Quake-prone southwestern China is hit with a magnitude-6.0 temblor. The earthquake injures more than 300, and leaves more than 400,000 searching for new homes. Nine aftershocks follow. In all, 18,000 homes collapse and another 75,000 suffer damage, according the Xinhua News Agency.

Sen. John Ensign's parents gave the Nevada Republican's mistress and her family $96,000 after they learned of the affair, an attorney for the senator says. The statement comes a day after Cindy Hampton's husband told a Las Vegas television show that Ensign paid her more than $25,000 in severance.
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A day camp director says a visiting group of minority kids was asked to leave a private swim club in a predominantly white suburb of Philadelphia. The club president says several members complained because the children "fundamentally changed the atmosphere" at the pool, but insists there was no discrimination.

Police in New York City are searching for a 46-year-old cleaning woman who vanished while working inside a building near ground zero on Tuesday. Security cameras, which are positioned throughout the building, captured Eridania Rodriguez during her shift but none showed her leaving.

An Amtrak passenger train slams into a sedan at a railroad crossing near Detroit. All five people in the car are killed, but no one on the train is seriously hurt. Police say it appears the car went around the lowered crossing gate.