Nation - Tuesday

Murkowski staffer pleads guilty

Jim Clark, former chief of staff for former Gov. Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) will plead guilty to fraud as part of an ongoing corruption probe. Clark conspired with an oil services company to hide from state regulators $68,000 in polls and consultants' fees for Murkowski's failed 1996 re-election bid. He faces up to four years in prison.

Eco-terrorists hit Seattle homes

Deliberately set fires caused more than $7 mil in damage to 3 houses in a Seattle suburb. Police said the arsonists left notes mocking the homes' claim to be green-friendly. The FBI is probing the fires as a potential domestic terrorism act by radical green groups.

Jury selection began in Ohio in the trial of three men charged with plotting to train terrorists to attack U.S. and allied troops overseas. Mohammad Zaki Amawi, Marwan Othman El-Hindi and Wassim I. Mazloum are accused of conspiring to kill people outside the U.S., including military personnel in Iraq. They have all pleaded not guilty. Gary Gygax, 69, co-creator of the Dungeons & Dragons game, died at his home in Lake Geneva, Wis., after a long illness. He was considered the father of fantasy role-playing games.