WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government should require clearer disclosure of hidden fees that erode the investment returns of millions of Americans' 401(k) retirement plans, said a senior lawmaker and pension experts on Tuesday.

AP - As bandaged, bruised teenagers wiped at tears, Michael Bowen was remembered for his upbeat, sturdy character and faith during the memorial service for the first of eight students killed when a tornado tore apart Enterprise High School.

AP - Eric Johnson had already strapped Emily into the passenger seat of a leased single-engine Cessna and taken off from Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport, police said. Moments later the aircraft slammed into the side of a house occupied by Johnson's former mother-in-law.

AP - Investigators are trying to determine why a 68-year-old man opened fire at a menu printing plant, wounding co-workers who had apparently helped him land a job there.

AP - A prisoner enraged by the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by undercover detectives tried to hire someone to behead the New York Police commissioner and bomb police headquarters for $65,000, authorities said.

AP - Police say a man repeatedly stabbed his teenage wife, then gave the knife to his toddler son and told him: 'Now you stab Mommy.'

AP - A suspected drug dealer whose November arrest led to the fatal shooting of an elderly woman during a police raid was arrested again on drug charges.

AP - A couple who sold art through televised auctions admitted selling bogus works and forging signatures of artists including Picasso, Chagall and Dali in a scam that bilked buyers out of millions of dollars, prosecutors said.

AP - It might have been one of the easiest drug busts in the history of the South Carolina Highway Patrol: A car with 43 pounds of marijuana crashed into a trooper's cruiser, authorities said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A prisoner in New York sought to assassinate police Commissioner Ray Kelly, offering an undercover officer posing as a hit man $65,000 to decapitate Kelly and blow up police headquarters, police said on Monday.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict named Monsignor Kevin Joseph Farrell to be new bishop of Dallas, Texas on Tuesday, the Vatican said.

AP - Lottery machines cranked out tickets at a dizzying rate Tuesday as the multistate Mega Millions game drew bettors with a jackpot estimated at a record $355 million.

AP - A woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to swinging her 4-week-old son like a bat to hit her boyfriend and fracturing the infant's skull in the process.

AP - Fierce wind and biting cold kept youngsters home from school Tuesday in upstate New York and authorities warned against perilous driving conditions already blamed for at least four deaths.

AP - Three college football players accused in an attack on Palestinian students have apologized, and the victims' lawyer says they'll drop their complaint once the fourth player says he's sorry.

CINCINNATI (Reuters) - An Indiana pilot killed himself and his 8-year-old daughter on Monday when he crashed a small plane into the home of his former mother-in-law in what police are calling a likely murder-suicide.

AP - Police were sent to 22 Texas Youth Commission facilities and the agency headquarters Tuesday to investigate claims that young inmates were sexually abused and that agency officials covered it up.

AP - The space shuttle pilot at the center of a bizarre love triangle that now has astronaut Lisa Nowak facing attempted kidnapping charges told detectives Nowak 'seemed a little disappointed' but accepting when he told her he was dating another woman, court records released Tuesday show.

AP - Too many paratroopers are deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan to hold the annual All American week celebration for the 82nd Airborne Division this year, a division spokesman said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - After years of steering clear of the spotlight, one of President George W. Bush's twin daughters is writing a book about a teen mother in Central America who has the AIDS virus.

BOSTON (Reuters) - While Martin Scorsese is feted by Hollywood for his Oscar-winning film 'The Departed,' relatives of people killed or tortured by the real-life Boston Irish mobster on which the movie is based are not applauding.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into counterfeit-wine sales and subpoenaed leading rare wine collectors and top auction houses including Christie's in London and Zachys in New York, according a Wall Street Journal report on Tuesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - MTV Networks, owner of the MTV and Comedy Central channels, is pushing a risky new Web strategy to win back young viewers from the likes of YouTube and MySpace.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government should require clearer disclosure of hidden fees eroding the investment returns of millions of Americans' 401(k) retirement plans, lawmakers and pension experts said on Tuesday.

