NEW YORK (Reuters) - Burger King Holdings Inc. said it will begin buying eggs and pork from suppliers who do not confine their animals in cages and crates, according to a report in The New York Times.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Frustrated by a bruising, and so far unsuccessful battle to open its first discount store in New York City, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s chief executive said, 'I don't care if we are ever here.'

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan, the site of Super Bowl XVI which allowed San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana to add Most Valuable Player to his trophy room, is on the block.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The singer with defunct punk rock band Mest was freed from a Los Angeles jail on Tuesday after prosecutors declined to prosecute him for stabbing to death a romantic rival two days earlier.

AP - A former employee of a restaurant in a Chicago suburb where seven people were gunned down in 1993 was among the hundreds of people questioned by police after the slayings.

AP - Curtis confides in a quavering voice that he's been feeling sad and lonely as one of the few college students living in a violent housing project.

AP - A gunman who sexually assaulted students as he held them captive in a high school classroom last fall claimed to have lost touch with reality, investigators said in a chilling final report on the attacks.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Retired U.S. Navy medic Charlie Anderson twice thought about committing suicide: once when he feared he would be sent back to Iraq in 2004 and again last year when a friend and fellow veteran killed himself.

AP - City leaders approved a ban on plastic grocery bags after weeks of lobbying on both sides from environmentalists and a supermarket trade group. If Mayor Gavin Newsom signs the ban as expected, San Francisco would be the first U.S. city to adopt such a rule.

AP - The search for a missing mother of four dead children could expand to other countries, police said, as a portrait began to emerge Wednesday of an immigrant family struggling to live the American dream.

AP - About 100 migrants apparently from Haiti were being treated for dehydration Wednesday after their dilapidated sailboat reached the Florida shore, officials said. At least one person died in the crossing.

AP - City leaders approved a ban on plastic grocery bags after weeks of lobbying on both sides from environmentalists and a supermarket trade group. San Francisco would be the first U.S. city to adopt such a rule if Mayor Gavin Newsom signs the ban as expected.

AP - A quick wintry blast brought fierce winds and cold temperatures to normally mild Southern California, but did little to quench the parched region.

AP - Montana residents are used to digging out from snowstorms, but residents of one neighborhood had to put a snowplow to different use: clearing mounds of tumbleweed from their driveways.

AP - Attorneys for polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs will ask the Utah Supreme Court to overturn a judge's ruling that Jeff's criminal trial should stay in the county where his group is based.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Leonor Gavina-Valls's father began selling dark roast coffee to Vietnamese and Armenian immigrants in the late 1960s, seeing a niche market for strong coffee when weaker brands ruled the United States.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Wednesday that it charged two former in-house lawyers at Enron Corp. with securities fraud.

MIAMI (Reuters) - More than 100 Haitian migrants landed on a beach north of Miami on Wednesday after fleeing their impoverished Caribbean homeland aboard a rickety sailboat, authorities said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States could use its large Strategic Petroleum Reserve to counter a short-term disruption in Middle East Gulf oil shipments caused by tensions with Iran, the head of the U.S. Energy Information Administration said Wednesday.

AP - A man accused of helping his wife commit suicide by allowing her to drive the family minivan off a 300-foot cliff with their children inside pleaded guilty Wednesday to child endangerment in a deal that will likely spare him any prison time.

AP - A man freed from prison after 18 years when DNA evidence failed to link him to a 1988 murder sued county police Wednesday claiming they violated his civil rights.

AP - Recognition has been a long time coming for Milton Crenshaw and other members of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-black unit in the Army Air Corps.

AP - Critics of a Navy plan to use dolphins and sea lions to guard waters off the coast of a major submarine base say the ocean is too cold for the plan to work.

AP - Fire broke out in a chemical storage facility Wednesday, forcing as many 700 people to evacuate homes and businesses in the area, officials said.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Leonor Gavina-Valls's father began selling dark roast coffee to Vietnamese and Armenian immigrants in the late 1960s, seeing a niche market for strong coffee when weaker brands ruled the United States.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged two former in-house lawyers at Enron Corp. with securities fraud.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Oprah Winfrey on Wednesday picked Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road' as her next book club selection, a nod bound to launch a sales boom for the American writer's dark tale of a post-apocalyptic father-son journey.

BERKELEY, Calif (Reuters) - Concern over global warming has more U.S. college students looking into careers in alternative energy, leading U.S. universities to add new courses on clean energy technologies and the environment.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A justice of the peace takes a cell phone call just as the bride and groom exchange vows during one ceremony.

AP - The first newborn was discovered swaddled in a blanket on a park bench, an umbilical cord still hanging from his tiny body. Then, at neat 11-month intervals, two more abandoned babies were found in parked pickup trucks in the same neighborhood.

