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HOUSTON – Andrea Yates‘ attorney rejected a plea offer Monday that would have sent her to prison for 35 years for drowning her children and avoided a retrial. Defense attorney George Parnham said he rejected the plea offer because it doesn’t guarantee Yates would receive mental health treatment. The prosecution …

WASHINGTON – Senators from both parties on Tuesday challenged a Bush administration plan to sell more than 300,000 acres of national forest to help pay for rural schools in 41 states. Lawmakers said the short-term gains would be offset by the permanent loss of public lands. They also said profits …

ROSEVILLE, Calif. – Rescue crews found three bodies Monday in the charred remains of a suburban house where a small airplane crashed a day earlier, a city spokesman said. Two people aboard the single-engine plane were reported killed Sunday when it hit the house, sparking a fire that gutted the …