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Elaine Thomans, who said she was an ex-girlfriend of the man
accused in the videotape molestation of a 3-year-old girl,
speaks out on Chester Arthur Stiles’ arrest.

President Bush was in Arkansas Monday where he explained
his decision to veto a measure to boost spending for the State
Children’s Health Insurance Program earlier this month.

Crews spent Sunday searching for bodies in the debris of a 15
tractor-trailer fire in an LA Tunnel. At least three people died.

A handcuffed prisoner was kicked repeatedly by four of his jail
mates inside of a holding cell in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

An emergency official in Yakima County, Washington, says it
appears no one survived the crash of a skydiving plane in the
central Cascades.

One of hundreds of balloons in town for festival tipped after
snagging a utility line Monday, sending a woman plummeting
at least 70 feet to her death.

A Tennesse barbar committed suicide at a City Council
meeting after his zoning request was rejected. About 50 people
were in the room when ROnald “Bo” Ward shot himself in the head.

A 19-year-old woman has said she will appeal a federal judge’s ruling
in favor of the California high school that disciplined her for kissing
another girl.

The family of a Florida teenager who fell ill after eating an E.coli
tainted hamburger is suing the Wal-Mart where the meat was
purchased. Nearly 22 million pounds of tainted ground beef
have been recalled.

A student fired shots inside a high school and held three
students hostage for over an hour before he was taken into
custody Friday morning, authorities said. No one was injured.

General Peter Pace, the outgoing Chairman of the Joint Cheifs
of staff, said goodbye to the Pentagon press corps on Thursday.

As police work to determine whether a bank employee was a
participant or victim in a robbery, they have announced that
a device strapped to the man’s chest during the crime was not
a bomb.

Police suspect driver fatique as a factor in a FedEx truck
crash that left hundreds of packages strewn along an interstate
highway near Fort Worth, Texas.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates asked Congress Wednesday
to approve nearly $190 billion for the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan in 2008, increasing initial projections by more
than a third.

Fire officials say a Maryland couple are lucky to be alive after
an explosion blew out a wall and most windows in their home.
Investigators believe there was a leak at the gas meter at the
side of the house.