AP - The first openly gay Episcopal bishop will offer a prayer at the Lincoln Memorial at an inaugural event for President-elect Barack Obama.

AP - Gov. Jon S. Corzine has won a round in his fight to keep his e-mails private.

AP - Authorities say a freight train has derailed in northwest Ohio, sparking a small fire and raising concerns about a hazardous chemical contained in tanker cars.

AP - For nearly a decade, Kathleen Hilton has been in jail, though she's been convicted of nothing.

AP - Sen. George Voinovich said Monday he won't seek re-election in 2010, becoming the fourth Republican to make departure plans since the Democratic landslide in November.

AP - A judge Monday rejected the defense that a teenage boy opened fire on his family because he was addicted to video games, convicting him of wounding his clergyman father and killing his mother after they fought over a video game.

AP - Authorities say they are no longer concerned about hazardous chemicals in tanker cars that derailed in northwest Ohio.

AP - Sen. George Voinovich said Monday he won't seek re-election in 2010, becoming the fourth Republican to make departure plans since the Democratic landslide in November.

AP - A new lawsuit claims Catholic bishops are wrongly imposing their beliefs on victims of human trafficking by not letting federal grant money be used for emergency contraception, condoms or abortions.

AP - Almost three decades ago, a pregnant Merlin Pena landed in Boston with her husband and two children after escaping El Salvador's bloody civil war.

AP - Mike Reilly spent his lifetime chasing the California dream. This year he's going to look for it in Colorado.

AP - The nation's largest public utility said Monday tests showed slightly elevated levels of contaminants in the Tennessee River downstream from an Alabama coal-waste spill, but the samples still met federal standards for safe drinking water.

AP - Retired Lt. Gen. Harry W.O. Kinnard, a paratroop officer who suggested the famously defiant answer 'Nuts!' to a German demand for surrender during the 1944 Battle of the Bulge, has died. He was 93.

AP - Democrat Al Franken was quickly turned down Monday when he asked Minnesota's governor and secretary of state to issue an election certificate that would let him take office in the Senate.

AP - A fast-moving blizzard brought snow and high winds to North Dakota Monday, closing schools and causing more headaches for residents still trying to dig out from a record snowfall last month.

AP - An Ogden police officer hailed for helping to end a deadly Salt Lake City mall shooting nearly two years ago has resigned amid allegations of sexual misconduct with a minor.

AP - The first openly gay Episcopal bishop will say a prayer at the Lincoln Memorial for one of President-elect Barack Obama's first inauguration events.

AP - Gov. David Paterson's secretive process to select Hillary Rodham Clinton's successor in the U.S. Senate conflicts with his campaign promises to open up government, and New York's top regulator of open government laws says it appears to violate state law.

AP - A former state lawmaker and one of two foster daughters he was convicted of raping under the ruse of harvesting their eggs have settled a federal lawsuit.

AP - For 20 years, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale's enrollment numbers have languished, proving so vexing it cost a top campus administrator his job in 2006.

AP - The salmonella bacteria that has sickened nearly 400 people in Minnesota and 41 other states has been conclusively linked to peanut butter, Minnesota health officials announced Monday.

AP - E-mails between New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine and his labor leader ex-girlfriend can remain private, an appeals court ruled Monday.

AP - One of five men convicted last month of conspiring to kill U.S. soldiers proclaims that he and the others are innocent in a letter he sent to the judge who oversaw their trial.

AP - An Indiana businessman whose financial management companies were under investigation apparently bailed out of his small plane and let it crash in what may have been an elaborate attempt to fake his own death.

AP - Although a teenager's obsession with a violent video game may have warped his sense of reality, the boy is guilty of murdering his mother and wounding his father after they took 'Halo 3' away from him, a judge ruled Monday.

AP - The salmonella bacteria that has sickened more than 400 people in 43 states has been conclusively linked to peanut butter, Minnesota health officials announced Monday. Federal officials said the outbreak may have contributed to three deaths.

AP - Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich raised at least $80,000 from firms with state road contracts last summer and fall — including $10,000 the day after the governor announced a $1.8 billion tollway project mentioned in criminal charges against him, records show.

AP - In May, 'Slumdog Millionaire' appeared headed for that shameful scrap heap of movies: a direct-to-video release.

AP - An Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed Monday in a field on the campus of Texas A&M University, killing one person and injuring four others aboard.

AP - Mike Reilly spent his lifetime chasing the California dream. This year he's going to look for it in Colorado.

AP - The three-month-long federal corruption trial of a once-powerful former legislator screeched to a halt Monday when prosecutors announced that a key government witness has been e-mailing the defendant and posting blog notes about the case under pseudonyms.

AP - Gov. David Paterson's secretive process to select Hillary Rodham Clinton's successor in the U.S. Senate conflicts with his campaign promises to open up government, and New York's top regulator of open government laws says it appears to violate state law.

AP - Wisconsin has appealed $225,000 in damages that it was ordered to pay a blind businesswoman for failing to supervise her work under a government program promoting employment for the blind.

AP - Environmentalists sued the federal government Monday over new rules that critics say do too little to prevent cargo ships from dumping invasive species into the nation's waterways.

AP - The Department of Homeland Security has approved a site at Kansas State University for a $450 million lab to study livestock diseases and some of the world's most dangerous biological threats.

AP - An Indiana businessman whose financial management companies were under investigation apparently made a fake distress call, bailed out of his small plane and then let it crash in a Florida panhandle swamp.

AP - The first Boston Fire ladder truck to undergo mandatory inspections in the wake of a crash that killed a firefighter last week had a problem with its brakes and was taken out of service Monday.