WASHINGTON — In a triumph for the pharmaceutical industry, the Senate on Monday killed a drive to allow consumers to buy prescription drugs from abroad at a significant savings over domestic prices.

LOS ANGELES — A trip to the grocery store is becoming a lot more fashionable as environmentally conscious consumers look to designer totes to bag their greens and express their style.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Further evacuations were ordered Monday in windy, parched Florida as a wildfire crept within a quarter-mile of several homes, one of numerous blazes that occupied crews around the country.

WASHINGTON — The gunman who killed 32 people at Virginia Tech failed to get the mental health treatment ordered by a judge who declared him an imminent threat to himself and others, a newspaper reported Monday.

PLAYAS, N.M. — Inside an adobe house in New Mexico’s remote southwestern corner, a terrorist cell has set up shop. Outside, a 12-member SWAT takes up positions, slaps an explosive on the door, blows it in, storms the place, and opens fire, the pop-pop-pop echoing through the desert.

MBANGA-PONGO, Cameroon — Investigators focused Monday on the possibility a Kenya Airways jetliner lost power in both engines during a storm just after takeoff and was trying to glide back to the airport when it plunged into a mangrove swamp 12 miles from the runway.

CAMARILLO — The Rev. Bill Lowe was ordained as the first married priest in the Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese.

TOPEKA, Kan. — Flooding forced hundreds of people from their homes Monday and blocked streets and highways following a weekend of violent thunderstorms across the central Plains.

SAN DIEGO — A Marine officer charged with failing to properly investigate the killings of 24 Iraqis heads to a Camp Pendleton courtroom Tuesday, the first hearing in the biggest U.S. criminal case involving civilian deaths in the Iraq war.

WASHINGTON — Washington turned out adoring schoolchildren and ladies in hats for Queen Elizabeth II’s visit. The White House laid on special touches, too, at President Bush’s first-ever white-tie state dinner to honor America’s closest ally and make the queen feel welcome.

GREENSBURG, Kan. — The death toll from a tornado that nearly obliterated this farming town climbed to 10 on Monday, but residents said it could have been far worse if not for a 20-minute warning that gave them time to take shelter in storm cellars and basements.