News from Jerusalem

· Spokeswoman: Sen. Kennedy hospitalized with seizure (AP)

AP - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was airlifted to a hospital Saturday after suffering a seizure at his home, and did not appear to have had a stroke as initially suspected, his spokeswoman said.

· 2 rail cars overturn in La., residents evacuated (AP)

AP - Six rail cars derailed in southern Louisiana Saturday, causing a hydrochloric acid leak from two of the cars that forced police to evacuate thousands of residents within a 1-mile radius of the accident.

· Former news exec, 35, is picked to lead NAACP (AP)

AP - The NAACP has chosen former news executive and lifelong activist Ben Jealous as its next president, the youngest in the 99-year history of the nation's largest civil rights organization.

· Police: Man with rifle wounds 3 outside SoCal church (AP)
AP - A man with a rifle opened fire at a festival outside a Southern California church Saturday, wounding three people, one of them critically, police said.

· Family of boy hit by baseball holds onto hope (AP)

AP - She wraps her arms around her son, gently raising the spindly 14-year-old boy off a couch to his feet. She hugs him and rubs his back, whispering "I love you" over and over.

· Carnival ride collapses in California; 24 injured (AP)
AP - State investigators were trying to determine what caused a spinning carnival ride at a county fair to collapse and injure all 24 people aboard.

· Marine who died after cross-state chase wrote of war stress (AP)

AP - Last month, Marine Staff Sgt. Travis N. "T-Bo" Twiggs went to the White House with a group of Iraq war veterans called the Wounded Warriors Regiment and met the president.

· Police find 3 decomposing bodies inside NJ home (AP)
AP - Police found three decomposing bodies with multiple stab wounds inside a northern New Jersey home Friday night, a prosecutor said.

· US prez race front and center at astrology convention (AP)
AP - Picking a winner of the presidential contest is front and center at what's being billed as the largest astrologers' convention in years.

· Upstate NY fort to commemorate anniversary of 1758 battle (AP)

AP - Before the Civil War and Antietam, the bloodiest battle fought on American soil was here, on a narrow but strategically vital strip of land between Lake Champlain and Lake George.