9-11 panel to query Rice on flaws\nWASHINGTON, D.C. -- The commission looking into the Sept. 11 attacks will ask Condoleezza Rice why governmental bureaucracy became so flawed as to allow the terrorist strike and how the Bush administration plans to fix the problems, panel members said Sunday.\n"Nineteen men with $350,000 defeated every single defensive mechanism we had up on the 11th of September, 2001, and they defeated it utterly," said former Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska.\nPresident Bush's national security adviser, in her public testimony Thursday, will need to answer how that happened, Kerrey said.\nRice also will be asked about ways to correct "what has gone wrong so badly," said a Republican commissioner, former Navy Secretary John Lehman.
Suspect in Kansas shootings found dead\nEDWARDSVILLE, Kan. -- An emergency medical technician and a paramedic were shot to death early Saturday in an apparent ambush, authorities said. The paramedic's husband, who was a suspect in the murders, apparently committed suicide later, authorities said.\nAuthorities found the two medics -- Tye Brown, 31, and Katherine Malone, 30 -- dead at a fire station shortly after midnight, said Eric Dooley, a spokesman for Metropolitan Ambulance Service Trust, an ambulance service for the two-state Kansas City area.\nThe pair, who lived together, had been shot multiple times, said Kansas City, Kan., police Capt. John Cosgrove said.
Texas woman who killed sons acquitted\nTYLER, Texas -- A woman who claimed God ordered her to bash in the heads of her sons was acquitted of all charges by reason of insanity Saturday after a jury determined she did not know right from wrong during the killings. A jury found that Deanna Laney was legally insane May 9 when she killed her two older sons, ages 6 and 8, in the front yard and left the youngest, now 2, maimed in his crib.\nLaney, 39, would have received an automatic life sentence had she been convicted of capital murder.\nLaney broke into tears as the verdict was read. Her husband, Keith Laney, sat solemnly with his head down. A few jurors cried and struggled to maintain their composure.
