LITTLE ROCK — Sen. Edward Kennedy, 75, D-Mass., who had been resting at the family's Hyannis Port, Mass., compound since his Oct. 12 surgery in Boston to clear a partly blocked artery in his neck, was back at work in the Senate and said he's feeling fine and "I think it's just about getting the energy level back. ... The strength has been coming back daily."
Michael John Anderson, 19, was charged in Scott County, Minn., with second-degree murder in the shooting death of 24-year-old Katherine Ann Olson, who answered an online ad on Craigslist for a baby sitter.
Kate Williams, a 3-yearold found alive in the upsidedown wreckage of a plane that crashed in mountains near Golden, British Columbia, survived because she was strapped in a car seat, said rescuer Mike Plonka, adding that the little girl didn't want to be pulled out of the plane without her teddy bear.
Paul Addis, a performance artist accused in Nevada of prematurely torching the Burning Man festival's namesake effigy in August, has been arrested on suspicion of trying to set fire to historic Grace Cathedral in San Francisco's Nob Hill neighborhood, police said.
Tripp Wylie, a University of South Carolina student who jumped from a third-story window into a canal to survive a beach house blaze that killed seven, told Good Morning America that he had to decide fast because smoke was filling the room, adding he knew he "had to jump at some point; that was the only option."
Mike Maus, a Navy spokesman who said a 10-pound inert training bomb fell from a fighter jet over Virginia Beach, Va., added that no injuries and only minimal damage occurred when the bomb scraped a warehouse's concrete exterior wall.
Joshua Komisarjevsky, 27, one of two men accused of killing 48-year-old Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11, during a home invasion in Cheshire, Conn., in which only Dr. William Petit Jr. survived, pleaded innocent to charges of capital felony and multiple murder, kidnapping, sexual assault and arson.
Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, said her government would not try to introduce a speed limit on the country's famed freeways, the autobahn, despite a proposal from her coalition's junior party.
Ralph Nader, a consumer advocate and 2004 third-party presidential candidate, has filed suit in District of Columbia Superior Court against the Democratic Party, whose officials he contends conspired to keep him from taking votes away from nominee John Kerry and keep Nader off the ballot in several states.
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