SYDNEY (Reuters) - Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone has provided medical documents to Australia's customs after being charged with importing 48 vials of banned human growth hormone, his lawyer told a Sydney court on Tuesday.

AP - A former state lawmaker and prominent attorney was found hypothermic but conscious on an island Monday, a day after his boat was discovered cruising unmanned in a Juneau bay.

AP - Law enforcers fatally shot a 13-year-old boy after he fired a gun at them on a state highway, authorities said Monday.

AP - Five years before the massacre at Virginia Tech, a deeply disturbed student went on a murderous rampage at the Appalachian School of Law, killing three and wounding three others.

AP - The to-do list for the next mayor of Philadelphia is a daunting one: slow a surging homicide rate and change the pay-to-play culture in City Hall.

AP - The nine U.S. soldiers killed when a truck bomb exploded next to their patrol base in Iraq were all paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division, the division said Tuesday. Twenty of their colleagues were wounded in the attack.

AP - Hands swollen from where they had ripped off their duct tape bonds, two teen girls told police a harrowing tale last year: A man they knew had kidnapped them and raped them in an underground bunker near their mobile home.

AP - As U.S. beef exports to Japan remain in flux, pork exports continue at a steady clip despite producers' fears that new import standards could give Japan an excuse to reject pork shipments.

AP - A 4-year-old boy who was inadvertently blitzed by a college football player during a game has 30 stitches in his head, but he's recovering well, his father said Tuesday.

AP - An ammonia leak at an agriculture plant left this small town mostly empty Tuesday morning after hundreds of residents were ordered to evacuate and at least 10 people became sick from the fumes, authorities said.

AP - A 4-year-old boy tackled by a college football player as he played along the sidelines during a game has 30 stitches in his head, but he's recovering well, his father said Tuesday.

AP - An elementary school was evacuated Tuesday after a fourth-grader brought what appeared to be a grenade to school.

AP - On Virginia Tech's first day of classes since last week's shootings, Joe Merola just wanted to give his students a lecture on an equation explaining the voltage in batteries.

AP - The Coast Guard began unloading more than 40,000 pounds of cocaine seized from three ships off the Central American coast, much of it from a single bust considered the largest in U.S. maritime history.

AP - The to-do list for the next mayor is a daunting one: slow a surging homicide rate and change the pay-to-play culture in City Hall.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday agreed to consider a California request to limit greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, a plan that has been on hold for more than a year.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Skybus Airlines Inc., a new U.S. budget carrier, on Tuesday said it will start flying on May 22 with $10 one-way tickets available on all flights.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - A convicted murderer who stopped appealing his death sentence but then changed his mind and went to court five days ago was executed in Ohio on Tuesday after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to step in.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sometimes strained ties between China and the United States gave way Tuesday to a new detente: the playful giant panda cub born at the National Zoo will be allowed to stay in Washington two more years.

AP - Virginia's governor said Tuesday he may be able to close the loophole that allowed Seung-Hui Cho to buy the guns he used to kill 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus.

AP - Fire broke out on the roof of the city's vacant former post office Tuesday where a movie crew had been filming scenes for an upcoming 'Batman' sequel.

AP - The brother of a pilot whose hijacked airplane was flown into the World Trade Center in 2001 announced Tuesday he is running for Congress.

AP - An elementary school was evacuated for more than an hour Tuesday morning after a fourth-grader showed up with a hand grenade, authorities said.

AP - A man who tried to challenge Ohio's lethal injection method was executed Tuesday for his ex-wife's shooting death 13 years ago.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said on Tuesday that it will contract with local hospitals and other organizations to open as many as 400 in-store health clinics in the next two to three years.

AP - A storm system piled more than a foot of snow on the Colorado foothills on Tuesday and hit the Plains with heavy rain, hail and violent thunderstorms.

AP - Last year, popular Spanish-language disc jockey Eduardo 'Piolin' Sotelo was hailed for helping to persuade hundreds of thousands of people to join protests demanding amnesty for illegal immigrants.

AP - New Jersey's hospitalized governor has been getting more than the usual wishes for a speedy recovery from his highway crash. He's been getting lectures too: Slow down, and buckle up!

AP - Four men pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that they plotted to recruit and train terrorists to attack U.S. and allied troops overseas.

AP - Residents were allowed back into town on Tuesday more than 12 hours after a mandatory evacuation was ordered because of an ammonia leak at an agriculture plant.

AP - Chinese officials on Tuesday granted Tai Shan, the National Zoo's popular giant panda cub, an extra two years at the Smithsonian Institution park with his parents.

AP - The bullet scars are faintly visible on the University of Texas clock tower that served as a sniper's nest more than 40 years ago. Kent State University students still field questions from strangers about the four people slain there by National Guard troops in 1970.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said on Tuesday that it will contract with local hospitals and other organizations to open as many as 400 in-store health clinics in the next two to three years.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday that 'thousands' of U.S. hogs might be affected by the agency's investigation of livestock feed contaminated with melamine.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Outdated U.S. policies are keeping many disabled Americans from getting help they need, an expert panel said on Tuesday in a report faulting government inaction toward the needs of this growing population.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran TV host Regis Philbin will return to his morning talk show on Thursday, six weeks after heart surgery, and his good pal from late-night television, David Letterman, will help welcome him back.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Borrowing a line from 'Gone With the Wind,' film critic Roger Ebert is telling the paparazzi to take all the pictures they want when he appears in public after surgery that has left him temporarily disfigured.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Prisoners staged a disturbance at a medium security prison in eastern Indiana on Tuesday, officials said, but there were no immediate reports of serious injuries.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Education Department on Tuesday launched a task force to examine inducements paid by student lenders to college officials, following weeks of growing state and congressional pressure.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A coalition of religious leaders took on the Catholic Church, the U.S. Supreme Court and the Bush administration on Tuesday with a plea to take religion out of health care in the United States.

AP - Commuters in the Twin Cities have been rattled by a series of attacks on buses in recent weeks, including two killings, and police have stepped up patrols of mass transit to safeguard worried passengers. Transit officials insist the three violent crimes since early March were isolated problems.

AP - An owner of an exotic animal farm has died after being kicked and then sat on by a camel. Cathie Ake and the 4-year-old camel were being filmed by a local television station on Sunday when the camel kicked her and then sat down during a break in filming.

AP - Several hundred residents returned home Tuesday after a chemical leak at an agriculture plant sickened at least 10 people and prompted evacuations in three small northern Illinois towns, authorities said.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Independent board members at the company run by fallen media tycoon Conrad Black were unaware that executives including Black would benefit financially from newspaper sales the board approved, a former company director told jurors at Black's fraud trial on Tuesday.

AP - More than a week after Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people during an early morning rampage at Virginia Tech, investigators have yet to find a motive, despite examining his computers, e-mail and cell phone records.

AP - Mayor Frank Melton and two police bodyguards used sticks and sledgehammers to destroy a duplex the mayor considered a 'crack house,' witnesses testified Tuesday on the opening day of the trial.

AP - Ted Besen bristles when politicians suggest that armed classmates could have stopped Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho.

AP - A wildfire fueled by dense, dry trees and brush spread rapidly through a swamp Tuesday, and firefighters tried to contain it before it could spread to nearby homes.

AP - Religion has no place in post offices run by churches and other private contractors, a federal judge has ruled, citing the constitutional separation of church and state.