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Country's Carrie Underwood scores in video awards
 
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - A revenge-themed song by 'American Idol' winner Carrie Underwood scored a double video win on Monday in the 2007 Country Music Television Awards.
Colleges seek to get word out quicker
 
AP - The first 911 calls came in at about 7:15 a.m. But it took officials on the Virginia Tech campus more than two hours to send out an e-mail alert telling students that a shooting had occurred and to 'be cautious.'
U.S. warns citizens against flying Indonesian airlines
 
JAKARTA (Reuters) - The United States has advised its citizens not to fly Indonesian airlines, saying recent accidents raise questions about the country's aviation safety.
Pulitzers scattered among news outlets
 
AP - With no single event dominating front pages in the manner of Hurricane Katrina or Sept. 11, the Pulitzer Prizes were scattered among 13 news organizations on a variety of subjects, and a jazz composition won in the music category for the first time.
RFK Jr. to testify in Skakel appeal
 
AP - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long maintained his cousin's innocence in the 1975 death of a teenage girl. Now, he plans to testify on his behalf as Michael Skakel seeks a new murder trial.
Slain preacher's daughter testifies
 
AP - Prosecutors rested their case against a preacher's wife accused of murdering her husband with the heartbreaking testimony of the couple's 9-year-old daughter.
Names of victims at Virginia Tech
 
AP - A list of some of the victims of the shootings at Virginia Tech:
Mitch Landrieu declines La. governor bid
 
AP - Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu became the latest Democrat to announce he would not run for governor against the front-runner, Republican U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal.
Stone-throwing fracas mars Madonna's Malawi visit
 
MCHINJI, Malawi (Reuters) - Malawi police and stone-throwing school students blocked journalists from covering pop star Madonna's visit to an orphanage on Tuesday where the boy she is adopting was due to meet his biological father.
Santa Fe River is most endangered in U.S.: report
 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Santa Fe River is the most endangered in the United States, suffering from a lack of water so severe that it exists as a dry, weed-choked ditch most of the year, an environmental group reported on Tuesday.
Ford not ruling out sale, partnership: magazine
 
DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co has not ruled out an eventual sale or partnership as the automaker cuts jobs and closes plants in an effort to recover from billions of dollars in losses, Ford's executive chairman told a magazine in an article published on Tuesday.
Astronaut Aldrin plans space travel lottery
 
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, announced plans on Tuesday for a lottery which would send its winner into space in a bid to spread the dream of extraterrestrial travel beyond the super-wealthy.
Montana man who posed as private eye gets prison
 
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Montana man who admitted to posing as a private eye to sell information he did not have in high-profile corporate litigation cases was sentenced to 37 months in prison and ordered to pay $307,103 in restitution.
New charges in Missouri boys' abductions
 
AP - Prosecutors filed seven additional charges, including attempted murder, against a former pizzeria manager accused of kidnapping two boys and holding one for four years.
RFK Jr. testifies in Skakel appeal
 
AP - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified Tuesday that he wasn't always close to his cousin Michael Skakel, but he said he felt obligated to come forward with a man's claim that implicates other people in the bludgeoning death that sent Skakel to prison.
Next for Corzine: Breathing on his own
 
AP - Injured New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine remained in critical but stable condition Tuesday as doctors assessed when he might be ready to breathe without a ventilator.
Man sent to prison for bilking law firms
 
AP - A Montana man who called himself a private investigator was sentenced to more than 2 years in prison Tuesday for bilking a dozen U.S. law offices, including a firm once used by former AIG chairman Maurice R. Greenberg.
List of deadly campus shootings
 
AP - Fatal shootings at U.S. colleges or universities in recent years.
Prosecutors tie payments to Conrad Black's company
 
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The first of what became a series of payments growing into the alleged $60 million fraud Conrad Black and his associates are charged with was mapped out at the Canadian company that the failed media mogul controlled, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
FCC says no authority to act on Imus comments
 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission does not have the authority to fine or take other action about fired radio host Don Imus' racist comments, the agency head told U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday.
Fracas mars Madonna's Malawi visit
 