AP - Eric Johnson told his ex-wife, 'You're not going to get her,' shortly before the small plane he was piloting with his 8-year-old daughter crashed into his former mother-in-law's house, killing them both.

AP - Lottery machines cranked out tickets at a dizzying rate Tuesday, boosting the jackpot in the multistate Mega Millions game to an estimated $370 million.

AP - Federal and local prosecutors are considering a plea deal that would mean life in prison for a man accused of kidnapping two boys and sexually abusing one of them, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

AP - Police were sent to all 22 Texas Youth Commission facilities and the agency headquarters Tuesday to investigate claims that young inmates were sexually abused and that agency officials covered it up.

AP - Gov. Ted Strickland told all state agencies Tuesday to stop ordering coffee, lunch and other meals while his office reviews nearly $4 million in food-related expenses in the past two years.

AP - Civil liberties and immigration advocates sued federal officials Tuesday on behalf of children confined to a former Texas prison-turned-center for immigrant families awaiting possible deportation.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Agriculture Department lacked controls to protect personal information on stolen computers and often failed to notify individuals whose information had been compromised, the department's inspector general said on Tuesday.

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Florida's new governor on Tuesday called on state lawmakers to roll back property taxes, reward top teachers and help fight global warming.

AP - Astronaut Bill Oefelein was in orbit aboard the space shuttle in December when he was sent a steamy e-mail from a girlfriend awaiting his return: 'First urge will be to rip your clothes off, throw you on the ground and love the hell out of you.'

AP - The federal agency investigating last week's deadly crash of a bus carrying a college baseball team has for years sought safety improvements that could have reduced the number of injuries from the accident.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An Iraqi national wearing wires and concealing a magnet inside his rectum triggered a security scare at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday but officials said he posed no apparent threat.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is reaching out to more countries as world trade talks slowly gain momentum, a U.S. trade official said on Tuesday, even as some U.S. farmers grow more hostile to a deal.

BOSTON (Reuters) - A veteran Boston Globe reporter has been suspended for plagiarizing parts of a football column from another publication, the newspaper said on Tuesday in the latest incident to embarrass the U.S. media.

AP - Bill Tompkins was serving with the Army in Iraq when he got the call to come home and bury his son, one of eight students killed when a tornado ripped through a high school last week.

BOSTON (Reuters) - More than 20 Vermont towns passed resolutions on Tuesday seeking to impeach President Bush, while 13 towns in the tiny New England state called on Washington to bring U.S. troops back from Iraq.

SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - Seeking to give voters in the nation's most populous state a greater voice in choosing the next U.S. president, California's state assembly agreed on Tuesday to move its presidential primary to February 2008.

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Black Cherokee Indians said on Tuesday they will challenge a weekend vote to kick them out of the tribe that once owned their ancestors as slaves.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (Reuters) - Texas on Tuesday executed a San Antonio man condemned to death for the murders of two rivals in a 1994 gang leadership dispute.

AP - A 16-year-old accused of videotaping two youngsters who were taught to smoke pot has been ordered to remain in the custody of Tarrant County juvenile authorities.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Ernest Gallo, a pioneer and giant in the U.S. wine industry, died on Tuesday at age 97 of natural causes at his Modesto, California, home, family spokesman John Segale said.

AP - A man who police say killed his wife in their suburban Detroit home, then disposed of her remains in a park, was arraigned Tuesday on charges of first-degree murder and dismemberment of a body.

AP - Police went to 22 Texas Youth Commission facilities and the agency headquarters Tuesday to investigate claims that young inmates were sexually abused and that agency officials covered it up.

AP - A brass cross will be permanently displayed in a chapel at the College of William and Mary under a compromise announced Tuesday, several months after the president's decision to remove it caused an outcry.

AP - A man who tried to pin his wife's brutal slaying on their 12-year-old daughter was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for first-degree murder.