Egyptian security surround the 3,000-year-old mummy, of what is believed to be Ramses I, who ruled Egypt from 1292-1290 B.C, following a news conference at the Egyptian museum in Cairo Sunday, Oct. 26, 2003. The pharaoh is returning to Egypt, 150 years after it was looted from its home, after being returned from The Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta. AP Photo

The Michael Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta, which bought the mummy three years ago from a museum in Ontario, returned the relic after determining it may be the founder of the 19th Dynasty and grandfather of Ramses II.

"Welcome Ramses, the builder of esteemed Egypt," a children's chorus sang as the box containing the mummy was brought into the Egyptian Museum.

Zahi Hawas, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said it wasn't certain that the mummy is Ramses I, but the return was "a great, civilized gesture" by the museum.

"We are not 100 percent sure that the mummy is that of Ramses I, but we are 100 percent sure that it is of a king," Hawas said.

The mummy was taken, he said, along with other artifacts from the tomb of Ramses I in Egypt's Valley of Kings.

Other experts, including Emily Teeter, curator of Egyptian antiquities at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, have said there is no hard evidence that the returned mummy is Ramses. Without a DNA match, scholars have relied on historical, archaeological and other scientific evidence to identify the mummy.

Many cite the position of the mummy's arms: crossed high over his chest in a fashion reserved for royal mummies at the time of Ramses' death. Some say he bears an undeniable resemblance to the pharaohs Seti I and Ramses II, descendants whose mummies have been identified.

Hawass ruled out the possibility of DNA tests, calling them unreliable. Egyptian antiquity officials have always rejected DNA tests on mummies of pharaohs, possibly fearing the tests could challenge established theories.

Hawass said the mummy will be displayed next year at the Luxor Museum in southern Egypt.

He appealed to other world museums to return Egypt's antiquities and masterpieces, particularly the bust of Nefertiti, in the Berlin Museum, and the Rosetta Stone, which is in the British Museum.

The mummy returned Sunday was the centerpiece of a large Egyptian collection the Emory museum purchased in 1999 from the Niagara Falls Museum in Ontario, Canada.

The Ontario museum likely received the mummy from a Canadian doctor who had the artifacts smuggled out of Egypt in the early 1860s.

Ramses I, ancestor of Egypt's most illustrious rulers, ruled for only two years, from from 1292-1290 B.C. He was the first of 11 rulers by the name Ramses in the 19th Dynasty.

Three infant bodies discovered in garbage bag

BROWNWOOD, Texas ---- A family renovating a rural home they had lived in for three years found an old trash bag in an attic crawl space containing the mummified bodies of three infants. Authorities said Sunday they were investigating the deaths as homicides.

"One baby was wrapped in a towel, one baby was in a blanket, and the baby we originally found was wrapped in a sheet inside a paper sack," said Chief Deputy Mike McCoy of the county sheriff's department.

McCoy said authorities were searching for the home's prior occupants and no arrests had been made.

The homeowners discovered the bag Thursday while renovating the two-story house near Brownwood, McCoy said. He wouldn't identify the family, but said they weren't suspected in the deaths.

The infants' ages and genders could not be determined due to deterioration. A call Sunday to the medical examiner's office, which has been examining the remains, was not immediately returned.

Brown County is about 150 miles southwest of Dallas.

'Scary Movie 3' tops box office

LOS ANGELES ---- The "Scary Movie" franchise has risen from the grave, with part three of the horror-spoof series opening as the top weekend flick with $49.7 million, the best October debut ever.

"Scary Movie 3" bumped the previous weekend's No. 1 movie, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," to second place with $14.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Premiering in third place with $14 million was the feel-good drama "Radio," starring Cuba Gooding Jr. in the real-life story of a mentally disabled man befriended by a high school football coach (Ed Harris).

Angelina Jolie -- whose career had been on the skids with the flops "Original Sin" and "Life or Something Like It," plus a weak return on last summer's "Tomb Raider" sequel -- delivered another turkey with "Beyond Borders."

A downbeat story of doomed romance between humanitarian-aid workers (Jolie and Clive Owen), "Beyond Borders" opened at No. 11 with just $2 million.

