AP - Georgette Fogarty-Clemons was heading home from her wedding Sunday evening, looking forward to relaxing with a few friends. Her friend was driving slowly because they had some leftover cake in the car, along with hydrangeas and lilies still in water.

AP - Scott Roeder's family life began unraveling more than a decade ago when he got involved with anti-government groups, and then became 'very religious in an Old Testament, eye-for-an-eye way,' his former wife said.

AP - To some he was an unflinching hero, to others a remorseless villain. As a late-term abortion doctor, George Tiller knew he had chosen a dangerous career, one that made him a lightning rod. His clinic was a fortress, his days marred by threats, but he refused to give up what he saw as his life's mission.

AP - Heather Thompson's blackened and bloodied face has served as a warning to battered women in North Carolina. On a billboard and in brochures, she tells them they can get help.

AP - The ex-wife of the man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller is scheduled to be back on the witness stand to answer questions from her former husband's lawyers.

AP - A court-appointed accountant has rejected a payment from a polygamous church sect whose properties were taken over by the courts because of alleged mismanagement by their former leader, Warren Jeffs.

AP - A Muslim man accused of killing a soldier in a 'political and religious' attack on a military recruiting center in Arkansas has pleaded not guilty to a capital murder charge.

AP - The Louisville Zoo planned to open as normal Tuesday while inspectors tried to figure out why a miniature train derailed and sent 22 people to hospitals.

AP - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is ready to urge lawmakers to deal quickly with California's enormous deficit.

AP - The two Americans on board a missing Air France plane were a geologist and his wife headed to Europe for work and vacation, a spokesman for his employer said Tuesday.

AP - Authorities in Missouri say the body of a 102-year-old builder and philanthropist has been found in a river more than two weeks after he reportedly jumped from a bridge.

AP - A miniature train that derailed and injured 22 people at the Louisville Zoo underwent daily inspections and passed a state examination in January, safety officials said Tuesday.

AP - The ex-wife of the man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller said she tried to leave her husband several times, but he became angry, threatened her and told her she would lose custody of their daughter.

AP - A Washington state man has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for having sex with his two dogs.

AP - An attorney for a federal judge about to go to prison for lying in a sex crimes case says the jurist has submitted his letter of resignation to President Barack Obama.

AP - It has the makings of a telenovela: A handsome Cuban-American priest and TV personality caught cavorting with his girlfriend on a Florida beach. After much soul-searching, he decides to leave the Catholic Church for his love.

AP - One of the nation's oldest prep schools on Tuesday disputed a lawsuit brought by a former basketball coach who claims he was forced to quit after complaining that the school told him he was recruiting too many blacks.

AP - The South Carolina funeral board has revoked the licenses of a funeral home and its director for cutting the legs of a 6-foot-7 man so his corpse would fit in a casket.

AP - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has told a joint session of the Legislature that California's budget crisis will require a transformation in state government.

AP - The state of Wyoming has filed suit challenging the federal government's recent decision to leave gray wolves on the endangered species list in the state while delisting them elsewhere.

AP - Arkansas authorities say they have arrested three people suspected of leaving a car for two convicted killers who escaped from prison by putting on guard uniforms that are made at the facility.

AP - A judge has found a suspended Chicago police officer guilty of aggravated battery in the videotaped beating of a female bartender.

AP - Many states that are cutting spending on schools, roads and other basics have been lavishing hundreds of millions of dollars in incentives on Hollywood studios to lure TV and movie productions — this, despite scant evidence that taxpayers come out ahead on such deals.

AP - On the eve of the 65th anniversary of D-Day, the foundation that runs the National D-Day Memorial is on the brink of financial ruin.

AP - An Arkansas corrections official says two convicted murderers who escaped wearing guard uniforms made at a high-security prison have been captured in New York state.

AP - New Orleans is once again the nation's murder capital after briefly losing the title.

AP - Ohio state troopers — who face extra poundage for sitting long hours in patrol cars — are fighting back at a state rule that allows dismissal for those who consistently exceed weight limits.

AP - A house fire in a Chicago suburb has killed a woman and her son and injured three other family members.

AP - A federal judge in Wisconsin has decided to allow a public school district to hold its graduation ceremonies in a church.

AP - A Christmas prank in a small Kentucky town has netted jail time for two young men who stole the baby Jesus.

AP - A member of a Colombian paramilitary group has been sentenced in a Texas federal court to 7 1/2 years for plotting to acquire anti-aircraft missiles and other powerful weapons in exchange for cocaine.

AP - At work, Sandra Boss was a dynamic, Harvard-educated executive who made $2 million a year and advised companies on complex business strategies. But at home, she was a 'stupid' wife who believed her husband's fantastic lies about his past and allowed him to control almost every aspect of her life, she testified Tuesday at her ex-husband's kidnapping trial.

AP - A man who led authorities to two bodies with a package of handwritten notes and a two-hour audiotape killed himself Tuesday as deputies knocked on his motel room door to arrest him on murder and arson charges.

AP - NCR Corp., the world's leading provider of ATMs, announced Tuesday that it is trading in the Rust Belt for the Sun Belt, relocating its corporate headquarters from Dayton, Ohio, to suburban Atlanta.

AP - A pair of federal judges will decide which states in the Northern Rockies have enough gray wolves to allow public hunting, as the bitter debate over the region's wolves heads to courts in Wyoming and Montana.

AP - Prosecutors in Boston have dropped 14 vandalism charges against the street artist who created the 'Hope' poster of President Barack Obama.

AP - A pair of convicted murderers were captured in New York state Tuesday after a 20-mile chase in the same car they used to flee from an Arkansas prison last week while wearing guard uniforms.

AP - A bankruptcy judge approved a sale of the Yellowstone Club for the bargain of $115 million Tuesday, letting the exclusive Montana resort emerge from bankruptcy that developed after its owners diverted hundreds of millions of dollars for their own use.

AP - Calling it a 'mistake' and not in the spirit or intent of the economic recovery legislation they supported, New York's U.S. senators have asked the Army Corps of Engineers to stop a $120,000 federal stimulus project for Onondaga Lake because it won't create new jobs or infrastructure.

AP - The U.S. Supreme Court has denied appeals by an Ohio inmate scheduled to be executed Wednesday for locking a woman in a car trunk and burning her alive.

AP - A teenager in suburban Detroit has apologized for lighting a man's pants on fire and causing a third-degree burn to the man's groin. Eighteen-year-old Tyler Quick spoke Tuesday before the judge sentenced him to probation. He pleaded guilty last month to assault with intent to commit great bodily harm less than murder.

AP - A Muslim convert who pleaded not guilty to killing a soldier outside a recruiting center had the firepower to take out many more while on a mission to 'kill as many people in the Army as he could,' police said.

AP - Arizona is ending its use of outdoor prison cells permanently after an inmate died in triple-digit heat last month, the corrections department said Tuesday.

AP - A mother was indicted on charges of murder and attempted murder Tuesday after her two children plunged from a bridge into a frigid Oregon river.

AP - Physician LeRoy Carhart wants to continue providing third-term abortions after the brazen slaying of his friend and colleague George Tiller, but the Nebraska doctor doesn't have anywhere to perform them — and he's one of only a handful of providers who will.

AP - Susan B. Jordan, an activist lawyer who represented high-profile clients such as Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson, has been killed in a plane crash in southern Utah, authorities said.