AP - Five tattooed skulls stretch from Marine Cpl. Jeremy Slaton's right elbow to his wrist, spelling out the word 'Death.' He planned to add a tattoo spelling 'Life' on his left arm, but that's on hold because of a Marine policy taking effect Sunday.

AP - The arrest of two women teachers on charges of having sex with their male students has brought cries of lingering racism in one of South Carolina's most conservative counties and evoked some of the South's oldest and deepest-seated racial taboos.

AP - Thick smoke poured from equipment on the roof of a 45-story office building Wednesday, forcing workers into the downtown streets as firefighters rushed inside. No serious injuries were reported.

AP - A key piece of evidence in the case against alleged terrorism operative Jose Padilla came from an Afghan man who told the CIA he found it in an al-Qaida safehouse, according to new court filings.

AP - A man who kept 77 sheep in his suburban home was charged Wednesday with 30 counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty.

AP - Six months after resigning from Congress, former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley remains under criminal investigation for sexually explicit Internet communications with underage boys but has not been charged, authorities said Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jim Hellriegel can't sing and is too old to compete on 'American Idol' but his home-grown Web site is attracting hordes of fans who can't wait 24 hours to find out which aspiring pop star is going home each week.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - You can buy a share of a race horse, a luxury jet and of course a corporation. Now a new study indicates that offering shares of fisheries creates a safer, more profitable and environmentally sound way to fish.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The long list of participants in the subprime mortgage crisis will not go unscathed in sharing the pain but should work together to find solutions to the problem, a U.S. banking regulatory official said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged two former in-house lawyers at Enron Corp. with securities fraud.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. children are being deluged by a tidal wave of TV ads for foods like candy, snacks, sugary cereals and fatty fast food, according to a study that exhaustively tallied the number and type of ads kids see.

AP - Five tattooed skulls stretch from Marine Cpl. Jeremy Slaton's right elbow to his wrist, spelling out the word 'Death.' He planned to add a tattoo spelling 'Life' on his left arm, but that's on hold because of a Marine policy taking effect Sunday.

AP - A woman was convicted Wednesday in the death of her 2-year-old son, who was born with drugs in his system and had been repeatedly returned to her care by child welfare officials despite numerous broken bones, burns and other injuries.

AP - An elderly man who had been dropped off by Dial-a-Ride van at the wrong house in the wrong town died after falling down a flight of stairs.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Average temperatures across California rose slightly from 1950 to 2000, with the greatest warming coming in the state's big cities and mostly caused by urbanization -- not greenhouse gases -- authors of a study released on Wednesday said.

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Britain's Tesco, the world's fifth-largest retailer, believes it will create a new market in U.S. food retailing when it opens in the United States later this year with a new store format.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. children are being deluged by a tidal wave of TV ads for foods like candy, snacks, sugary cereals and fatty fast food, according to a study that exhaustively tallied the number and type of ads kids see.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The biggest obstacle the U.S. nuclear industry must overcome to build new reactors is financing the construction costs, nuclear experts said at a Manhattan Institute conference in New York Wednesday, the 28th anniversary of the Three Mile Island accident.

AP - Two generals singled out for blame in the Pat Tillman case have retired since the Army Ranger was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan, but they remain within reach of the military justice system.

AP - Government Accountability Office investigators are meeting with Army Corps of Engineers officials to ask questions about drainage pumps that were installed before last year's hurricane season even though they apparently were defective.

AP - More than 100 Haitian migrants reached South Florida on Wednesday after spending at least three weeks at sea in a dilapidated sailboat, officials said. One man died in the crossing, and three people were in critical condition from dehydration.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service turned to the characters of 'Star Wars' for inspiration on

AP - Fire broke out Wednesday in a six-story office building, and firefighters used ladders to rescue people as flames shot through the top floors. Five people were injured.

AP - A major snowstorm hit the central Rockies on Wednesday, causing a pair of interstate pileups in northern Wyoming, including one involving a school bus.

AP - Lawmakers and the governor vowed Wednesday to abolish the Texas Youth Commission's board in favor of a juvenile prison czar in a bid to fix a system buckling under allegations of sexual abuse of inmates.

AP - A woman's sex change operation does not free her ex-husband from his alimony obligation, a judge said Wednesday.

AP - Ohio University revoked the master's degree of a mechanical engineering student accused of using others' work in a thesis, the most severe action yet in a review of dozens of research papers, the school said Wednesday.

AP - A major storm swept through the Rockies and onto the Plains on Wednesday, dropping snow that caused highway pileups and spawning tornadoes. At least two people died.

AP - A woman whose boyfriend is accused of trying to have her killed testified in his defense Wednesday and said that despite a court-imposed order of protection, she continues to visit him and is working to have him vindicated.