BOSTON, March 6 (Reuters Life!) - More than 30 Vermont towns passed resolutions on Tuesday seeking to impeach President Bush, while at least 16 towns in the tiny New England state called on Washington to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq.

ALMATY (Reuters) - Fictional Kazakh TV reporter Borat has made an unexpected cameo appearance as a victim of censorship in a heavyweight annual human rights report issued by the State Department.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Twelve-year-old Bridget Bailey has been cheerleading since she was eight, and devotes at least 10 hours a week to her passion -- a uniquely American sport that combines dance, gymnastics and acrobatic stunts.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For Italian chef Giada De Laurentiis, being in the kitchen or getting out for a weekend getaway are all about the same thing -- enjoying the pleasures of food.

AP - A watchdog group says the $14 billion blueprint for rebuilding the city after Hurricane Katrina is a muddled wish-list of projects, and city officials should use the best parts to create a more cohesive, realistic plan.

AP - A man charged with trying to hire a hit man to behead the city's police commissioner is mentally ill, and his threats were nothing more than talk, his attorney said.

AP - Removing an 18-inch brass cross from the altar of the oldest college chapel in the United States proved a costly decision — dozens of alumni withheld contributions, including one whose pledges totaled $12 million.

AP - He was one of Spain's top bullfighters but mysteriously withdrew from the ring at the peak of his career. Now he is back, electrifying the national pastime with plans to perform in a city where anti-bullfighting sentiment is strong.

AP - Firefighters responded to reports of a fire at Mount Sinai Medical Center on Wednesday morning, and a security supervisor said parts of the hospital were being evacuated.

AP - A local chapter of the Boy Scouts of America has agreed to pay $330,000 and plant 9,000 tree seedlings to settle a state lawsuit over a wildfire that burned 14,200 acres, officials said.

AP - Mollie Hudson, a social worker, has some hungry boys to feed and a pocketbook that can barely keep up.

NEW YORK (Reuters) At least two people had winning tickets in Tuesday's $370 million Mega Millions lottery.

ALMATY (Reuters) - Fictional Kazakh TV reporter Borat has made an unexpected cameo appearance as a victim of censorship in a heavyweight annual human rights report issued by the State Department.

AP - Fire broke out in a doctor's seventh-floor office at Mount Sinai Medical Center on Wednesday, injuring six people and forcing the staff to move more than a dozen patients, officials said.

AP - The case against two men charged in a botched advertising scheme that created a bomb scare in the Boston area could be resolved by the end of the month, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

AP - Kyle King remembers everything about the bus crash that killed four of his Bluffton University teammates, including the scream that woke him just before the impact.

AP - A 78-year-old jogger was recovering Wednesday after he was hit by a car and pronounced dead by a passer-by, then revived by a passing sheriff's deputy.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - One person shot himself to death following an incident at a high school in Midland, Michigan, that left another person wounded, media reports said said on Wednesday.

CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The state of Ohio said on Wednesday that it had reached a $144 million settlement with Time Warner Inc. on behalf of six state funds that claimed they were defrauded after the media conglomerate merged with the online service AOL.

AP - A gunman shot and wounded his teenage ex-girlfriend in a high school parking lot Wednesday, then fatally shot himself, police said.

AP - Authorities have arrested the man they believe abducted 13-year-old Clay Moore from a bus stop last month and left him tied up in the woods, officials said Wednesday.

AP - Dozens of young children were stranded at schools and with baby-sitters after their parents were rounded up by federal authorities who raided a leather goods maker suspected of hiring illegal immigrants, authorities said Wednesday.

AP - Jurors began deliberations Wednesday in the murder trial of a sex offender accused of kidnapping 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford from her Florida home and burying her alive in trash bags.

AP - The district attorney dropped a defamation charge against a man accused of driving his ex-boss to suicide, saying the charge was probably unconstitutional.

AP - When Dee Riddle heard the breaking glass, she thought her bathroom mirror must have shattered.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Twelve former U.S. soldiers challenged the government's 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy that bars openly declared gays from the military, telling a federal court on Wednesday it forced them into a life of lies.

MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida jury convicted a registered sex offender on Wednesday of kidnapping, raping and murdering a 9-year-old girl who was snatched from her bed and buried alive in a plastic garbage bag.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumers will see higher grocery bills this year thanks to a surge in wholesale corn prices, pushed higher by an ethanol fuel boom, that will be passed on by food manufacturers, the industry said on Wednesday.

