AP - The Bush administration and the Defense Department are among the winners of the 2007 Jefferson Muzzle awards, given Tuesday by a free-speech group to those it considers the most egregious First Amendment violators in the past year.

AP - Nine states have come together for the first time to develop a common high school math test, a move described by some as a step toward national educational standards.

AP - Ninety minutes after reporting to work, Jean Larson heard what turned out to be deadly gunfire inside her office building — then 'all hell broke loose.'

AP - A Naval Academy midshipman faces up to 10 years in prison and dismissal from the military school after being convicted of sexually assaulting a fellow student at a Washington hotel last year.

AP - Questions for prospective jurors in the trial of a preacher's wife accused of killing her husband paint a picture of a woman who was psychologically unable to free herself from an abusive marriage.

AP - A Naval Academy midshipman faces up to 10 years in prison and dismissal from the military school after being convicted of sexually assaulting a fellow student at a Washington hotel last year.

AP - Kenneth Bartley Jr. was 14 when police say he pulled a gun from his pocket in the principal's office, loaded it and started firing. Now, he is set to stand trial as an adult for first-degree murder and attempted murder.

AP - A dozen jurors were selected for the corruption trial of former state Sen. John Ford, with potential panelists quizzed on what they have read in newspapers or seen on TV about him.

AP - A health department worker who gave a passing grade to a fast-food restaurant crawling with rats resigned before she could be fired as the health commissioner acknowledged systemic flaws in the city's inspection system.

AP - Breaking from tradition, high school students in this small town are getting together for this year's prom.

AP - Fire broke out in an apartment building early Tuesday, killing four people and injuring at least eight others, most of them children, a Fire Department official said.

AP - In the first complaint the city health department received about a rodent-infested fast-food restaurant, someone said a rat fell from the ceiling as he or she was eating.

AP - The Bush administration and the Defense Department are among the winners of the 2007 Jefferson Muzzle awards, given Tuesday by a free-speech group to those it considers the most egregious First Amendment violators in the past year.

MIAMI (Reuters) - A delivery truck triggered a security alert at the Federal Reserve Bank branch in a Miami suburb on Tuesday, police said. The Atlanta branch of the Fed, however, declared the situation was all clear.

AP - A disk containing the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of 2.9 million Medicaid and children's health care recipients is missing, Georgia health officials said Tuesday.

AP - Ohio's governor said Tuesday he is worried that National Guard troops who have been told to prepare for a possible deployment to Iraq won't have proper training and equipment.

AP - Immigration activists are calling for a repeat of last year's boycott and massive marches for immigrants' rights that drew more than 1 million people to the streets in dozens of cities nationwide.

AP - The weekend cold snap damaged crops across the Southeast and parts of the Midwest, and was especially devastating for fruit growers.

AP - Fifty-three Nobel laureates are calling on Turkey and Armenia to open their border and resolve their differences over the mass killings of Armenians by Turks in the early 20th century.

AP - Questions being asked of prospective jurors for the trial of a preacher's wife accused of killing her husband paint a picture of a woman who was psychologically unable to free herself from an abusive marriage.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - American Airlines, the world's largest airline, says it can boost revenue by $94 million a year by tailoring some of its services to the growing number of women travelers.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A heifer born from an animal in the same herd as a Canadian bull diagnosed in February with mad cow disease was exported to the United States in 2002, but a U.S. official said on Tuesday there is no evidence the animal had the brain-wasting disease.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts' highest court ruled on Tuesday that a new trial can be held for a Harvard University student who killed a man in a street fight, upholding a lower judge's verdict.

AP - A U.S. House committee has scheduled hearings on the military's misleading statements that followed the friendly fire death of Pat Tillman in Afghanistan and the rescue of Pvt. Jessica Lynch in Iraq, congressional officials said Tuesday.

AP - A judge Tuesday granted a family's request to keep their critically ill baby alive, ruling that the boy should not be removed from life-support equipment as the hospital had planned.

AP - The founder of the 'Girls Gone Wild' video empire surrendered to federal marshals early Tuesday to face a contempt of court citation after initially defying a federal judge.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell on Tuesday created a task force to determine how many state residents with subprime mortgages face foreclosure and what can be done to help them avoid losing their homes.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. gasoline supplies appear to be adequate to meet summer driving demand, U.S. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman said on Tuesday.

TORONTO (Reuters) - A couple, both former strippers, and their children are suing the National Basketball Association, the Milwaukee Bucks and three players for C$18 million ($15.7 million) following an incident outside a Toronto strip club four years ago.

