Virginia: Three soldiers killed in Afghanistan buried

Three Army Rangers were buried Monday, one at Arlington National Cemetery and two in Florida, a week after they died trying to rescue another soldier on the deadliest day for America in the Afghan war.

The Pentagon, damaged in the terror attacks that pushed the nation into war, sat in full view of the more than 100 relatives, friends and comrades of Cpl. Matthew A. Commons of Boulder City, Nev., who gathered at Arlington National Cemetery.

Commons, 21, was the youngest of seven servicemen killed March 4 near Gardez in eastern Afghanistan.

In separate funerals in two Florida cities, Spc. Marc A. Anderson, 30, of Brandon, Fla., and Sgt. Bradley Crose, 22, of Orange Park, Fla., also were praised as courageous soldiers who lived and died by the Ranger Creed  never leave a fallen comrade behind.

The three soldiers, members of 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment at Hunter Army Airfield, Ga., died during a nine-hour firefight trying to rescue a Navy Seal.

Houston: Defense rests its case in child-drowning trial

Andrea Yates was “grossly psychotic” and lacked rational thought the day her five children died, a defense psychiatrist testified Monday before Yates’ attorneys rested their case.

“As she drowned each one of the children, she thought she was doing the right thing,” said Dr. Lucy Puryear, one of the first psychiatrists to examine Yates in the weeks following the June 20 deaths.

Puryear was the last witness to testify in the capital murder trial before the defense rested Monday afternoon. Closing arguments are scheduled today after jurors are given their instructions.

The 37-year-old registered nurse is on trial on two counts of capital murder in the bathtub drownings of Noah, 7, John, 5, and Mary, 6 months old. The deaths of Paul, 3, and Luke, 2, have also figured prominently in the case. She faces life in prison or death if convicted.

Wisconsin: Mother wants ban of Guinness Book

Guinness and school don’t mix, according to one teacher who is seeking to have recent editions of the famous world records book removed from a Wisconsin school district’s elementary libraries.

Photographs of women showing off the world’s most valuable bikini or most expensive bra and panties are inappropriate for young schoolchildren, Banting Elementary School teacher Mel Culver says.

She has asked the Waukesha district to remove copies of Guinness World Records 2001 that shows those items, as well as the 2000 and 2002 editions with similar pictures, from the libraries of all 17 district elementary schools.

“It has come to my attention as a teacher at Banting that boys are asking to go to the library for the sole purpose of looking at these pictures. The news of them has spread like wildfire,” Culver wrote in the complaint she filed with the district on Feb. 19.