AP - The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday sued volunteers for an event with President Bush, saying they violated the civil rights of two people who were tossed out because of their political views.

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Officials in the northern Idaho town of Santa, Idaho, on Monday voted to rename the 115-person hamlet Secretsanta.com to hype an online gift exchange management service.

AP - West Virginia is buying land for what federal officials say is the nation's first plan to establish permanent housing sites for people displaced by natural disasters.

AP - Michael Sessions began talking about running for mayor when he was a sophomore in high school. He realized that dream before he got his diploma.

AP - Some Arizona farmers are finding a way to squeeze a bit more money out of their land — by opening it up to tourists who want to learn how their meals get from the ground to the dinner table.

AP - Creationism and intelligent design are going to be studied at the University of Kansas, but not in the way advocated by opponents of the theory of evolution.

AP - Strangers from around the country are offering support for a toddler whose teenage father, struggling to raise his daughter on his own, was slain last week on his way home from work.

AP - It started as a laudable idea: build a park and raise a sculpture in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. at the site where he first told an audience, 'I have a dream.'

AP - A courthouse rampage that led to the deaths of a judge and three others could have been avoided if a tentative plea bargain in the shooting suspect's rape case had not fallen through, a defense lawyer said.

AP - The CEO of athletic apparel company Nike is ready to go flying again in the company plane in spite of an hours-long, roller coaster ride while the pilots worked to get the landing gear unstuck.

AP - A man and woman who dated as teenagers have pleaded guilty in the death of their newborn son who was stabbed, beaten and stuffed into a duffel bag full of rocks before being thrown in a flooded quarry six years ago.

AP - Gov. Tom Vilsack said he removed the warden of a prison where two inmates escaped last week by using a homemade grappling hook.

AP - Progress is being made in restoring offshore natural gas facilities shut down by hurricanes, but gas prices will remain high as demand outpaces supply, the head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said Tuesday.

AP - A female teacher pleaded guilty Tuesday to having sex with a 14-year-old student, avoiding prison as part of a plea agreement.

TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Debra LaFave, a former Florida school teacher, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to having sex with a 14-year-old male student and was sentenced to 10 years of community control and probation.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The arraignment of former media baron Conrad Black, who is charged with looting U.S.-based Hollinger International Inc. of nearly $85 million and misusing company perks, was delayed on Tuesday until next week.

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A billion-dollar emergency repair project is well under way along the web of levees protecting New Orleans from floods, but future engineering plans are as murky as ever.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An unmarried teacher says she was discriminated against and fired from her job at a Roman Catholic school in New York for being pregnant and has filed a federal complaint.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It was a dream come true for Marshmallow and Yam, two lucky turkeys from Henning, Minnesota.

AP - An Arab-American college student was convicted Tuesday of joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate President Bush.

AP - A 14-year-old girl who ran off with her boyfriend after he allegedly shot her parents to death did not know that he was going to kill them, her lawyer said Tuesday.

AP - Backers of a proposed constitutional amendment to put a stop to gay marriage in Massachusetts said Tuesday they have gathered almost twice the number of signatures needed to put it on the ballot in 2008.

AP - Debbie Shifter faces the daunting task of whipping up Thanksgiving dinner for 18 in the tiny kitchen of her FEMA trailer.

AP - A clergyman awaiting trial on charges of raping two teenage sisters plunged 400 feet to his death in Sequoia National Park, and federal authorities were investigating Tuesday whether he fell, jumped or was pushed.

AP - A weekend hiker found the skull of one of the 48 women Green River serial killer Gary Ridgway admitted murdering in his 2003 plea bargain with King County prosecutors.

AP - Thousands of low-income Massachusetts residents will receive discounted home heating oil this winter under an agreement signed Tuesday with Venezuela, whose government is a political adversary of the Bush administration.

AP - A 14-year-old girl who ran off with her boyfriend after he allegedly gunned down her parents did not know that he was going to kill them, her lawyer said Tuesday.

AP - The Justice Department on Tuesday sued Missouri for alleged voting law violations, claiming that people who have moved or died may still be eligible to vote due to inaccurate and inflated registration rolls.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has sued Missouri, a swing state won easily by President George W. Bush, for voting violations in the 2004 election, including registering more people to vote in some counties than their entire voting-age population.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday moved to dismiss an indictment against Arthur Andersen, the one-time 'Big Five' accounting firm that was ruined after being found guilty of destroying documents related to energy company Enron Corp.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Fisk is a street fighting man. And the street he's fighting is named Dicks.