CHICAGO (Reuters) - There is an urgent need to treat millions of HIV-infected children in poor areas of the world by developing drugs that are easier to administer and improving medical training, the American Academy of Pediatrics said on Monday.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Testing teenagers and young adults for illegal drugs is problematic, as it misses some abusers who cheat and falsely brands others who are taking prescription medication, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

AP - A fire destroyed the synagogue and residence of a senior rabbi of an anti-Zionist, ultra-Orthodox Jewish group whose members attended an Iran-sponsored conference late last year that debated the occurrence of the Holocaust.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A 'significant slowing' will grip California's economy this year as the subprime mortgage market's turbulence spreads amid a slow homes market, a UCLA Anderson Forecast report released on Monday said.

AP - The half-dozen lobbyists who crowded into a lawmaker's office here recently didn't come bearing campaign cash or votes to swap.

AP - Authorities are investigating a suspicious fire that destroyed the synagogue of an anti-Zionist Jewish group that had been heavily criticized for attending a conference in Iran last year where participants debated the Holocaust.

AP - Police searched for suspects in a mall shooting as the conditions of three wounded victims improved.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. college graduates entering the job market in coming months are facing brighter prospects than a year ago.

DALLAS (Reuters) - U.S. evangelical Christians are divided on global warming, the minimum wage and other issues, but they are united behind a new campaign to end modern slavery around the world.

AP - Four months after two young brothers disappeared while playing outside their home on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, a volunteer search party spotted their tiny bodies encased in the ice of First Thunders Lake.

AP - Amish children carrying lunch pails arrived at a new one-room schoolhouse Monday morning, marking a fresh beginning for students who survived a shooting that killed five classmates last fall.

AP - A weeklong sting operation led to the arrests of 28 men, three who claimed to be Disney employees, on charges of soliciting sex from a minor, authorities said.

AP - The standard advice for how much weight a woman should gain during pregnancy may need to change, according to a rigorous and provocative study suggesting that even accepted weight gains may raise the risk of having an overweight toddler.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Turkeys at a farm in West Virginia have tested positive for what government officials believe is a low-pathogenic strain of the bird flu virus, the U.S. Agriculture Department said late on Sunday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tribune Co. said on Monday it agreed to Chicago real estate magnate Sam Zell's bid to take the newspaper publisher and broadcaster private, and it plans to sell the Chicago Cubs after the 2007 baseball season.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. college graduates entering the job market in coming months are facing brighter prospects than a year ago.

AP - The three young sisters found dead last week at their home had been suffocated, and their 3-year-old brother died from skull fractures, police said Monday as they continued to search for the children's missing mother.

AP - A scientist who created bomb-sniffing technology to help clear land mines won the Lemelson-MIT Prize Monday, a decade after he began developing it under a Pentagon-funded research project.

AP - Union workers at Appalachian Regional Healthcare hospitals went on strike in two states amid a contract dispute already marred by one picket line scuffle.

AP - Police on Monday searched for suspects in a mall shooting as the conditions of three people wounded in the attack improved.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - February, marked by the Valentine's Day service meltdown at JetBlue Airways Corp., was the worst month for U.S. airline on-time performance in more than six years and one of the worst ever, government figures showed on Monday.

ATLANTA, Georgia (Reuters) - Phil Jackson, who coached the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers to a record-tying nine NBA titles, was elected Monday to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

AP - Two people were shot to death Monday morning inside the University of Washington's architecture building, university police said.

AP - Chicago's police superintendent announced Monday he was retiring early as his department tries to deal with two highly publicized videotaped beatings involving off-duty police officers.

AP - Airline hassles are on the rise: More passengers found themselves bumped, their flights delayed or their bags lost last year than in 2005, according to the annual Airline Quality Rating report released Monday.

