2nd woman charged in plot to kill artist pleads not guilty

Langford, 64, arrived mid-morning in the company of relatives at the Federal Correctional Institution Ashland, a prison in northeastern Kentucky. He was convicted in the fall on 60 felony counts of taking some $240,000 in bribes from a former investment banker while serving as president of Alabama's Jefferson County Commission.

Authorities said Langford would spend several days adapting to life at the low-security lockup, which houses about 1,200 men in cellblocks and dormitory-style units.

-- Associated Press

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Climate change hits Glacier National Park

Glacier National Park has lost two more of its namesake moving ice fields to climate change, which is shrinking the rivers of ice until they grind to a halt, a government researcher said Wednesday.

Warmer temperatures have reduced the number of named glaciers in the northwestern Montana park to 25, said Dan Fagre, an ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. He warned that the rest of the glaciers may be gone by the end of the decade.

The park's glaciers have been slowly melting since about 1850, when the centuries-long Little Ice Age ended. They once numbered as many as 150, and 37 of those glaciers eventually were named.

A glacier needs to be 25 acres to qualify for the title.

-- Associated Press

Former Labor official pleads guilty in Abramoff case: A former official with the Labor Department has pleaded guilty in a corrupt lobbyist case. Horace Cooper, also a one-time aide to former Rep. Dick Armey (R) when he was majority leader of the House, pleaded guilty to falsifying a document when he did not report receiving gifts from lobbyists Jack Abramoff and Neil Volz in 2003. An indictment alleges he took expensive meals, concert tickets and sports tickets.

A new neighbor for Obama in Chicago: The house next door to the one owned by President Obama in a ritzy Chicago neighborhood has sold for $1.4 million after seven months on the market, said listing agent Matt Garrison. The previous owners, the Grimshaw family, bought the 6,000-square-foot home in 1973 for $35,000. The new owners, who want to remain anonymous, are from Chicago and plan to live in the house after a "massive" renovation of the eight-bedroom home, Garrison said.

-- Associated Press