The overall box office soared, with the top 12 movies taking in $121.1 million, up 39 percent from the same weekend last year.

"Scary Movie 3" was a lesson in resurrecting a declining franchise. Created by the Wayans brothers, "Scary Movie" was a surprise hit in summer 2000, with a total gross of $157 million. Their "Scary Movie 2" the following spring smacked of a rush job and did less than half the business of its predecessor.

Miramax, whose Dimension banner releases the "Scary Movie" flicks, tapped David Zucker, part of the team behind the disaster-film spoof "Airplane!" and the police parody "The Naked Gun," to direct "Scary Movie 3."

The audience was mainly younger than 25, but Zucker's involvement helped bring in older adults, Miramax co-founder Bob Weinstein said.

"David Zucker almost semi-invented this genre," Weinstein said. "You have those people who loved `Airplane!' but said, ah, `Scary Movie,' that's not for me, then going, oh, Zucker's doing it?"

Miramax also broadened the audience to younger teens by toning down the raunchy sight gags, holding "Scary Movie 3" to a PG-13 rating. The first two "Scary Movie" installments were rated R.

"The traditional wisdom is you don't mess with a franchise formula because you run the risk of alienating the core audience," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations. "In this case, the combination of retooling it and making it more accessible with a PG-13 rating was a perfect combination."

Zucker is returning to direct "Scary Movie 4," due out late next year, Weinstein said.

Disney's latest animated flick, "Brother Bear," debuted impressively in limited release, taking in $285,000 in two New York City and Los Angeles theaters. The movie, which features the voice of Joaquin Phoenix as an Inuit boy seeking to undo misdeeds that have transformed him into a bear, opens in wide release of about 3,000 theaters this coming weekend.

Also opening strongly in limited release were Jane Campion's dark murder thriller "In the Cut," starring Meg Ryan, and Gus Van Sant's "Elephant," featuring a group of unknown teen actors in a drama loosely inspired by the Columbine school shootings.

"In the Cut" took in $95,000 at six theaters. "Elephant," the top prize winner at last spring's Cannes Film Festival, grossed $90,000 in six theaters.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at North American theaters, according to Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc. Final figures will be released Monday.

1. "Scary Movie 3," $49.7 million.

2. "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," $14.7 million.

3. "Radio," $14 million.

4. "Runaway Jury," $8.4 million.

5. "Mystic River," $7.6 million.

6. "The School of Rock," $6.5 million.

7. "Kill Bill -- Vol. 1," $6 million.

8. "Good Boy!", $4.85 million.

9. "Intolerable Cruelty," $3.6 million.

10. "Under the Tuscan Sun," $2.2 million.

The butler's done it: Diana's friends trash tell-all book

LONDON ---- Princess Diana's friends call her ex-butler a vulture. He accuses royal courtiers of poisoning the minds of princes William and Harry. The butler's wife aims brickbats at Buckingham Palace.

And that's only so far: Paul Burrell's memoirs don't hit British bookstores until today.

Burrell is a "runaway train" with much distance yet to travel, former Buckingham Palace press spokesman Dickie Arbiter said in a weekend exchange of unpleasantries by all sides in the latest Diana dustup.

The Daily Mirror's serialization of Burrell's "A Royal Duty" has treated millions of readers to his intimate view of Princess Diana's life, including private correspondence from her former father-in-law, Prince Philip, and her brother, Earl Spencer.

Prince William and Prince Harry, who have known Burrell since early childhood, issued a strong statement Friday, accusing him of a "cold and overt betrayal" of their mother that would have mortified Diana were she alive.

"My only intention in writing this book was to defend the princess and stand in her corner," Burrell replied.

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In an interview with British Broadcasting Corp. television to be broadcast Monday, Burrell said he was "angry" with the princes, accusing them of following advice from courtiers.

"Why listen to people who always say yes and no one tells you no?" Burrell said.

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In an interview published in The Sunday Times, the ex-butler was quoted as saying, "The princes' little minds were poisoned. I don't know what courtiers have said to them."

Burrell also reportedly said the letters revealed so far are "the tip of the iceberg" and that he might release more.

