NEW YORK (Reuters) - Manhattan apartment prices rose 6.6 percent per square foot on average in the first quarter from a year ago, bucking a broad U.S. decline as Wall Street bonuses boosted buyer income, according to a leading market report.

AP - Three airline pilots have asked an appeals court to let them keep flying past the mandatory retirement age of 60, a limit federal regulators plan to raise to 65.

AP - The city said Monday it has positively identified two more Sept. 11 victims from thousands of unidentified human remains that have been retested in recent months.

AP - A centuries-old Stradivari violin sold Monday for more than $2.7 million, well above its estimated worth before the sale, Christie's auction house said.

AP - Prosecutors said Monday they will not file criminal charges in the death of a 28-year-old woman who participated in a radio station's water-drinking contest.

AP - A sixth-grade teacher was convicted Monday of making false bomb threats that targeted five students attending the middle school where she taught.

AP - The Gators broke the hearts of Buckeye fans once again. Just three months after the University of Florida trounced a heavily favored Ohio State squad in college football's national championship game, the Gators snatched another national championship from the Buckeyes — this time in men's basketball.

AP - In the last weeks of her life, Rebecca Griego was taking drastic steps to avoid an ex-boyfriend whose violence and threats had left her visibly shaken.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four U.S. soldiers were killed in combat in Iraq on Monday, the U.S. military said, bringing the U.S. death toll since the invasion to 3,257.

AP - More than anything, David and Regina Bakala wanted to become American citizens. They claimed their lives depended on it.

AP - In the last weeks of her life, Rebecca Griego was taking drastic steps to avoid an ex-boyfriend whose violence and threats had left her visibly shaken.

OSLO (Reuters) - More than two-thirds of the world's people are worried by global warming with Americans among the least anxious even though their nation is the top source of greenhouse gases, an opinion poll showed on Tuesday.

CINCINNATI (Reuters) - For years, political leaders touted rising homeownership rates as a sign the 'American Dream' was being fulfilled but more than a million looming foreclosures have called the dream into question.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Tuesday that discount retailer Dollar General Corp. is recalling about 396,000 metal key chains for lead poisoning hazard.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Manhattan apartment prices rose 6.6 percent per square foot on average in the first quarter from a year ago, bucking a broad U.S. decline as Wall Street bonuses boosted buyer income, according to a leading market report.

AP - In the last weeks of her life, Rebecca Griego was taking drastic steps to avoid an ex-boyfriend whose violence and threats had left her visibly shaken.

AP - A faded green folder containing letters, notes and speeches believed to be written by slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is set to be auctioned off in two weeks, and the King estate wants the sale effort stopped.

AP - Two more victims of the Sept. 11 attacks have been identified from the thousands of human remains that have been retested in recent months, city officials announced.

AP - Massachusetts' governor ordered state officials to record the marriages of 26 out-of-state gay couples whose unions were blocked by his predecessor, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

AP - A Marine lance corporal who said he had an aversion to killing and participating in war must be released from the military as a conscientious objector, a federal judge ruled.

AP - In the last weeks of her life, Rebecca Griego was taking drastic steps to avoid an ex-boyfriend whose violence and threats had left her visibly shaken.

AP - The Gators broke the hearts of Buckeye fans once again.

AP - Advanced DNA technology has helped identify two more Sept. 11 victims whose remains were found shortly after the terrorist attacks in 2001, the medical examiners office said.

AP - It's not drunken driving in New Jersey if it involves a Zamboni.

AP - State officials suspect red tide may have killed some of the 26 manatees found dead in the Fort Myers area over the past two weeks.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Tuesday he planned no new action to impose caps on greenhouse gases blamed for global warming despite the Supreme Court ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate U.S. emissions.

AP - Massachusetts' governor ordered state officials to record the marriages of 26 out-of-state gay couples whose unions were blocked by his predecessor, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

AP - A boy playing with friends around a gravel bin got trapped inside when a conveyer system started and buried the 9-year-old under the rocks. He was rescued without serious injuries about an hour later.

AP - A former nurse was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder and genital mutilation of her 61-year-old ex-husband.

AP - Two more victims of the Sept. 11 attacks have been identified from the thousands of human remains that have been retested in recent months, city officials announced.

AP - An explosion started a fire in a high-rise apartment building Tuesday, killing one person and severely burning two others, officials said.

