ADELANTO — The mayor of this high desert down was arrested Tuesday along with his wife for allegedly stealing more than $20,000 from Little League coffers over three years.

NEW ORLEANS — The Community Book Center, a longtime fixture on Bayou Road in the Esplanade Ridge neighborhood, was one of the numerous small-business casualties of Hurricane Katrina. The storm ravaged the venture that Vera Warren-Williams had nurtured for 25 years, where she sold black novels, required school reading texts, gifts and artwork.

WASHINGTON -- Google is using its popular online mapping service to call attention to atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan.

SACRAMENTO — A state Assembly committee voted Tuesday for a bill that would allow gay couples to marry, despite a veto threat and a continuing debate over the legislation’s constitutionality.

MONAHANS, Texas — The former principal and assistant superintendent of a state juvenile prison were indicted Tuesday on charges that they sexually abused teenage inmates in their care.

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico — A few years after retiring to this Pacific resort city, David Bender was bored with golf. His new hobby, the American decided, would be tackling Mexico’s income inequality. He would do it by teaching English to Mexican children.

WASHINGTON — Democrats subpoenaed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales  Tuesday for more documents, escalating their fight with the Bush administration over the firings of eight U.S. attorneys.

CASABLANCA, Morocco — Acting on a tip, Moroccan police surrounded a building where four terrorism suspects were holed up Tuesday, causing three to flee and blow themselves up with explosives. The fourth was shot dead by a police sharpshooter as he apparently tried to detonate his bomb.

CARLSBAD — Forget being glued to their seats: Kids at a suburban San Diego high school couldn’t even get through their classroom doors Friday.

SANTORINI, Greece — Cleanup crews struggled to avert a major oil spill Tuesday on one of the Mediterranean Sea’s most picturesque destinations after a sunken cruise ship leaked dozens of tons of oil off the resort island of Santorini at the start of the summer tourist season.

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency, following a congressional mandate, finalized plans Tuesday for new standards to boost the use of renewable fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel.

RICHMOND, Va. — This is what the Museum of the Confederacy, the onetime “Shrine of the South,” has come down to:

9:30 p.m. NEW YORK -- Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical novelist who captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as ''Slaughterhouse-Five'' and ''Cat's Cradle,'' died Wednesday. He was 84.