The Sunday Times quoted an unidentified spokeswoman for Clarence House, the London home of Prince Charles and his sons, as saying their statement was "a heartfelt reaction by two young men who cannot take any more."

In the months after Diana's fatal August 1997 car crash in Paris, Burrell vowed repeatedly never to divulge her secrets. One of the first to appear in the Daily Mirror serialization last week was a letter he said Diana had written to him, saying she feared someone wanted to harm her and was going to tamper with the brakes of her car.

Although a French judge ruled that the car crashed due to its high speed and the effect of alcohol and drugs on fatally injured driver Henri Paul, some insist the crash was not an accident. Publication of the letter prompted Mohammed Al Fayed, father of Diana's companion Dodi Fayed, who died in the crash with her, to renew his allegations that they were murdered.

Rosa Monckton, one of Diana's closest friends, who rarely comments publicly about the princess, wrote in The Sunday Telegraph about that letter.

"This was by no means the only time that ludicrous ideas were put into her head by the sort of people who always prey upon vulnerable women in high places -- astrologers, so-called mystics and other pagan riffraff," Monckton said.

She said Burrell, better than most, knew how hounded the princess was during her life, "and yet now he joins the rest of the vultures who had the task of looking after her, in picking over the bones of her existence in his book."

However, Monckton said she was glad the serialization "destroys the myth that the Duke of Edinburgh (Prince Philip) was brutal or unfeeling toward her."

The letters said to be from Prince Philip held Diana partly responsible for the breakdown of her marriage. He also purportedly wrote to tell her he "never dreamed" Prince Charles would leave her for his longtime companion, Camilla Parker Bowles.

Vivienne Parry, another friend and a former trustee of Princess Diana's memorial fund, described Burrell's book as "cynical."

"I think there has been no wrestling with his conscience. The only thing he has been wrestling with is which letter to draw from the capacious file marked 'P' for pension plan," Parry told BBC television Sunday.

Burrell spent nearly two years fighting accusations that he stole more than 300 items from the princess and other royals, and went on trial last year.

He was exonerated in November when Queen Elizabeth II announced the servant had told her five years earlier that he'd taken some of Diana's papers for safekeeping.

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In the BBC interview, Burrell complained that Diana's sons had not been in touch with him since his trial.

"It would have been a very different world if the telephone had rung and the boys had said `Oh Paul, we're sorry we couldn't help you during your trial. We just couldn't, our hands were tied. Why don't you come down to London with Maria and the boys and we'll do something?"'

Referring to his book, Burrell added: "Just one telephone call would have stopped it, one. Is that too much too ask -- really?"

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Now, Burrell's wife, Maria, is getting into the fray.

In the Sunday Mirror, she was quoted as saying, "The Royal Household want everyone to focus on the plight of William and Harry, but what about my boys? No one gave them any consideration when their dad was dragged to court and threatened with prison when all he did was protect Princess Diana's world."

Arbiter, the former palace spokesman, predicted Burrell was not finished with his revelations -- even with the publishing of his book.

"We have got a runaway train here and it is not going to stop until it hits the buffers, and the buffers are a long way off," Arbiter said Saturday.

Twin earthquakes hit northwestern China

BEIJING ---- The central government sent cold-weather tents, seismological teams and cash Sunday to an earthquake-prone patch of remote northwestern China where powerful twin tremors, minutes apart, killed nine people and leveled houses in their wake.

The first quake in rural Gansu province, which hit at 8:41 p.m. Saturday and measured magnitude 6.1, sent people scurrying into freezing temperatures. As some ventured back inside, the second temblor -- almost as powerful at magnitude 5.8 -- hit seven minutes later.

"It was chaos. People were running out of their homes and into the night," a resident of Yonggu township told The Associated Press. Reached by telephone Sunday, he gave only his surname, Zhang.

Another six people were seriously hurt and 37 more suffered minor injuries, the official Xinhua News Agency reported from Lanzhou, the provincial capital. More than 200 aftershocks were reported -- several as strong as magnitude 4.0, the government said.

The hardest-hit areas were Minle, Sunan and Shandan counties near the city of Zhangye, roughly 850 miles west of the capital, Beijing. Authorities said 143,000 people were affected, and government pictures from the scene showed stone houses collapsed into piles of rubble, residents in shelters and pigs wandering amid wreckage.