MCHINJI, Malawi (Reuters) - Schoolchildren pelted reporters' cars with stones to keep them away from Madonna on Tuesday as the pop star visited the orphanage where the Malawian boy she is adopting once lived.
Super-rich population surges in 2006: survey
 
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of U.S. households with a net worth of more than $5 million, excluding their primary residence, surged 23 percent to surpass one million for the first time in 2006, according to a survey released on Tuesday.
Murder charge dropped against 1 Marine
 
AP - The Marine Corps said Tuesday it had dropped all charges against a Marine accused of murdering civilians in Haditha, Iraq, and had given him testimonial immunity.
2 teens charged in playground acid spill
 
AP - Two teenagers were charged with breaking into a school and pouring an acidic drain cleaner on playground equipment that later burned a 2-year-old boy on a slide, Baltimore County police said Tuesday.
Suspect in CNN complex shooting indicted
 
AP - An ex-con who spent four years in prison for a fatal robbery was indicted Tuesday on murder charges in the fatal shooting two weeks ago at the CNN headquarters complex.
6 indicted in juvenile offender's death
 
AP - A grand jury indicted six former staff members at a school for juvenile offenders on charges of reckless endangerment in the death of a 17-year-old student, officials announced Tuesday.
Witness: Wife changed around late pastor
 
AP - Attorneys for a preacher's wife on trial in her husband's killing began calling witnesses Tuesday to try to show that the minister was an abusive and angry man.
UM sued over stadium wheelchair seating
 
AP - A disabled veterans group sued the University of Michigan on Tuesday, saying there aren't enough spaces for wheelchair users at Michigan Stadium, one of the largest football stadiums in the country.
Glider pilot found injured after crash
 
AP - A glider pilot who crashed in rough weather was found Tuesday on a remote mountain ridge more than 24 hours later and was taken to a hospital, authorities said.
U.S. state officials discuss student loan probe
 
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's investigation into student lending practices may gain broader, nationwide support as officials from 40 states joined in a conference call on Tuesday to address the widening scandal.
Threats rattle schools in 7 states
 
AP - Campus threats forced lock-downs and evacuations at universities and grade schools in seven states on Tuesday, a day after a Virginia Tech student's shooting rampage killed 33 people.
LA mayor struggles with big agenda
 
AP - His thousand-watt smile turned into a thousand-mile stare when Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa learned that Los Angeles lost its chance to host the 2016 Olympics. The episode could be a metaphor for an administration endeavoring to fulfill its promise.
Defense paints slain pastor as abusive
 
AP - Attorneys for a preacher's wife on trial in her husband's killing began calling witnesses Tuesday to try to show that the minister was an abusive, controlling and angry man.
Another student aid officer quits advisory post
 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Another student financial aid officer from a major university has resigned from a federal advisory panel amid a widening scandal involving student loans, the U.S. Department of Education said on Tuesday.
Doctor says preacher's wife claims abuse
 
AP - A preacher's wife accused of murdering her husband told a psychologist that he often threatened her with a shotgun and forced her to have sex, the psychologist testified Tuesday.
Menu Foods adds to pet food recall list
 
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Pet food maker Menu Foods said on Tuesday it added one additional dog food product to its recall list and two more production dates of eight varieties of tainted pet food.
Cleanup begins after deadly nor'easter
 
AP - As the floodwaters receded Tuesday homeowners picked through ruined belongings and priceless keepsakes trying to determine what they'd lost.
Robert Kennedy Jr. testifies for cousin
 
AP - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took center stage Tuesday as his convicted cousin sought a new trial for a 1975 murder, describing how he did his own sleuthing when he learned of an account implicating two other men.
S.C. rape suspect brags about dungeon
 
AP - A convicted sex offender bragged to the court Tuesday about building a dungeon-like space beneath his home, where prosecutors said he bound two teen girls with duct tape, raped them and left the pair to die.

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