Authorities say Anthony Sowell lured women into his home in a busy neighborhood, killed them _ most by strangulation _ and scattered their remains throughout the inside and buried some in the backyard.
A man shot by police as he was sought in connection with the Halloween killing of a Seattle police officer has been identified as 41-year-old Christopher Monfort.
A slain Catholic nun who lived and worked on the Navajo Indian reservation of western New Mexico was remembered for her passion for the poor at funeral services.
An Army psychiatrist who authorities say went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood was so conflicted over what to tell fellow soldiers about fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan that a local Islamic leader was deeply troubled by it, the leader said Saturday.