The three counties are located in an earthquake-prone region called the Qilian seismic zone, where a mountain range of the same name bumps up against flatlands. Government seismologists say a rupture in the range may be making the area more seismically active.

An 8.5-magnitude quake on the edge of the zone in 1920 killed 200,000 people, according to Zhang Xiaodong of the State Seismological Bureau's analysis and forecast center. In 1954, a 7.3-magnitude quake in the zone rumbled through Shandan County, killing 50 people.

Xinhua, quoting the provincial seismological bureau, said 30 percent of houses near the quakes' epicenter were damaged severely and that 90 percent of buildings in Yaozhaizi, a small village in Yonggu Township, had collapsed.

The central government's Civil Affairs Ministry said "over 10,000 residential rooms collapsed" but didn't specify what that meant. It also said 3,000 head of livestock were either killed or hurt and that schools, grain warehouses and bridges were damaged.

Authorities also lowered water levels on two reservoirs in the area, saying they feared flooding after they spotted cracks on dams after the quakes.

The water release from the Shuangshusi and Zhaizhaizi reservoirs in Minle County began minutes after the quakes and continued through the night. Nearly 200 million cubic feet of water had been released by Sunday morning, the central government said.

The region has experienced snow and below-freezing temperatures in recent days, lending urgency to relief efforts and the erecting of temporary shelters.

"Most people slept outside last night. They wanted to make sure their houses didn't collapse on them," said Lu Jinggui, a curtain-shop clerk in Minle County. She said the quake damaged her wall with cracks wide enough to insert a chopstick.

"I think everyone will be sleeping outside again tonight -- just to be safe," Lu said Sunday afternoon.

Premier Wen Jiabao ordered a "quick and full" response by the Civil Affairs Ministry and asked for assistance from the nation's military. Xinhua said 2,000 padded tents were on the way, and the government earmarked $843,000 for initial relief efforts.

"We need to monitor the immediate aftermath of an earthquake like this to determine whether we can expect more major tremors in the near future," said Chen Jianmin, a government seismologist, shown on China Central Television as he left Beijing for the quake-hit area.

The region is located in a narrow corridor between the Gobi Desert and mountains that line the border between the provinces of Gansu and Qinghai.

In Yonggu, Zhang said he was typing on his computer in a village office when the ground rumbled.

"Suddenly, I heard a loud bang. I didn't know what happened. I ran out of the office and into the cold," he said. He described streets filling up with people emerging from their homes. Then, seven minutes later, the second tremor hit.

"I had gone back into the office to turn off the computer when the next one came," Zhang said. "I ran out again. By that time, the power was out and I didn't have to turn off the computer anymore."

Casino and Gaming network created

LOS ANGELES ---- Creators of the Casino and Gaming Television network are betting that a national interest in gambling will translate into a desire to watch it on TV.

The new network is scheduled to launch in 2004 as a digital cable and satellite channel with shows such as "Winning Hand," with poker experts offering tips on the game, and "Dusk 'Til Dawn," a tour of night spots in Las Vegas, Monaco and other gambling destinations.

The number of Americans who bet represents a vast potential audience, said David Hawk, co-founder and co-chairman.

More than 50 million Americans made more than 300 million visits to casinos last year, Hawk said, citing research conducted for the American Gaming Association.

Other "niche" channels, such as the Golf Channel, have succeeded with a smaller pool to draw from, Hawk said. About 25 million people visited golf courses last year, half the number of casino-goers, he said.

The new channel, being announced Monday, will target the young male crowd, age 21 to 34, which is valuable to advertisers, said Nickolas J. Rhodes, the network's president and chief executive officer.

Television has been dealing out an increasing number of gambling-themed shows, including Travel Channel's hit series on the World Poker Tour and the upcoming "Celebrity Poker Showdown" on Bravo.

Still, it remains to be seen whether gambling shows will be successful.

"That's the ultimate question," said Bill Carroll, an analyst for Katz Television, a media buying firm. "The marketplace will determine if there really is a need for any of these digital channels that are specially targeted."

