Manning

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning, who was previously known as Bradley Manning, wants estrogen treatments that would promote breast development and other female characteristics, which she'd be willing to pay for, while she's incarcerated at the all-men military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., her lawyer said.

Attorney David Coombs told The Associated Press on Monday that Manning hoped the military prison “will simply do the right thing” based on their request for hormone treatment so the soldier will not have to sue in military or civilian court. Coombs said at this point, Manning does not want sex-reassignment surgery and expects to be kept with men in prison where she's serving time for leaking mountains of classified material to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.

Coombs said Manning decided to announce that she wanted to live as a woman the day after sentencing because the prison said publicly it would not provide hormone treatment, her attorney said Monday.

LINCOLN, Neb. — An unusual, late-summer heat wave has enveloped much of the Midwest, putting schools and sports events on hold.Schools in Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin, the Dakotas and Illinois let out early on Monday as temperatures crept toward the mid-90s — beyond in some places.After-school sports practices and evening games were canceled in St. Paul, Minn., and misting stations were keeping people cool at the Minnesota State Fair, where about 90 fairgoers had been treated for heat-related illnesses over the weekend.

ORLANDO, Fla. — George Zimmerman, the Neighborhood Watch volunteer who killed Trayvon Martin, plans to ask the state of Florida to cover $200,000 to $300,000 of his legal expenses, his attorney said Monday.Because Zimmerman was acquitted, state law requires Florida to pay all his legal costs, minus the biggest one: the fee that goes to his lawyers.That includes the cost of expert witnesses, travel, depositions, photocopies, even an animated 3-D video, shown to jurors during closing argument, that depicts Martin punching Zimmerman.Defense attorney Mark O'Mara said Monday that his office is still collecting numbers, but he estimated the request would total $200,000 to $300,000.That would be on top of the estimated $902,000 that public agencies already have spent on Zimmerman's five-week second-degree murder trial that ended July 13.

FORT WORTH, Texas — An American Airlines pilot detained at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport 10 days ago by federal agents was carrying a laptop computer that contained photos of sadistic sex acts inflicted on children, some of them “held in bondage,” a court document shows.Christopher Holmes, 55, of Wilton Manors, Fla., was arrested Friday and remained in a Florida jail Monday, accused of transporting child pornography, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Dallas.Federal investigators have recovered “messenger chat logs” traced to Holmes in which he talked about his desire to violently rape and kill children, according to the complaint.The pilot has flown 23 years for American.