AP - A Congolese couple who claimed they would be tortured or killed if deported to their African homeland has been granted asylum, bringing them one step closer to becoming American citizens.

AP - Federal health privacy law does not prohibit hospital personnel from giving police access to a patient who was a crime victim, a federal judge ruled.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc. may be famous for instant searches, but it took a bit longer to find a 3-foot (one meter) python that escaped in its massive Manhattan offices.

AP - A domestic dispute erupted in gunfire in CNN's headquarters complex Tuesday, killing one person and critically wounding another, authorities said.

AP - A freelance videographer who spent more time behind bars than any other journalist for refusing to testify to a grand jury is expected to be freed after reaching a deal with prosecutors, lawyers said Tuesday.

AP - Dr. Johnny Glenn, the lone forensic pathologist performing autopsies in the poorest part of Alabama, was slipping.

AP - For someone who didn't speak for 17 years, John Francis is making himself heard.

AP - An Air Force Academy cadet who plunged about 50 feet from a cruise ship balcony into the ocean with a female passenger thanked his rescuers Tuesday but didn't discuss the details of what happened.

AP - Gov. Jon S. Corzine came into office vowing to set a new standard for ethics in New Jersey's corruption-tinged political scene. But his refusal to discuss gifts he gave a union leader — his former girlfriend — has raised questions about his ability to make reforms.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - When gasoline prices surge, U.S. drivers will do almost anything to lessen the sting of filling up their tanks -- except drive less, according to the National Association of Convenience Stores.

BOSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. auto industry can expect stronger regulations on carbon dioxide emissions, but experts said carmakers may be spared from having to adapt to a patchwork of varying state standards, following a Supreme Court decision, experts said on Tuesday.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Younger women may be able to safely take hormone replacement therapy to treat menopause symptoms based on a new analysis of a big U.S. study that had raised alarms about health risks and driven down sales of treatment drugs, according to a report released on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Darden Restaurants Inc., owner of the Red Lobster and Olive Garden restaurant chains, has settled charges that it failed to fully disclose gift card fees to consumers, U.S. regulators said on Tuesday.

AP - A freelance videographer who spent more time behind bars than any other journalist for refusing to testify to a grand jury won a judge's permission for his release Tuesday, lawyers said.

AP - Some worried pet owners are grinding up meat in their kitchens and making their own dog and cat food because of the contamination scare blamed for numerous animal deaths.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - FBI investigators have visited Second Life's Internet casinos at the invitation of the virtual world's creator Linden Lab, but the U.S. government has not decided on the legality of virtual gambling.

MENLO PARK, Calif (Reuters) - Venture capitalists in Silicon Valley have been searching for the next big thing in high-tech for years, but now many have switched to greener pursuits -- finding technology to help cut global warming.

NASSAU (Reuters) - DNA test results ordered by a Bahamas judge to identify the father of late Playboy Playmate and tabloid star Anna Nicole Smith's six-month-old baby daughter, Dannielynn, were not made public on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday that it has terminated a proceeding that considered the use of cellular phones on airplanes.

AP - A freelance videographer walked out of federal prison Tuesday after spending more time behind bars than any other journalist for refusing to testify to a grand jury.

AP - It took nearly seven hours, the demolition of a bathroom and a sturdy extension ladder for rescue workers to remove a more than 700-pound woman from her home here, officials said.

AP - The trial of an alleged 'sleeper agent' for Saddam Hussein's intelligence service began Tuesday with a federal prosecutor accusing him of spying on Iraqi dissidents in the United States.

AP - Five fifth-grade students face criminal charges after authorities said four of them had sex in front of other students in an unsupervised classroom and kept a classmate posted as a lookout for teachers.

AP - A Honolulu-bound jetliner was diverted on Tuesday when a female passenger who had smoked in the lavatory became unruly, federal officials said.

AP - An armed employee who was fired Tuesday barricaded himself in a nursing home with some residents still inside, authorities said. He was taken into custody after about three hours.

AP - An eighth-grader faces a terrorism charge for confronting a girl with a knife and later being found with a backpack full of restraining devices and weapons, a prosecutor said. The 14-year-old told police he planned to hold his class hostage, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas said Monday.

AP - A nursing home employee who was fired returned with a handgun and took four hostages Tuesday before surrendering three hours later, police said. No one was injured.