Police may have ID on toddler's body

GALVESTON - Authorities said yesterday they were "fairly confident" that a child whose body was found on the shore of Galveston Bay last month was the 2-year-old daughter of a woman arrested during the weekend with her male companion. Authorities are awaiting DNA test results but believe the girl, who had been known only as Baby Grace since her body was found, is Riley Ann Sawyers of Spring, Galveston County sheriff's Major Ray Tuttoilmondo said at a news conference yesterday. (AP)

FORREST CITY - A passenger bus collided with a pickup truck and a tractor-trailer rig in fog and mist in eastern Arkansas, killing three people. The Tornado Bus Co. bus was westbound on Interstate 40 about 10 p.m. Sunday when it veered across the median into eastbound lanes. State Police spokesman Bill Sadler said the bus slammed into the oncoming pickup, then the 18-wheeler slammed into the bus, Arkansas State Police said. (AP)

NORRISTOWN - A former Ivy League professor pleaded guilty yesterday to voluntary manslaughter for killing his wife as she wrapped Christmas presents last year, telling a judge he "just lost it" during an argument. Rafael Robb, once a tenured economics professor at the University of Pennsylvania, faces a likely prison sentence of 4 1/2 to seven years for bludgeoning his wife, Ellen, on Dec. 22. Robb, 57, said yesterday that he got into an argument with his wife about a trip she was taking with their daughter and whether they would be returning in time for the daughter to return to school. (AP)

Representative Bob Filner, Democrat of California, has entered a plea days before he was set for trial on assault and battery charges over allegations he pushed a United Airlines baggage employee at Dulles International Airport. At a hearing yesterday, Filner entered a so-called Alford plea after prosecutors reduced the charges to trespassing. That means he did not admit guilt, but acknowledged sufficient evidence exists for a conviction. He was fined $100. (AP)