Steve Shickles

AP - Vermont State Police said Sunday the uncle of a missing 12-year-old girl — one of the last people to see her before she vanished — has been arrested on unrelated sex charges.

AP - A nearly 700-page study released Sunday by the Army found that “in the euphoria of early 2003,” U.S.-based commanders prematurely believed their goals in Iraq had been reached and did not send enough troops to handle the occupation.

AP - Admit it. That chunky carry-on bag of yours would never fit into the sample box displayed outside the airport gate.

AP - Tom T. Hall and the Statler Brothers were formally inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame with a musical tribute.

AP - As of Sunday, June 29, 2008, at least 461 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures June 21 at 10 a.m. EDT.

AP - Firefighters in Northern California battled more than a thousand wildfires to a stalemate by Sunday, but forecasters said dangerous conditions would not relent anytime soon.

Reuters - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will
confront his critics at an African Union summit on Monday,
fresh from victory in a one-candidate election which observers
said was unfair because of violence and intimidation.

AFP - Robert Mugabe faced mounting criticism Monday after beginning a new term as Zimbabwe’s president, with African observers and much of the world denouncing his one-man election as violence-wracked.

AFP - French officials were probing Monday an incident that left 17 people injured, including a child in critical condition, when soldiers used live rounds in a weekend visitors day display.

AP - Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand.

AP - A year ago, it seemed a proposed interstate compact designed to prevent thirstier regions from raiding the Great Lakes might be sunk by squabbles among the eight states with jurisdiction over the vast reservoir.

Reuters - A drug developed using
nanotechnology and a fungus that contaminated a lab experiment
may be broadly effective against a range of cancers, U.S.
researchers reported on Sunday.

AP - Even for an industry awash in bad news, the newspaper business went through one of its most severe retrenchments in recent memory last week.

AP - Former Intel Corp. Chairman Andy Grove has a knack for sensing when circumstances should force changes at a company or an industry — and how to respond.

AFP - Serena Williams is rarely upstaged in the fashion stakes on a tennis court but the former Wimbledon champion admits she has met her match in fellow American Bethanie Mattek, the leopard-skin queen.