AP - The mayor said Monday he would veto a bill to ban metal bats from high school baseball in the nation's largest school system, a change that supporters say would make the game safer.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tribune Co. said on Monday it agreed to an $8.2 billion bid by Chicago real estate magnate Sam Zell to take the company private, and it plans to sell the Chicago Cubs after the 2007 baseball season.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two influential think tanks on Monday recommended that U.S. companies adopt a standard template for announcing quarterly earnings, saying clearer financial information would help stem short-term trading bets that might miss the big picture.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Inside a downtown pub just off Peachtree Street, a group of middle-aged men clad head-to-toe in orange contort their bodies and chant a college fight song.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Mitt Romney reported on Monday raising $23 million in the first three months of 2007, putting him ahead of Republican rival Rudolph Giuliani in funding and close to Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

ATLANTA, Georgia (Reuters) - Phil Jackson, who coached the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers to a record-tying nine NBA titles, was elected Monday to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

AP - Police surrounded a house where a prison inmate was believed to have holed up Monday after overpowering an armed guard in a hospital and fleeing with a weapon and a guard's uniform.

AP - Some students and faculty on one of the nation's most conservative campuses want Brigham Young University to withdraw an invitation for Vice President Dick Cheney to speak at commencement later this month.

AP - Chicago's police superintendent announced Monday he was retiring early as his department tries to deal with two highly publicized videotaped beatings involving off-duty police officers.

AP - Behind the county hospital's tall cinderblock walls, a 27-year-old tuberculosis patient sits in a jail cell equipped with a ventilation system that keeps germs from escaping.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of Cuban Americans still stand by the U.S. economic embargo on Cuba, a survey showed on Monday, but their support has fallen to its lowest level since the survey was first taken in 1991.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - February, with the Valentine's Day service meltdown at JetBlue Airways Corp., was the worst month for U.S. airline on-time performance in more than six years, according to government figures.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The early onset of Daylight Savings Time in the United States this year may have been for naught.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - RadioShack Corp. was sued on Monday by the Texas Attorney General's office, which charged that the electronics retailer exposed consumers to potential identity theft by dumping data such as addresses and credit-card numbers in a trash bin behind one of its stores.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles Times staff expressed uncertainty on Monday about billionaire Sam Zell's planned buyout of its parent company even as the newspaper published an unflattering portrait of the real estate mogul as a self-described 'Grave Dancer.'

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Cocaine and amphetamine abusers increase their risk of suffering strokes, a study of Texas hospital patients showed on Monday.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A child's failure to respond to his or her name at one year of age may be an early warning sign of autism or other developmental problems, researchers reported on Monday.

AP - Police arrested a prison inmate at a house where he holed up Monday with a hostage after overpowering a guard in a hospital and fleeing with the guard's gun and uniform, authorities said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The early onset of Daylight Savings Time in the United States this year may have been for naught.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Maryland cab driver accused of attending a militant training camp in Pakistan pleaded guilty on Monday to supporting terrorism.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - RadioShack Corp. was sued on Monday by the Texas Attorney General's office, which charged that the electronics retailer exposed consumers to potential identity theft by dumping data such as addresses and credit-card numbers in a trash bin behind one of its stores.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cities that quickly closed schools and discouraged public gatherings had fewer deaths from the great flu pandemic in 1918 than cities that did not, researchers reported on Monday.

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (Reuters) - New Mexico doctors are allowed to prescribe marijuana to help some seriously ill patients manage symptoms including pain and nausea under a bill signed into law by Gov. Bill Richardson on Monday.

AP - Behind the county hospital's tall cinderblock walls, a 27-year-old tuberculosis patient sits in a jail cell equipped with a ventilation system that keeps germs from escaping. Robert Daniels has been locked up indefinitely, perhaps for the rest of his life, since last July. But he has not been charged with a crime. Instead, he suffers from an extensively drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis, or XDR-TB. It is considered virtually untreatable.

AP - A synagogue of ultra-Orthodox Jews was destroyed by fire on the eve of Passover, raising suspicions Monday that the blaze was deliberately set to target members who participated in an Iranian-led conference on the denial of the Holocaust.

AP - A bell summoned Amish students to a new, more cheerful and more secure one-room schoolhouse Monday, six months to the day after a gunman shot 10 of their classmates, killing five.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A money manager told jurors on Monday that executives at Conrad Black's newspaper publishing company used 'very clever but not illegal' ways to funnel money to a Canadian holding company closely controlled by Black.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jason Giambi drove in three runs to help the New York Yankees rally past the Tampa Bay Devils Rays for a 9-5 Opening Day victory at Yankee Stadium on Monday.