'Preppie killer' to return to jail

NEW YORK - New York's infamous "preppie killer" is headed back to prison. Robert Chambers had served 15 years behind bars for strangling Jennifer Levin in Central Park in 1986 during what he said was rough sex. He pleaded guilty yesterday to selling cocaine out of his apartment. The Manhattan district attorney's office said Chambers would receive 19 years and four months in prison when he is sentenced on Sept. 2. (AP)

HOUSTON - A passenger jet landed safely after blowing a tire on takeoff from Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport. Northwest Airlines Flight 3492 was headed to Minneapolis yesterday. The plane circled the airport so the control tower could check damage before it landed. (AP)

LYNWOOD - A SWAT team member killed a man who allegedly wounded the mother of his 2-year-old daughter and then held the girl hostage at his home in Lynwood, Los Angeles County officers said. The toddler was not harmed in the standoff, which ended late Sunday when Gerrardo Arvallo, 32, was shot. (AP)