The nation's third schoolhouse atrocity in less than a week, the one in Nickel Mines, Pa., took place in a community as different from everyday America as horse-drawn buggies are from SUVs. How could it happen there, in rural farmland among the peace-loving Amish for whom the injunction "be ye not conformed to this world" is much more than a fine notion?
As the Amish community of Lancaster County, Pa., prepares private funerals after the very public deaths of five girls in a one-room schoolhouse Monday, experts on school violence and politicians are questioning what to make of a rash of similar incidents in the past few weeks.
Whispers Homepage blurb: Yes, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's wife really does hand out hankies to those who read her tearjerker book about daughters and their dads.
AP - Less than a week after the Food and Drug Administration lifted its warning on fresh spinach grown in California's Salinas Valley, a popular brand of lettuce grown there was recalled Sunday over concerns about E. coli contamination.
AP - For the past five years, Sen. George Allen, has failed to tell Congress about stock options he got for his work as a director of a high-tech company. The Virginia Republican also asked the Army to help another business that gave him similar options.
AP - Hundreds of Iraqi policemen fell sick from poisoning Sunday at a base in southern Iraq after the evening meal breaking their daily Ramadan fast, and officials said they were investigating whether the poisoning was intentional.
The head of the Republican House campaign committee has apologized for not catching Rep. Mark Foley in an alleged lie about his Internet exchanges with teen pages. He also reiterated his assertion that he told House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois, about Foley's behavior in the spring.