The network, which plans to raise $75 million in operating capital by first quarter 2004, is negotiating carriage deals. The goal is to reach 1 million homes initially and be in at least 20 million homes in four years.

Missing inmates found hiding in prison

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. ---- Two convicted murderers who disappeared after allegedly beating another inmate to death at a prison ice plant were found Sunday, still inside the Missouri State Penitentiary.

Inmates Christopher Sims and Shannon Phillips were discovered in the same building where they are believed to have killed convicted murderer Toby Viles four days earlier, corrections department spokesman John Fougere said.

He said both men surrendered without a struggle.

Hundreds of prison officials had been combing the penitentiary and its grounds since the men disappeared Wednesday, suspecting the inmates might never have escaped. No evidence of an escape had been found and no sightings of the men had been reported outside the prison.

"They had constructed a very carefully concealed false wall, which was right near their work site at the ice house," Fougere said. He said the two likely had remained behind the wall most of time they were missing.

They were found when a prison staff member, tapping the wall as part of the search, was able to punch a hole in it, Fougere said.

Phillips immediately stuck his hand out and said "`I give up,"' Fougere said.

Phillips, 35, has been serving a life prison sentence for a murder in Kansas City. Sims, 27, had been serving a life sentence for a murder in St. Louis.

Cole County Sheriff John Hemeyer has said that a note found near Viles' body bearing the initials of the two inmates claimed responsibility for his death and threatened to kill anyone else who got in their way.

The inmates had food with them when they were found, corrections department spokesman Tim Kniest said.

Prison officials said Sunday that Sims and Phillips had been placed in administrative segregation and would be questioned. There was no indication of a motive for the killing, Fougere said.

Arrest of Japanese shoe snatcher leads police to trove of 440 stolen left shoes

TOKYO ---- Police arrested a man for stealing shoes at a southern Japanese hospital then found a collection in his home of 440 women's shoes ---- all for the left foot.

The private hospital in Usu city, 500 miles south of Tokyo, began receiving complaints two years ago from patients and employees that shoes removed at the entrance hall were disappearing. In Japan, it is customary to remove shoes before entering homes and some public facilities.

The missing footwear was always for the left foot and in a women's shoe style, a local police spokesman said Sunday.

Ichiro Irie, 45, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of having stolen two leather shoes the previous day during one of his twice-weekly hospital visits, the spokesman said.

In Irie's home, police found a box in a closet overflowing with the left mate to 440 pairs of women's shoes, including high heels, patent leather pumps, sandals and nurses shoes.

When questioned about the alleged thefts, Irie told police he had "a penchant for women's feet," the Yomiuri newspaper, a major daily, said.

It was not clear why he may have preferred the left foot.

Town saw change in wife after husband disappeared; body found 14 months later

DEFIANCE, Iowa ---- Townspeople knew about Scott Shanahan's temper, that he was often moody and was anti-social. Some people said they saw the bruises that his wife, Dixie, tried to hide.

But authorities say Dixie Shanahan, 36, kept her biggest secret for the 14 months that followed her husband's August 2002 disappearance. This past week, Scott Shanahan's skeletal remains were found in a spare bedroom in their house. An autopsy showed he had been shot in the head.

Dixie Shanahan has since been ordered held on a charge of first-degree murder, and her children ---- ages 7, 5 and 8 months ---- have been placed in state custody.

Her lawyer, public defender Greg Steensland, did not return a message left Saturday seeking comment on the case.

In July, nearly a year after Dixie Shanahan had reported her husband missing, she told sheriff's Deputy John Kelly that he had left her and moved to the nearby town of Atlantic.

Neighbors had already noticed a change in her.

"She was free ---- like a weight had been lifted off her shoulders," said Mary Schmitz.

Schmitz and her son, Doug, said that they never saw Dixie Shanahan with bruises but that there were rumors that abuse was common in the household.

"I can see what she went through, and he got what he deserved if what they say is true," Mary Schmitz said.

Court records show that on several occasions Scott Shanahan beat his wife, leaving her bloody and bruised.

In October 2000, a friend of Dixie Shanahan's told deputies that he had dragged her to the basement, tied her hands with a coat hanger and told her he could leave her there for weeks and "no one would know the difference," court records show. She went to a women's shelter in Texas, near relatives, but soon returned.

