AP - A registered sex offender confessed to killing a 13-year-old girl who disappeared a week ago, saying he got into an argument with her and he choked her to death in her home, the sheriff said Sunday.
AP - A woman who led an effort to help those ravaged by violence in Iraq fell victim to the war herself when a car bomb killed her and two other people, officials said Sunday.
AP - Bringing their suitcases and personal views on the future of the church, the cardinals who will select the next pope settled in their rooms Sunday in the Vatican hotel that will be their home until the world's 1.1 billion Roman Catholics have a new leader.
Shrouded in secrecy, cardinals will convene the first of a series of private meetings at the Vatican on Monday to elect a new pope. Isolated from the outside world, 115 cardinals from 52 countries on six continents will begin the millennium's first conclave, with the goal of electing the 265th pope and successor to Pope John Paul II.
A convicted sex offender has confessed to killing teenager Sarah Michelle Lunde, Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee announced Sunday. David Onstott, 36, was charged late Saturday night with first-degree murder. Lunde went missing last weekend and her body was found half a mile from her Ruskin, Florida home.
Top Democrats assailed House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on Sunday over ethical questions that have put him at the center of a political firestorm, while Republicans came to his defense.