It was a bad week for Aaron Chesley. He talked back to the staff at a Baltimore homeless shelter, got into an argument with a fellow veteran and missed an appointment for his post-traumatic stress disorder counseling session.

SAN FRANCISCO — Municipal agencies may provide tax-exempt bonds to a religious school — as long as its curriculum includes secular classes, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The chief Yugoslav war crimes prosecutor denounced Kosovo’s former prime minister on Monday as a warlord and “a gangster in uniform” responsible for dozens of murders during the province’s 1998-99 war with Serb forces.

WASHINGTON — Flayed by lawmakers’ criticism, Army leaders said Monday they accept responsibility for substandard conditions at the service’s flagship Walter Reed Army Medical Center but also said they hadn’t known about most of the problems.

BEDFORD, Ind. — A pilot and his 8-year-old daughter were killed Monday when their small plane crashed into an in-law’s house near a southern Indiana airport, authorities said.

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. — A man captured after a night on the run in the snowy wilderness confessed to killing his wife in the couple’s home while their children were there and later dismembering her, authorities said Monday.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Lorenzo Gilyard, a former trash company supervisor described by neighbors as mild-mannered and friendly, went on trial Monday in the serial killings of woman and girls in the Kansas City area, most of them prostitutes.

CHICAGO — The number of U.S. children having obesity surgery has tripled in recent years, surging at a pace that could mean more than 1,000 such operations this year, new research suggests.

JABAR, Afghanistan — A coalition airstrike destroyed a mud-brick home after a rocket attack on a U.S. base, killing nine people from four generations of an Afghan family including a 6-month-old, officials and relatives said Monday — one of the latest in a string of civilian deaths that threaten to undermine the government.

WASHINGTON — Raise my kids, or else!

SIGNAL HILL — A disgruntled employee shot and seriously wounded three co-workers at a menu printing plant Monday, then killed himself before a SWAT team entered the building, authorities said.

MEXICO CITY — A pair of foreign cave divers in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula said on Monday they have found subterranean passages that constitute the world’s longest underwater cave system.

WASHINGTON — Your chance of being stuck on a stuffy airliner for hours on a taxiway, like passengers on recent JetBlue flights, increased last year. Passengers on 7,405 planes spent at least two hours — and sometimes much longer — out on airfields waiting to take off.

BERKELEY — Ernest Gallo, who parlayed $5,900 and a wine recipe from a public library into the world’s largest winemaking empire, died Tuesday at his home in Modesto. He was 97.