Resident Mickey Kloewer said people knew of the abuse. "But you didn't want to intrude in their business," Kloewer said.

Dixie Shanahan had moved in with Scott Shanahan and his mother, Bev, in this western Iowa town of 350 people when she was a foster child about 14 years old. They married about eight or nine years ago and stayed in the same house, which his mother had left to him when she died.

Doug Schmitz and other neighbors described Scott Shanahan as moody and anti-social.

No one thought much about his disappearance until several months had passed and they noticed he had left his pickup truck and dog behind, Doug Schmitz said.

"People joked about it, that he was buried in the back yard, or buried in concrete in the basement," Doug Schmitz said.

Karen Kloewer said the case has shaken the town.

"It's heartbreaking to think she didn't think she could turn anywhere for help," she said. "I think the whole town stands behind her and is feeling for her and her children. I just wish she would have turned to the community for help."

450 women join nude photo shoot

NEW YORK ---- The women crossed their arms to keep warm in the main concourse of Grand Central Terminal early Sunday as they prepared to pose for Spencer Tunick's latest human art installation.

All 450 of them were nude.

"I love his art and I think he's creating an amazing thing ---- something different, something fresh," said Anna Springer, 30, a real estate executive.

Tunick, a New York-based artist, has gained an international reputation for his arrangements of nude art installations involving hundreds of people in cities around the world. He's also been arrested several times in New York for previous projects.

For his latest, he said, he first sought permission to use the New York Public Library and the Museum of Natural History but was rebuffed by both.

"I wanted to bring the most beautiful people into the most beautiful building," he said Sunday inside the Grand Central concourse.

The women, all volunteers, arrived at about 3 a.m. Sunday, stripped off their clothes and composed their bodies into sculptural shapes and formations meant to imitate streets, buildings and cityscapes. The building had been closed to the public during the shoot.

Tunick took photographs from a stairway in the concourse. He shouted instructions through a megaphone, telling the women to form triangles and square with their bodies on the floor.

Tunick's past nude shoots in New York have sometimes provoked controversy.

In January 1996, two of his nude models were arrested atop of a Manhattan snowdrift, posed beneath an ice-cream parlor sign that advertised "Frozen Fantasies."

On New Year's Eve 1994, Tunick and a model were arrested when she posed nude on top of an 8-foot-high simulated Christmas tree ornament at Rockefeller Center.

Charges were dismissed in both cases.

"In the past, the New York administration considered the body to be a crime, or pornographic," Tunick said Sunday. "I hope this administration considers the vulnerability of the body."

The current installation is part of the artist's "Naked World," in which he has been traveling the world, hoping to gather more than 35,000 people to pose.

Names in the news

LOS ANGELES -- Oscar-winner Russell Crowe can't wait to take on his next role -- as a father.

"Like, whoa, this is gonna be fun," Crowe told Entertainment Tonight's Mary Hart on Saturday.

Crowe, 39, and his wife, Danielle Spencer, are expecting their first child in January.

Crowe, who won an Academy Award for "Gladiator," said he doesn't expect fatherhood will crimp his career, at least not in the beginning.

"He's gonna travel with me," said Crowe, who also was nominated for an Oscar in "A Beautiful Mind."

"I mean that's the plan at this point in time. I think prior to him going to school I think the best thing to do is to make sure that he is wherever I am," Crowe said.

"Once he goes to school things are really going to have to change at supposedly that point. 'Cause I don't think I'd like to do anything, you know, more than pick him up from the school gate every day."

This fall, Crowe appears as a Napoleonic-era naval captain in the film "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World."

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" author Peter Hedges says he struggled as an acting student at the North Carolina School of the Arts.

But instructors of the novelist and playwright recognized his potential.

"They saw that I was a writer before I did," said Hedges, who visited the Winston-Salem college recently. He graduated in 1984.

Hedges, 41, is making his directing debut with "Pieces of April," a Sundance Film Festival favorite that stars Katie Holmes and Patricia Clarkson.

The comic drama opened nationally Oct. 17. Hedges showed the film Friday at the North Carolina School of the Arts, and spoke with drama and film-making students.

