AP - Anti-war activists draped themselves in white sheets and laid down in the street to symbolize Iraq's dead, halting traffic in the heart of the city and leading to 57 arrests on the fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion, police said.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - His biceps steel hard, injured Iraq war veteran Ken Sargent is looking more like the career soldier who shipped out for his second tour than the severely wounded man who was evacuated from Najaf in August 2004. But his appearance only tells part of the story.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday after a court-martial found him guilty of killing three Iraqi detainees who were freed and told to run before being shot, officials at Fort Campbell in Kentucky said.

AP - A college maintenance worker investigating a 'pinging' sound discovered a body inside a dormitory's high-voltage utility room, not far from where a 19-year-old Purdue University student disappeared in January, officials said.

AP - In the months before a fatal wildfire killed five firefighters, a serial arsonist was trying out different incendiary devices to see what worked best and setting nearly two dozen fires ranging from a few square feet to thousands of acres, prosecutors said.

AP - Golf course workers uncovering the tees for the season discovered a human skull at a suburban Chicago club and found bones nearby in the fairway, authorities said.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Barbara Anderson and her husband know racism. Among the first black people to move into an Ohio neighborhood 25 years ago, she watched in horror as white neighbors burned her garage nearly to the ground.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Besides choosing a car seat and setting up a college fund, Claire Rhye had one more decision to make before her first child arrived: what to do with her baby's umbilical cord blood.

AP - A man convicted of killing a woman and scattering her remains across two states was at Ohio's death house Tuesday, and his execution team was prepared to carry out the lethal injection even though an appeals court had blocked it.

AP - Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing an account worth $38 billion. It happened to a computer technician reformatting a disk drive at the Alaska Department of Revenue.

AP - A pickup truck driver who swerved to avoid another vehicle ran over three children near a disabled car along Interstate 75, killing two of them, authorities said.

AP - An anti-smoking group called on the U.S. National Slavery Museum to return a donation from tobacco giant Philip Morris USA, saying the company targets children 'for another form of slavery.'

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Conrad Black and his former associates were greedy thieves who stole millions that should have gone to shareholders, prosecutors told a jury at the start of the failed media tycoon's criminal fraud trial on Tuesday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - His biceps steel hard, injured Iraq war veteran Ken Sargent is looking more like the career soldier who shipped out for his second tour than the severely wounded man who was evacuated from Najaf in August 2004. But his appearance only tells part of the story.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Conrad Black and his former associates were greedy thieves who stole millions from investors, prosecutors told a jury on Tuesday, but lawyers for the failed media baron said he was guilty of nothing and himself a victim of corporate villainy.

FAIRFAX, Kansas (Reuters) - President George W Bush used the backdrop of visits to struggling U.S. automakers on Tuesday to pitch his energy agenda, promoting passenger vehicles that use less or no gasoline as a way to reduce oil consumption.

DALLAS (Reuters) - They say everything is bigger in Texas.

AP - High-priced call girls always seem to have their little black books. Deborah Jeane Palfrey, accused of running an illegal escort service in the nation's capital, has 46 pounds of phone records.

AP - A mentally ill father who fatally shot his two sons and himself at their university last year had thought someone was planning to kidnap, torture and kill his youngest son, according to the man's notes.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Frito-Lay said a dead mouse discovered in a bag of its potato chips did not enter the bag on its watch, but the school where the mouse was found will not lay claim to it either.

BOSTON (Reuters) - A Rhode Island woman who routinely had sex with her boyfriend in front of her 9-year-old daughter to teach her about sex was sentenced to three years' probation, authorities said on Tuesday.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California utility Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will install a solar energy system at the San Francisco Giants' AT&T Park, believed to be the first solar power plant at a major league baseball park.

AP - Indian leaders and former astronaut Buzz Aldrin awaited their chance Tuesday to walk beyond the edge of the Grand Canyon during opening ceremonies for a glass-bottom observation deck that lets tourists gaze deep into the chasm.

AP - At least 219 gay couples applied to join in civil unions during the first month the legal institution was available in New Jersey, a state agency said in a report issued Tuesday.

AP - Thirteen-year-old Katharine Tuck's sneakers are equal opportunity offenders. They smell as bad as they look. Now, the Utah seventh grader is $2,500 richer because of it: On Tuesday, she out-ranked six other children to win the 32nd annual National Odor-Eaters Rotten Sneaker Contest, stinking up the joint with a pair of well-worn 1 1/2-year-old Nikes so noxious they had the judges wincing.

GRAND CANYON WEST, Arizona (Reuters) - Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin took the ceremonial first step on Tuesday onto a glass-bottomed walkway overhanging the Grand Canyon that backers hope will lure tourists to the remote west rim.

CLAYCOMO, Missouri (Reuters) - President George W. Bush used visits to struggling U.S. automakers on Tuesday to pitch his energy agenda, promoting cars that use less or no gasoline as a way to cut oil use and tailpipe emissions.

AP - The discovery of the body of a missing Purdue University student in a dormitory's high-voltage utility room has school officials and his family wondering how a door to such a dangerous area was left unlocked.

AP - A former astronaut's trial date has been set for July 30 on charges that she tried to kidnap another woman in what police call a love triangle involving a fellow astronaut, according to state prosecutors.

AP - The U.S. Supreme Court blocked the execution of a man who had been scheduled to die Tuesday for killing a woman and scattering her remains across two states.

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ALBANY, New York (Reuters) - A former doctor pleaded guilty on Tuesday for her role in a suspected ring that prosecutors say sold at least $40 million worth of steroids over the Internet.

HANOI (Reuters) - Actor Angelina Jolie finalized the adoption of a Vietnamese orphan on Tuesday, adding a fourth child to her family, according to the U.S.-based adoption agency that organized the process.

AP - A judge on Tuesday ordered a man accused of setting a wildfire that killed five firefighters to stand trial on charges of murder and arson.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Conrad Black's lawyer told a jury on Tuesday the failed media baron comes off as 'snotty' and arrogant but he is not the thief U.S. government prosecutors claim.

AP - A teenager who was chasing a ball at recess became trapped under a heavy concrete slab for about two hours Tuesday before emergency crews could remove it and rush him to a hospital. Robert Maust, 14, was pale and cold but otherwise in good spirits when crews pulled him from the gully where he had been stuck, said his father, Jason.

AP - A factory fire spewing what authorities initially believed was toxic smoke prompted evacuations Tuesday of homes and farms near this northern Iowa town.

AP - An international team of mathematicians has cracked a 120-year-old puzzle that researchers say is so complicated that its handwritten solution would cover the island of Manhattan.

AP - G.E. Patterson, the presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ and a minister for almost 50 years, died of heart failure Tuesday, the church announced. He was 67.

AP - A former astronaut could go to trial in late July on charges that she tried to kidnap a woman in what police call a love triangle involving a fellow astronaut, according to state prosecutors.

DALLAS (Reuters) - Texas executed a man by lethal injection on Tuesday for the murder of a clerk during a convenience store robbery in Dallas in the state's ninth execution this year.

AP - A seventh-grader might end up in court for wearing Winnie the Pooh socks to school.