DETROIT Prosecutors are preparing to make their opening statements in the trial of seven members of a Midwest militia accused of plotting to overthrow the government.

RALEIGH, N.C. The North Carolina Supreme Court is hearing arguments over whether school officials should be allowed to search students' bras for drugs.

NEW DELHI Assailants targeted Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia in near-simultaneous strikes Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed on archenemy Iran, and its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah. Iran denied responsibility for the attacks.

EAST HAVEN, Conn. The mayor of a town embroiled by allegations of Latino bias by police on Monday announced the appointment of an interim police chief to lead a department tainted by charges of false arrests and other forms of harassment.

WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is proposing an increase in taxes on wealthy individuals and some corporations, putting him at odds with all the Republican presidential hopefuls.

CRANSTON, R.I. The winning ticket in Saturday's $336.4 million Powerball jackpot was sold at a Stop & Shop supermarket in Newport, but no one has come forward yet to claim the prize, Rhode Island lottery officials said Monday.

DECATUR, Ga. The victim was a Harvard-educated businessman who was shot to death minutes after he dropped his son off at a suburban Atlanta day care center. The alleged killer was a successful engineer and father of three who lived in an affluent subdivision.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. An Alabama man was in court Monday to stand trial for the death of his newlywed bride during a honeymoon diving trip in Australia.

SPOKANE, Wash. Authorities in Washington say the vehicle of a Spokane woman killed with her two young sons has been found, but the main suspect's still on the loose and is believed to be armed with stolen handguns and rifles.

CRANSTON, R.I. Rhode Island Lottery officials say the winning ticket in Saturday's $336.4 million Powerball jackpot was sold at a Stop & Shop supermarket in Newport.

LINDEN, Calif. More skull fragments and other human remains, along with clothes, a purse and jewelry, have been unearthed from a well in rural Northern California, an area where a convicted serial killer said there might be 10 or more victims from a killing spree in the 1980s and 1990s.

Romney's 38-31 percent defeat of Santorum in a straw presidential vote among thousands of activists at the annual convention of the Conservative Political Action Committee bolstered his claim that he can consolidate support among the Republican base.

Contract talks kicking off this month between the state and four employee unions present Gov. Jerry Brown with a political dilemma: How does he deal fairly with his key labor constituency without exposing himself to charges he's kowtowing to them?

BOSTON The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum has released some of the personal papers of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

WALPOLE, N.H. Classes are resuming at a New Hampshire elementary school after a 14-year-old boy shot himself in the face in a crowded cafeteria on Friday.

DALLAS Diane Aulger was about two weeks from her delivery date when she and her husband decided there was no time to wait: Mark Aulger had only days to live, and he wanted to see his child.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. The trial of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player charged with killing his ex-girlfriend is entering its second week after testimony that portrayed the couple's relationship as volatile.

LINDEN, Calif. Authorities on Sunday unearthed more skull fragments and other human remains, along with clothes, a purse and jewelry, in a well in rural Northern California, an area where a convicted serial killer said there may be 10 or more victims.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Authorities say the daughter of a pastor was accidentally shot in the head at a church in St. Petersburg.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. A US Airways passenger jet traveling from Charlotte to Charleston, W.Va., has had to turn around and make an emergency landing.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. A dream honeymoon to scuba dive on Australia's Great Barrier Reef turned into a terrible nightmare, and the horror is about to play out years later in a courtroom in Alabama.

SALT LAKE CITY A Utah man who police say threatened to assassinate Gov. Gary Herbert and who conducted surveillance on the governor's mansion is facing multiple felony charges.

PUYALLUP, Wash. Volunteers sifted through tons of paper at a recycling center Sunday, hoping to find items that Josh Powell may have dumped before killing himself and his two sons in a house fire last week.

LOS ANGELES Whitney Houston's daughter has been released from a Los Angeles hospital after being rushed there the morning after her mother's death.

PITTSBURGH As natural gas prices continue to drop, the recent nationwide boom in drilling is slowing. Drillers don't make money if prices go too low - and drilling wells isn't cheap.

