Smoky dangers
Smoke obscures the Ft. Lauderdale skyline on Monday, as South Florida residents were warned to stay indoors as smoke from a massive wildfire in Everglades National Park billowed their way.
Phishing bust
Thirty-eight people were charged Monday with stealing names, Social Security numbers, credit card data and other personal information from unsuspecting Internet users as part of a global crime ring based in Romania, officials said.
Kennedy tests
President Bush was among those calling Sen. Edward Kennedy on Monday as the Massachusetts Democrat underwent more tests in Boston to determine the cause of a seizure that left him hospitalized.
Mother charged
A widowed mother has been indicted on charges of killing her two children in bed before taking a University of Louisville counselor hostage at gunpoint in March, authorities said Monday.
Prison deaths
State officials say a riot at a state prison in Granite, Okla., has left at least two prisoners dead and 13 injured. Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper Betsy Randolph says 15 people were stabbed Monday at the medium-security facility.
Officers punished
Philadelphia’s police commissioner said Monday that four officers will be fired and four others disciplined for their roles in the beatings of three shooting suspects, an encounter that was captured on videotape, drawing widespread outrage.
AND FINALLY …
– Fire in N.Y. apartment complex kills family of 4 – 3 charged for burying homeless woman on California beach – Pit bulls apparently kill 7-year-old on Texas road – Firefighter dead, ex-cop arrested in Rhode Island shooting – Family of boy who suffered brain damage in baseball game sues bat’s maker
SAN ANGELO, Texas: Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints follow a group of attorneys Monday into the Tom Green County Courthouse. The parents of more than 400 children taken from a polygamist sect’s ranch began laying out their cases as they attempted to regain custody.