Earlier this year, Hedges received an Oscar nomination for his movie "About A Boy."

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Former POW Jessica Lynch is working to establish a foundation that will be intended to help children of active-duty soldiers, her lawyer says.

Lynch, 20, is still recovering from injuries suffered in Iraq when her convoy was ambushed on March 23.

Her lawyer, Stephen Goodwin, said Lynch wants to set up the foundation in memory of her best friend, Spc. Lori Piestewa, of Tuba City, Ariz., who was killed in the attack. Piestewa left behind two children, Brandon, 5, and Carla, 3.

"This is because of Lori more than anything," Goodwin said Friday. "Jessi loves little kids and wanted to give something back."

Details of eligibility for aid are still being discussed, a spokesman for Lynch, Aly Goodwin Gregg said Sunday.

The foundation will be partially funded with proceeds from Lynch's upcoming book, Goodwin said. "I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story" is scheduled for released on Veteran's Day.

TUCSON, Ariz. -- A lawyer for Diana Ross is asking that a new judge hear his request to toss out the breath test results expected to be used in the pop diva's drunken driving trial.

Ross was stopped on Dec. 30 and faces three DUI-related charges in Tucson City Court. She has pleaded innocent.

Lawyer Stephen Paul Barnard filed a petition requesting that another judge consider the motion to dismiss the breath tests.

Tucson City Magistrate T. Jay Cranshaw had previously dismissed Barnard's contentions that Ross had felt intimidated and coerced to take several breath tests, and allowed the results to be used at trial.

The trial, originally set for Sept. 9 and then Dec. 9, is now scheduled for January.

Rescuers seek 13 miners as water rises

NOVOSHAKHTINSK, Russia ---- More water flooded into a coal mine Sunday as rescuers labored to reach 13 miners they believe could still be alive after being trapped thousands of feet underground for a third day.

On Saturday, 33 trapped, exhausted miners were brought to the surface. But emergency workers were unable to locate the position of 13 others in the Zapadnaya mine in southern Russia.

"As far as we know, they are in a dry place with a temperature of 24 (75 degrees Fahrenheit)," said Viktor Kapkanshchikov, head of the Emergency Situations Ministry's rescue operation, on Sunday.

But water was rising at such a rate that the mine could be completely flooded by midday Tuesday, he said.

The miners were working some 2,625 feet, or about a half-mile, down in the Zapadnaya mine Thursday when water from a subterranean lake leaked into a shaft above them, blocking their way to the surface, said Col. Viktor Shkareda, head of the regional emergency department.

A two-person rescue team that went down into the mine early Saturday reached the pitface where the men were trapped and located 33 of the miners, who eventually were brought to the surface on an elevator in a subsidiary shaft and taken to a local hospital. All were in satisfactory condition Sunday, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.

There were 71 miners working in the Zapadnaya mine in the Rostov-on-Don region, about 600 miles south of Moscow, when the accident happened, Shkareda said.

He said 25 miners managed to escape to other pits and reach the surface after the leak filled several shafts.

Electricity in the mine was shut off, and the stranded miners had low batteries to light their lamps and no food, Shkareda said. But, he said, workers were able to provide ventilation to allow them to breathe during their ordeal.

Trucks dumped hundreds of thousands of cubic feet of earth and rock into the mine to plug the leak while rescuers carved tunnels from adjacent mines.

Accidents are common in the Russian coal industry, and miners stage frequent protests over wage delays and declining safety standards. According to the Independent Coal Miners' Union, 68 miners were killed on the job last year and 98 in 2001.

Jurors observe emotional moments

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. ---- Kwang Im Szuszka sobbed as she looked at a photo of her slain sister and recognized the red cooler that her sibling used to carry her lunch to work.

Muhammad Rashid slumped in the witness stand as he listened to himself on a recording of the 911 call he made after he was shot, crying out to a dispatcher: "I am dying."

The first week of testimony in the trial of sniper shootings suspect John Allen Muhammad was filled with emotionally charged moments, and more are expected this week as prosecutors continue methodically detailing the three weeks of shootings last October that killed 10 people and terrorized Washington, D.C., and its suburbs.

