strangled Carlie Brucia more than 21 months ago after an abduction that was captured by a car wash surveillance camera, prosecutors told jurors Monday.

USATODAY.com - Virginia's crime lab has found there were convictions in less than one-quarter of more than 3,000 cases in which analysts matched crime-scene DNA to a genetic profile in the state's databases. The analysis is the first major study of what happens in criminal cases after a DNA match is found.

AP - The two residents aboard the international space station floated outside the complex Monday to install a huge camera and discard a probe that monitors the environment outside the station.

AP - The Supreme Court refused Monday to consider shielding employers from discrimination lawsuits by transsexuals, dodging a workplace rights fight.

AP - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider the appeal of a Honduran national convicted of killing a Virginia teen with a baseball bat.

AP - A rockslide with boulders as big as refrigerators closed Washington state's principal commercial east-west highway, and traffic backed up for miles along alternate routes, officials said.

AP - A death row inmate who walked out of jail in street clothes and was captured three days later while drunk and talking on a pay phone in Louisiana waived his extradition hearing Monday and will be returned to Texas.

AP - Public schools in Broward and Palm Beach counties reopened Monday for the first time since Hurricane Wilma damaged classrooms and cut power to millions of people two weeks ago.

AP - State lawmakers Monday considered ways to strengthen building codes and grappled with a billion-dollar hole in the state budget left by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

AP - A former fugitive who authorities say ordered his wife to shoot a prison guard during a daring courthouse escape was arraigned Monday on a charge of first-degree murder.

AP - Bonne Bell Eckert, retired chairwoman of Bonne Bell Cosmetics, which her father named for her when she was just 4 years old, has died. She was 82.

AP - A woman who was a scientist for a drug company admitted in court Monday that she conspired with her lover five years ago to fatally poison her husband, a pediatric AIDS researcher.

AP - Subways, trolleys and buses started rolling again for the first time in a week Monday after city transit workers agreed to end a strike that forced more than 400,000 daily riders to find some other way to get around.

AP - The Pentagon on Monday announced a troop rotation for Iraq that will stretch through 2008 and be substantially smaller than the current force, but officials said additional units may be added.

AP - Three people were found shot to death in a vehicle on the Navajo Nation, the FBI said Monday.

AP - Senior Wal-Mart executives knew cleaning contractors were hiring illegal immigrants, many who were housed in crowded conditions, and sometimes slept in the backs of stores, according to a federal agency's affidavit.

AP - A Missouri radio talk show host was arrested on murder charges Monday for allegedly poisoning his wife by spiking her Gatorade with a chemical found in antifreeze.

AP - A Nobel Prize-winning physicist was sentenced Monday to two years in prison for killing a man and injuring seven other people while going more than 100 mph in his sports car.

AP - It may not be a fairy-tale romance, but most people seem to agree that the prince is charming. As Prince Charles and his new wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall wrapped up their first U.S. tour together, the weeklong diplomatic mission and charm offensive seemed to have paid off. Among many Americans, the eco-friendly prince and the down-to-earth duchess were a hit.

AP - President Bush voiced his support on Monday for expanding the Panama Canal to allow bigger ships and more cargo to pass through the shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

AP - The married owners of a group home for the mentally ill were convicted Monday of enslaving its residents, forcing them to work naked and perform sex acts, and illegally billing their families and the federal government for therapy.

AP - A fired college professor acted as a 'crime boss' for Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a murderous gang that operated like the Mafia, a federal prosecutor told a jury Monday.

AP - A woman who was a scientist for a drug company admitted in court Monday that she conspired with her lover five years ago to fatally poison her husband, a pediatric AIDS researcher.

AP - The Internal Revenue Service has warned a prominent liberal church that it could lose it's tax-exempt status because of an anti-war sermon a guest preacher gave on the eve of the 2004 presidential election, according to church officials.

AP - Jurors in the trial of a man accused of raping and strangling 11-year-old Carlie Brucia intently watched security camera images Monday of a man grabbing her in a parking lot.

AP - An Arabic translator for the Army may have secretly helped Iraqi insurgents by taking classified documents home from Iraq to Brooklyn, where he made a series of calls to numbers linked to the insurgency, a federal prosecutor said Monday.