SALT LAKE CITY A Utah man who police say threatened to assassinate Gov. Gary Herbert is now facing multiple felony charges.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. When Providence Mayor Angel Taveras recently warned that Rhode Island's capital could run out of cash by June and face bankruptcy, he singled out the city's largest employer and one of its most prestigious institutions - Brown University - for what he called a failure to sacrifice.

TRENTON, N.J. An off-duty New Jersey county sheriff's officer who was shot and seriously wounded when he tried to intervene in a domestic dispute has won a $5.9 million civil judgment against the gunman.

HOUSTON From testimony about bribes, blood oaths, faked profits and secret Swiss bank accounts, the ongoing fraud trial of jailed and former jet setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford has had its share of drama.

SAN FRANCISCO The U.S. government is seeking software that can mine social media to predict everything from future terrorist attacks to foreign uprisings, according to requests posted online by federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. The first Oscars of the year have been presented at the Scientific and Technical Awards, the motion picture academy's annual celebration of the geeks and gizmos that make movie magic.

LOS ANGELES Jennifer Hudson will pay tribute to her idol, Whitney Houston, at Sunday's Grammy Awards.

WASHINGTON Jeanette Barraza-Galindo conspicuously left her bags of teddy bears and throw pillows on a bus during an inspection at the Texas-Mexico border - and professed ignorance about the $277,556 officers found hidden inside. The bags were handed to her at a bus station, gifts to be given to a child upon her return to Mexico, she told investigators.

TACOMA, Wash. More than a thousand people mourned the deaths of Charlie and Braden Powell at a public funeral Saturday, nearly a week after the young boys' father killed them and himself in a gas-fueled blaze.

BISMARCK, N.D. No immediate discipline is planned for any Dickinson State University employees in the wake of an audit determining the school awarded hundreds of degrees to foreign students who didn't earn them, the chancellor of North Dakota's university system said Saturday.

MILWAUKEE Lawyers for a man who was sexually abused decades ago by a priest at a Wisconsin school for the deaf have withdrawn their lawsuit naming Pope Benedict XVI and other top Vatican officials as defendants, a major victory for the Holy See, which has long insisted the pope bears no liability for the actions of an abusive priest.

CHICAGO After a week of controversy, Chicago officials have decided to design the 2012-13 vehicle registration sticker themselves.

ATLANTA Passengers on an American Airlines flight from Miami to Detroit have completed their journey hours after the plane made an emergency landing in Kentucky.

SPOKANE, Wash. Police said Saturday that they are looking for a 22-year-old man who is a "person of interest" in the deaths of a woman and two children whose bodies were found in a home in north Spokane.

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. A state senator and his wife said Saturday they were attacked and beaten at a Niagara Falls casino hotel after the lawmaker tried to break up an argument between two men, one of whom accused him of hating the Indian tribe that owned the resort.

ATLANTA Cold weather has been making a comeback in the South this weekend, after what's been a very mild winter so far.

WALPOLE, N.H. A teen who shot himself in the face in a crowded elementary school cafeteria in southwestern New Hampshire had residents Saturday asking how he got a gun into school and expressing concern for his classmates.

ATLANTA Atlanta police have arrested a suspect in the beating of a 20-year-old gay man that was captured on a widely viewed video.

WICHITA, Kan. Some 400 mourners gathered Saturday to honor a judge whose sheer stamina and devotion to justice kept him on the federal bench in Wichita up to his death last month at age 104.

JACKSON, Miss. The parents of two boys who say the teens were punched during high school baseball hazing rituals say they're being victimized again - this time because they aren't being allowed to play sports after switching schools.

LONGWOOD, Florida Gearing up for a tough political season ahead, Michelle Obama said Saturday she's trying to get as much done as possible before the general election campaign starts to drown out everything else.

WASHINGTON An organizer of the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is criticizing plans to remove an inscription from the monument, saying the changes will threaten the design.

SAN FRANCISCO Human remains uncovered in Northern California with the help of a convicted serial killer have been preliminarily identified as one of his victims, and authorities continued to search another site for the remains of as many as 10 people.

INDIANAPOLIS After losing their fight against right-to-work legislation, labor organizers are making a desperate bid on shop room floors and at union halls to persuade members to keep paying their union dues and avoid crippling labor's influence in Indiana.