LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rafael Marquez captured the World Boxing Council super bantamweight title on Saturday when holder Israel Vazquez quit on his stool before the start of the eighth round due to breathing difficulties from a broken nose.

AP - Cherokee Nation members voted Saturday to revoke the tribal citizenship of an estimated 2,800 descendants of the people the Cherokee once owned as slaves.

AP - A trial for an alleged Mexican drug kingpin accused of smuggling as much as six tons of cocaine a month into the U.S. has been postponed until later this year.

AP - The highway exit ramp where a bus carrying an Ohio college baseball team wrecked has been the site of numerous crashes and can be difficult for drivers to navigate, a federal transportation official said.

AP - Four purebred Yorkshire terriers stolen at gunpoint during a home invasion robbery more than a week ago were returned to their owners after a man turned himself in to police.

AP - Proper manners authority Marjabelle Young Stewart, the author of more than 20 books and ruler of the 'White Gloves' and 'Blue Blazers' children's etiquette empires, has died. She was 82.

AP - The highway exit ramp where a bus carrying an Ohio college baseball team wrecked has been the site of numerous crashes and can be difficult for drivers to navigate, a federal transportation official said.

AP - Officials in a suburban New York village will not appeal a federal judge's decision to temporarily block its upcoming election after federal officials said the voting method discriminates against Hispanics and violates the Voting Rights Act.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space shuttle Atlantis was removed from its seaside launch pad on Sunday for repairs after a freak hailstorm battered the spaceship's fuel tank last week.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Sunday said he feels good about the U.S. economy and does not see the country slipping into recession.

AP - Lawmakers promised a quick response and sought an independent commission as they expressed outrage Sunday over the poor conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.

AP - Think of the uses of $300 billion, the annual gap between what taxpayers owe and what they pay.

AP - Georgia transportation officials said Sunday they had no immediate plans to close or add safety signs to the highway exit ramp where a bus carrying a college baseball team crashed and killed six people, including the driver.

AP - Nearly three years after suitcases full of body parts washed up along Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, a nurse who helped infertile women conceive is to go on trial this week on charges that she killed and dismembered her husband.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Outspoken U.S. conservative columnist Ann Coulter is drawing fire from Republicans and Democrats alike after publicly using a derogatory gay slur in reference to Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards.

AP - The white supremacist gang Public Enemy No. 1 began two decades ago as a group of teenage punk-rock fans from upper-middle class bedroom communities in Southern California.

AP - At an age when most of his contemporaries were long out to pasture or in prison, Matty 'The Horse' Ianniello was still riding high.

AP - Curtis Martin was lifting weights at daybreak when he saw on television that a bus carrying Bluffton University's baseball team had plunged off an overpass in Georgia.

AP - Yugoslavia's last monarch, exiled from his homeland during World War II, ended up in a tomb inside an ornately decorated church outside Chicago, a place that still attracts his loyal followers.

AP - NAACP President Bruce S. Gordon said Saturday he is quitting the civil rights organization.

AP - A hearing this week just blocks from the World Trade Center site is aimed at determining whether the federal government will extend its terrorism property insurance program that is due to expire at the end of the year.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Former U.S. Sen. Thomas Eagleton of Missouri, running mate of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. George McGovern in 1972, died on Sunday from heart problems at age 77, a statement by his family said.

AP - The Cherokee Nation vote this weekend to revoke the citizenship of the descendants of people the Cherokee once owned as slaves was a blow to people who have relied on tribal benefits.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A prescription drug benefit of the U.S. Medicare program is a 'financially irresponsible' addition to a system that was already on course for possible bankruptcy, the U.S. government's top accountant said in an interview on Sunday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is relying on a 'dysfunctional' computer system for tracking drug safety as it struggles to upgrade its technology, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing a report commissioned by the FDA.

AP - Residents of this city devastated by a tornado that killed eight high school students paused from recovery efforts Sunday to mourn at church services, where some lined up to hug and offer words of encouragement for the school superintendent.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people, Bruce Gordon, is stepping down after 19 months at the nation's largest civil rights organization, the New York Times reported in Monday's editions.

AP - The megachurch founded by the Rev. Ted Haggard, who was fired over drug and sex allegations, has laid off 44 people amid falling income following the scandal.

AP - FEMA abruptly closed down a site housing Hurricane Katrina victims Sunday because of health and safety concerns, and its weary residents said they were being left in the lurch once again since losing everything in the storm.