AP - Police said a man who waved a pair of Samurai swords on the grounds of a Hollywood Scientology building had a 'previous relationship' to the church, but released little other information about the man shot and killed by a security guard.

AP - The 8-year-old Arizona boy accused of fatally shooting his father and another man is a 'good little boy' who loved his dad, his mother said Monday.

AP - Authorities in Cincinnati say three children have died in a house fire.

AP - A second victim of a weekend church shooting died Monday, leaving one survivor who was in extremely critical condition, authorities said. The estranged wife of the alleged gunman, who remained at large, also died in the attack.

AP - A federal appeals panel has upheld the convictions of three men in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.

AP - When Danielle Nitzel found her three-year-old marriage drawing its last breath in 2004, she couldn't afford the minimum of $1,000 she was told she would need to hire a divorce lawyer.

AP - Jurors have reached a verdict in the second trial of a Muslim charity accused of helping to finance terrorism in the nation's largest such case since the Sept. 11 attacks.

AP - One man showed up at a federal building, asking for release from the reality show he was sure was being made of his life.

AP - An appeal notice filed on behalf of a convicted murderer who tortured two young siblings was dismissed Monday by a federal judge, after the defendant told him he did not want to challenge his convictions or death sentences and had not given his attorneys permission to do so.

AP - A prominent Hollywood attorney was sentenced Monday to three years in prison in a wiretapping scheme that targeted the former wife of MGM mogul Kirk Kerkorian.

AP - Three children, all under the age of 10, were killed when a fire swept through their house early Monday, fire officials said.

AP - The four-unit shotgun house that Sandra Marshall bought after decades of double shifts has sat untouched since the flooding of Hurricane Katrina, while nearly $850 million in federal aid for her and thousands of other mom-and-pop landlords sits on a bureaucratic shelf.

AP - Joseph M. Pallipurath went halfway around the world to India to find a wife last year. Now the California man is accused of going across the country to New Jersey to kill her.

AP - The defense in the MySpace hoax trial rested Monday without calling a Missouri mother to testify on her own behalf, instead relying on her tearful daughter to direct blame elsewhere for an Internet ruse that allegedly led to a teenage girl's suicide.

AP - The government's plan to bail out Citigroup sent Wall Street soaring Monday for the second straight session as investors hoped that the worst of the financial industry's problems might finally be over. The Dow Jones industrials surged nearly 400 points, and all the major indexes jumped more than 4.5 percent.

AP - An elder of a polygamous sect and two other church members surrendered to authorities Monday to face felony charges relating to the marriage of underage girls to older men.

AP - A crash involving three school buses has injured 15 to 20 people in southeastern Arkansas.

AP - A federal jury was given the case Monday of a Missouri mother accused of conspiring with her daughter and an assistant to harass a 13-year-old girl on the Internet, allegedly precipitating the teen's suicide.

AP - A federal appeals court established a legal precedent Monday that U.S. citizens overseas can face searches without a warrant, ruling that three Osama bin Laden followers convicted in the deadly 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies received fair trials.

AP - The second Detroit mayor in a row is facing questions about possible perjury.