Muhammad is being tried only in the death of Dean Meyers, gunned down at a gasoline station in Manassas. But because one of the capital murder charges against him alleges multiple murders over three years, prosecutors must prove Muhammad committed at least one other murder.

That means jurors also are hearing from survivors of other shootings and relatives of other people slain, despite defense attorneys' objections that their testimony is irrelevant or inflammatory.

They're also being shown crime-scene and autopsy photos from other sniper attacks; one autopsy photo displayed on Friday was so grisly some jurors looked away.

During opening statements last Monday, prosecutors outlined 16 shootings they plan to link to Muhammad and fellow suspect Lee Boyd Malvo, including attacks in Alabama and Louisiana.

But Ed Bronson, a defense jury consultant retained in the Oklahoma City bombing and Unabomber trials, said prosecutors need to be careful because they could end up bringing in evidence that, in case of a conviction, an appellate court might reject as prejudicial.

The case is an apparent slam-dunk, he said. "Why take that kind of risk when you don't need to?"

Meyers' brother, Larry, was among the first to testify last week, stoically identifying Dean Meyers from a photo showing his bloodied body sprawled next to a gasoline pump -- a scene so disturbing that some courtroom spectators drew sharp breaths.

That was clearly an attempt to gain the jurors' sympathy, and it could backfire, said jury consultant Howard Varinsky, who worked on the trial of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

"What happens when juries see the reaching for sympathy? They're not stupid, they say 'Come on, what's this for?"' Varinsky said. "As a lawyer, you don't want juries being cynical of you."

Prosecutors also have asked relatives of other shooting victims to identify their loved ones from photographs of them, both in life and in death.

Szuszka testified about her sister, Hong Im Ballenger, who was shot and robbed on Sept. 23, 2002, outside the beauty supply store she managed in Baton Rouge, La.

Prosecutor Paul Ebert initially displayed two smiling photos of Ballenger.

Later, Ebert showed a photo of Ballenger's body. He asked if the small cooler next to the body was the one Szuszka had said her sister used as a lunchbox, and Szuszka cried as she said "Yes."

Rashid didn't flinch when Malvo was brought into the courtroom earlier in the week and he identified Malvo as the man who shot him in the abdomen outside a liquor store in Brandywine, Md., on Sept. 15, 2002.

But he crumpled when prosecutors played the tape of his 911 call, and some jurors put their hands up to their faces and one rocked in his seat. When the prosecutor asked if he was OK, Rashid's response of "Yes, sir" was barely audible.

Despite the effect of such testimony, the biggest impact on the jury probably was made by Muhammad himself when he decided, just before opening statements, to represent himself, experts said.

Muhammad ended up cross-examining one of his alleged victims, telling restaurateur Paul LaRuffa of Clinton, Md., shot in the chest on Sept. 5, 2002: "I understand how you feel when your life is on the line."

Outside court, LaRuffa described the cross-examination as surreal.

"It's from the twilight zone," LaRuffa said. "Defendants aren't supposed to question you, and that's what happened."

Two days later, Muhammad changed his mind and handed his defense back to his court-appointed attorneys. But by then, he had already done irreparable damage to his case, said Houston plaintiffs' attorney Joe Jamail, a former prosecutor who also served as the lead attorney in Pennzoil's victory over Texaco for control of Getty Oil.

"His appearance could do nothing but antagonize the jury," Jamail said. "He personalized the thing."

Alabama jury awards $20 million in fatal coal truck crash

BESSEMER, Ala. -- A jury awarded $20 million to the estate of a man who was killed when an overloaded coal trailer crashed head-on into his sport utility vehicle.

Lawyers for the coal company, Black Warrior Minerals Inc., declined to comment after Friday's trial and could not be reached Sunday.

In July 2002, the trailer of a truck carrying 46 tons of coal -- two tons over the legal limit -- separated from the cab along a back road in suburban Birmingham.

The runaway trailer ran a church van off the road, injuring two passengers, then demolished the SUV driven by 53-year-old Jimmie Bogue.

Bogue's estate settled with the trucking company, L&W Enterprises, for $600,000 and that company was dismissed from the lawsuit.