YARMOUTH, Maine—Maine officials say two cross-sections cut from a 217-year-old giant elm named Herbie will be displayed by the town of Yarmouth and the state Forest Service.   Full Story

SAGUACHE, Colo.—A 31-year-old Indiana man says he had not food but kept himself hydrated with Mountain Dew and snow while he was stuck in his snow-covered SUV in southwestern Colorado for three days.   Full Story

ROCHESTER, N.Y.—A 22-year-old New York mother accused of going out on a midnight beer run when a stove fire erupted in the apartment where her children were left alone has been found guilty of criminally negligent homicide.   Full Story

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DALLAS—A sheriff's dispatcher says fires have struck two more rural east Texas churches, just hours after investigators announced that a blaze last week marked the eighth arson against a house of worship in the state this year.   Full Story

HONOLULU—The U.S. Coast Guard says the 28 crew members of a fishing vessel that caught fire 900 miles southwest of Honolulu have abandoned ship and are in two life rafts.   Full Story

MADISON, Ala.—A lawyer for a ninth-grader charged with shooting a fellow student to death at their Alabama school says the violence was likely related to gang activity.   Full Story

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.—Federal prosecutors say former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik should go directly to jail when he's sentenced next week.   Full Story

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.—A wealthy 68-year-old jeweler with two ex-wives in Europe who is accused of killing his third wife and burning her body testified Monday that he learned how bodies are incinerated when he questioned a mortician about his mother's cremation.   Full Story

SAN FRANCISCO—An instructor at a public community college in Fresno has been presenting his religious views on homosexuality, abortion and global warming as fact to students in an introductory health science class, the American Civil Liberties Union alleged Monday.   Full Story

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NEW ORLEANS—People lined up by the hundreds to buy Monday's Times-Picayune, which hollered "AMEN!   Full Story