AP - A man is headed to trial for allegedly gunning down a family in their rural Texas farmhouse within hours of killing two people in Missouri.

AP - A 10-year-old New Mexico boy is facing a murder charge in the shooting death of his father.

AP - In the 18 years that Jaycee Lee Dugard allegedly spent captive in Phillip Garrido's backyard, shielded from the world by trees, tarps, tents and tool sheds, she no doubt had a chance or two to tell someone the truth.

AP - Fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander will learn what his sentence will be for sexually assaulting aspiring models he lured to Los Angeles, only to be turned around and sent to New York where he faces similar charges.

AP - Sixteen years after seven employees were killed inside a suburban Chicago fast food restaurant, their families are bracing to hear details of the deaths — for the second time in only two years — as the last suspect goes on trial.

AP - Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson underwent 10 hours of surgery to repair a heart disorder and is back in Virginia recovering, a spokesman said Monday.

AP - Three Texas fishermen who spent eight days stranded in the Gulf of Mexico atop their capsized boat endured hunger, blistering heat, scares from sharks and hallucinations, but they never gave up hope they'd be rescued.

AP - In the 18 years that Jaycee Lee Dugard allegedly spent captive in Phillip Garrido's backyard, shielded from the world by trees, tarps, tents and tool sheds, she no doubt had a chance or two to tell someone the truth.

AP - The son of the pastor who was brutally killed inside her Oklahoma church says her funeral will be another chance for his mother to spread the word of God.

AP - A massive fire in the Angeles National Forest nearly doubled in size overnight, threatening 12,000 homes Monday in a 20-mile-long swath of flame and smoke and surging toward a mountaintop broadcasting complex and historic observatory.

AP - A federal appeals court on Monday dealt another body blow to Delaware's plans for a new sports betting lottery, saying it must be limited to parlay bets on professional football games.

AP - A man accused in a scheme to illegally ship nearly $300 million in Chinese-made ammunition to the Afghan military has agreed to a plea deal that recommends he serve just two years of probation.

AP - Renegade ex-congressman James A. Traficant Jr., who delighted in 'Star Trek' references and polyester suits, is to be released Wednesday from a federal prison in Minnesota after serving seven years for corruption.

AP - Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says in a new book that White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel wanted his help in arranging to leave the Obama administration after two years to reclaim his seat in Congress.

AP - Sir John Herschel made important contributions to the nascent field of photography more than a century and a half ago, inventing a chemical process that allowed an image to be fixed onto photosensitive paper.

AP - A federal appeals court on Monday dealt another body blow to Delaware's plans for a new sports betting lottery, saying it must be limited to parlay bets on professional football games.

AP - Police resumed their search Monday for possible links to unsolved crimes at the home of the Northern California sex offender charged with kidnapping a little girl and hiding her in his backyard for 18 years.

AP - A custom-designed racecar bearing the phrase 'Always Remember' was unveiled Monday by NASCAR's Benny Gordon across from the World Trade Center site.

AP - A Texas judge has delayed the trial of a Missouri man charged with murdering a pregnant woman, her husband and her son at a Texas Panhandle farmhouse in 2005.

AP - Fire officials say a massive wildfire that cost two firefighters their lives also critically burned three people in the foothills northeast of Los Angeles.

AP - Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says the government will pay $9.5 million to acquire land so the Flight 93 National Memorial can be built by the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

AP - The city that became a post-civil rights movement emblem of the political power held by African-Americans could have a white mayor for the first time in a generation — a possibility that has some in the black community scrambling to hold on to City Hall.

AP - Americans, you might want to check on their sweaters and shovels — the Farmers' Almanac is predicting a cold winter for many of you.

AP - Yoshio Matsumoto was among the 110,000 Japanese-Americans seemingly bound for an internment camp soon after America entered World War II when a university he knew nothing about from a far off part of the country agreed to take him in.

AP - Authorities say they are charging a North Carolina woman who slept as a pit bull chewed the toes off her 4-month-old baby's left foot.

AP - A man charged with killing seven people during a robbery at a suburban Chicago fast food restaurant 16 years ago did it because he 'wanted to do something big,' not because he needed the money, a prosecutor told jurors Monday.

AP - Federal agents say they've recovered more than 20,000 pieces of mail from a suburban Detroit postal carrier who stored them in his car, kitchen and garage instead of delivering them.

AP - An attorney for a teenager who says she ran away from home because she feared for her safety after she converted to Christianity from Islam claimed in court documents Monday that her family's mosque in Ohio has terrorist ties — a charge disputed by the Islamic center's leader.

AP - Crying on his front porch, an 88-year-old Michigan man targeted for deportation firmly denied shooting anyone when he was a member of a Nazi-controlled police force during World War II.

AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday toured the remains of a Northern California neighborhood leveled by a quickly moving grass fire over the weekend, marveling at the extent of the devastation and consoling a sobbing resident whose home burned to the ground.

AP - The astronauts aboard the linked shuttle and station are moving a giant chest of drawers from one spacecraft to the other.

AP - A judge has ordered a halt to work being done outside a northern New Jersey mansion where Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi (MOO'-ah-mahr gah-DAH'-fee) wanted to stay during his first U.S. visit.

AP - As many as 1,000 people packed a church Monday for a nearly three-hour service to celebrate the life of a pastor who was found slain inside her church in southwest Oklahoma and to remember her as a sweet, loving woman of God.

AP - Virginia's Republican candidate for governor said Monday he no longer believes his argument in a graduate thesis written 20 years ago that discrimination against gays and other groups is acceptable for the benefit of straight, married couples.

AP - Mayor Eddie Perez, already scheduled to go on trial on bribery charges, said Monday a state judge had signed a new arrest warrant accusing him of wrongdoing involving a former state lawmaker.

AP - Mount Wilson opened the heavens and then became a modern hub for communications on Earth. Now it is threatened by a force of nature that humans may be powerless to control.

AP - The air quality turned hazardous, a brownish mushroom cloud billowed in the distance, and a gauze of gray smoke draped the Hollywood sign.

AP - ESPN reporter Erin Andrews said in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that having secretly videotaped nude footage of her distributed on the Internet was a 'nightmare.'

AP - A wire-haired dachshund that held the record as the world's oldest dog has died on Long Island at age 21 — or 147 in dog years.

AP - As the roaring wall of flame raged through the Angeles National Forest, firefighters Ted Hall and Arnie Quinones worked feverishly to protect their fire-crew camp, made up mostly of prison inmates.