AP - Rutgers women's basketball coach on Tuesday called the comments radio host Don Imus made about her team 'racist and sexist remarks that are deplorable, despicable and unconscionable.'

AP - A Naval Academy midshipman convicted of sexually assaulting a fellow student should spend two years in prison and be dismissed from the Navy, a military jury said Tuesday.

AP - In the two weeks before he committed suicide, Sherman Sizemore thought people were trying to bury him alive.

AP - A U.S. House committee announced Tuesday it would hold hearings on misleading military statements that followed the friendly fire death of Pat Tillman in Afghanistan and the rescue of Pfc. Jessica Lynch in Iraq.

AP - The investigation began with a university student slain in the Idaho town of Moscow. By week's end, authorities were unraveling the killing of a second young man, whose body was dumped in a Boise pond, and the wounding of a college student in Tucson, Ariz.

AP - Ohio's governor said Tuesday he is worried that National Guard troops who have been told to prepare for a possible deployment to Iraq won't have proper training and equipment.

AP - Time to catch up with your ogre friend Shrek, his greenish bride, Fiona, and their two men Friday, the yammering Donkey and the overreaching Puss in Boots.

AP - The founder of the 'Girls Gone Wild' video empire was taken into custody by federal marshals early Tuesday to face a contempt of court citation after initially defying a federal judge.

AP - A building blaze that killed three people and injured six last month began in a supply closet when a nurse used a lighter to set fire to a box, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (Reuters) - The Rutgers University women's basketball team slammed Don Imus on Tuesday but plans to meet with the U.S. radio personality suspended for two weeks for calling them 'nappy-headed hos.'

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Former NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak's trial on attempting kidnapping charges has been delayed until September, according to a Florida court order released on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Motorists can expect higher pump prices in the months ahead, but gasoline will cost less on average than last summer and supplies will be plentiful, the government said on Tuesday.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - U.S. border police found 1,000 wedding gowns stolen from a cancer charity and crammed into a truck trying to get into Mexico, federal authorities said on Tuesday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Phil Spector's ex-girlfriend can testify at his murder trial that the pioneering rock producer twice pointed guns at her head when she tried to leave his home, a judge ruled on Tuesday.

(Reuters) - Pet food maker Menu Foods said it has voluntarily recalled additional pet food made with wheat gluten supplied by ChemNutra Inc.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Private U.S. flights, usually involving small airplanes, are 82 times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash than major airlines, researchers said on Tuesday.

AP - Two former West Texas juvenile prison administrators were indicted Tuesday on allegations that they sexually abused teenage inmates, the most serious charges to emerge from the state's youth detention system scandal.

AP - With its ocean breezes, ample sunlight, pounding waves and a continuously erupting volcano, Hawaii seems blessed with the means to produce clean electricity and achieve energy independence.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Widener University and Capella University have placed financial aid officials on paid leave after New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office said they may have received improper payments from a student loan company.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Air traffic controllers should get more rest and step up safety vigilance, U.S. safety investigators said on Tuesday in recommendations prompted by a deadly Comair crash last year and other close calls.

AP - The former principal and assistant superintendent of a state juvenile prison were indicted Tuesday on charges that they sexually abused teenage inmates in their care.

AP - A police search of former astronaut Lisa Nowak's car turned up bondage photos on a computer disk, British currency and pills, according to documents released Tuesday by prosecutors.

AP - Defense attorneys for a preacher's wife accused of killing her husband questioned potential jurors Tuesday about whether they had ever been in abusive relationships and if they thought guns could accidentally discharge.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City produced 58 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2005, according to officials who promised on Tuesday to cut that by 30 percent by 2030 as the city tries to become a leader in the fight against global warming.

AP - A high school student passed a handgun to a classmate inside a Chicago classroom Tuesday when it accidentally discharged, striking both in the leg, police said.

AP - The investigation began with a university student slain in the Idaho town of Moscow. By week's end, authorities were unraveling the killing of a second young man, whose body was dumped in a Boise pond, and the wounding of a college student in Tucson, Ariz.

BOSTON (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, at the center of a 2002 scandal over pedophile priests, now complies with national child protection safety standards, an independent report said on Tuesday.

AP - The Rutgers women's basketball team blasted radio host Don Imus Tuesday for 'racist and sexist remarks that are deplorable, despicable and abominable' and agreed to meet with the embattled radio host.

AP - The three men indicted in the Duke lacrosse sexual assault case could learn this week whether state prosecutors plan to bring them to trial or drop the charges, a person close to the case said Tuesday.