BOSTON (Reuters) - At least 200 children were stranded on Wednesday after federal officials detained 350 suspected illegal immigrants at a Massachusetts factory that made supplies for the U.S. military.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A man who intentionally spat at another can be charged with criminal assault, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday.

AP - Somewhere out there are two lottery tickets good for a record $390 million jackpot, and one was bought at a convenience store surrounded by carpet mills in the self-proclaimed 'Carpet Capital of the World.'

AP - A year and a half after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, FEMA is auctioning off at fire-sale prices thousands of trailers used by storm victims, raising fears among mobile-home dealers that the government will flood the market and depress prices.

AP - A new combat truck with a V-shaped bottom designed to withstand blasts from roadside bombs is performing with such success in Iraq that the U.S. military is pressing a Wisconsin company and others to churn out hundreds more in the coming months.

AP - A Mexican national surrendered at the U.S. border Wednesday on allegations of abducting a 13-year-old from a Florida bus stop last month and leaving him tied up in the woods before the boy escaped, officials said.

AP - As the easternmost point in the United States, Lubec gets some of the earliest sunrises in America. But it also gets some of the most depressingly early sunsets, with the sun slipping below the horizon before 4 p.m. for weeks on end in early winter.

AP - An unknown number of new George Washington dollar coins were mistakenly struck without their edge inscriptions, including 'In God We Trust,' and are fetching around $50 apiece online.

AP - Farmer Phil Prutch isn't sure about putting Colorado convicts to work in his fields this summer. But then again, he says, he doesn't have much of a choice.

AP - Police ended their nearly 20-year practice of providing around-the-clock security at the former headquarters of the radical back-to-nature group MOVE, a city official said.

AP - Attorneys for undocumented immigrants who have suffered violent crimes sued the federal government Wednesday for failing to issue protective visas approved by Congress more than six years ago.

AP - A federal grand jury indicted the leader of a polygamous sect Wednesday, accusing him of fleeing to avoid prosecution on Utah sex charges.

AP - Five associates of a Missouri-based Islamic charity were indicted on charges that they illegally sent money to Iraq, the U.S. attorney's office announced Wednesday.

AP - The new baby elephant at Saint Louis Zoo will be known as Jade.

SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - A federal grand jury in Utah on Wednesday indicted U.S. polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs on an additional charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three newspapers said this week they will drop Ann Coulter's column after the conservative author referred to U.S. Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards as a 'faggot.'

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. Olympic officials gave high marks to Chicago's bid for the 2016 Summer Games on Wednesday, saying the city's plan differed substantially from Los Angeles' rival proposal.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two California men were arrested on Wednesday in connection with a 2004 scandal over the sale of cadavers which had been donated to the University of California Los Angeles for medical research, prosecutors said.

AP - Astronaut Lisa Nowak was fired from NASA on Wednesday, a month after she was charged with trying to kidnap a woman she regarded as her romantic rival for the affections of a space shuttle pilot.

AP - The city's tourism office officially launched its first major international advertising effort Wednesday, aiming to sell potential visitors a new New York, one that's as much the birthplace of hip-hop as it is the home of the Empire State Building.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (Reuters) - A man who spent 25 years on Texas death row was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for a 1980 murder after prison officials had to carry him to the death chamber.

AP - Prison workers soon might force feed a former university professor who has been on a hunger strike for six weeks to protest his imprisonment for refusing to testify about Palestinian charities, his lawyer said Wednesday.

AP - A former UCLA official and an associate were arrested Wednesday on charges that they illegally sold parts of bodies donated for research in a scheme that produced more than $1 million in profits. After years of investigation by campus police, Henry Reid, 57, former director of the Willed Body Program, was arrested at his Anaheim home. Associate Ernest Nelson, 49, was taken into custody in Rancho Cucamonga.

AP - Bruised and bandaged, college baseball players stood in a circle and put their arms around one another Wednesday at the funeral for one of their four teammates killed in a bus wreck. Scott Harmon, a 19-year-old freshman at Bluffton University, was remembered as being passionate about sports and as a prankster who was the life of the party.

AP - Two airline baggage handlers used their employee uniforms and identification cards to enter restricted areas, bypass screeners and carry a duffel bag loaded with guns and drugs into a plane's passenger cabin, according to court documents released Wednesday.

AP - Was she casting spells or teaching spelling? In an unfolding trial, lawyers are debating a former teacher's claims in a $2 million federal lawsuit that she was improperly fired from Hampton Bays elementary school because administrators and others thought she was a witch.