HANDSOME CUB

Handsome cub
FORT WORTH, Texas -- A 6-week-old jaguar cub named Guapo, which means "handsome" in Spanish, plays with a toy inside his nursery, where he is being hand-raised, at the Fort Worth Zoo. Guapo made his public debut Monday in the Brush Country of Texas Wild! where a special nursery was created for the male cub. The Fort Worth Zoo is part of a jaguar breeding program which helps to educate the public about endangered species.
Ousted Ala. chief justiceplans to run for governor
GADSDEN, Ala. -- Roy Moore, who became a hero to the religious right after being ousted as Alabama's chief justice for refusing to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments from the courthouse, announced Monday that he is running for governor in 2006. Moore's candidacy could set up a showdown with Gov. Bob Riley, a fellow Republican, and turn the Ten Commandments dispute into a central campaign issue in this Bible Belt state.
Two Democrats, Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley and former Gov. Don Siegelman, are already running. The Republican and Democratic primaries are June 6. Moore, 58, said that if elected, he has no plans to relocate the Ten Commandments monument from its new home at a church in Gadsden.
"But I'll tell you what I will do. I will defend the right of every citizen of this state -- including judges, coaches, teachers, city, county and state officials -- to acknowledge God as the sovereign source of law, liberty and government," he said.
Senior cardinal playsdown shortage of priests
VATICAN CITY -- A senior cardinal on Monday reaffirmed the celibacy rule for priests and played down the shortage that has left many churches without clergymen to celebrate Mass, saying at the start of a meeting of the world's bishops that access to the Eucharist was a gift, not a right for Catholics.
Cardinal Angelo Scola, the key moderator of the Synod of Bishops, also reaffirmed that divorced people who remarry without getting an annulment cannot receive Communion.
But he said the synod would have to study the issue and hinted that certain aspects of it should be reconsidered, saying church tribunals that grant annulments should be more efficient.
American millionairearrives at space station
KOROLYOV, Russia -- American millionaire space traveler Gregory Olsen floated into the international space station Monday, welcomed by the outpost's two-man crew with the traditional Russian greeting of bread and salt.Two days after blasting off from Kazakhstan, a Soyuz capsule carrying the New Jersey scientist, as well as American astronaut William McArthur and Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev, hooked up with the station 250 miles above the Earth at 1:27 a.m. EDT, about five minutes ahead of schedule.
With the arrival, Olsen became the third private citizen to visit the orbiting station, having paid $20 million to become what he calls a "space flight participant."
Judge: Priest probablykilled two people in 2002
HUDSON, Wis. -- A judge ruled Monday that a Roman Catholic priest who hanged himself in December almost certainly killed two people at a funeral home more than three years ago.Circuit Judge Eric Lundell's finding came in the case of the Rev. Ryan Erickson, who committed suicide after being questioned by police about the 2002 slayings.St. Croix County District Attorney Eric Johnson said evidence suggests the funeral home's director had found out that the priest was sexually abusing someone, was providing alcohol to minors, or both. At the hearing, a deacon testified that Erickson confided that he shot to death funeral home director Dan O'Connell, 39, and employee James Ellison, 22. "He tells me that 'I done it and they were going to catch me,"' Deacon Russell Lundgren testified.
Associated Press