— From wire reports

Soldier trial — A U.S. soldier charged with killing 16 Afghan civilians is expected to undergo a court-ordered review of his sanity beginning this weekend, after the military judge overseeing the case agreed that the results would not automatically be shared with prosecutors, his lawyers said Wednesday.

Ohio rape trial — A 16-year-old girl was “substantially impaired” after an alcohol-fueled party, was unable to consent to sex and suffered humiliation and degradation when she was raped by two high school football players, a prosecutor said Wednesday in her opening statement at the boys’ trial. But a lawyer for defendant Trent Mays said his 17-year-old client “did not rape the young lady in question.” The two spoke at the opening of the juvenile court trial, which has drawn international attention to the small town of Steubenville, Ohio.

Chavez’s body — Venezuela’s acting president said Wednesday that it is highly unlikely Hugo Chavez will be embalmed for permanent viewing because the decision to do so was made too late and the socialist leader’s body was not properly prepared on time. “The decision should have been made much earlier,” Nicolas Maduro said during a speech at a government-run book fair. “The decision, or really the proposal more than a decision, was made as a product of love.”

Miracle birth — A woman who was given a new liver, pancreas, stomach and small and large intestine at a Miami hospital in 2007 has delivered a healthy baby girl, believed to be the first known case of a five-organ transplant patient giving birth. Fatema Al Ansari, 26, said Wednesday she was overjoyed after giving birth by cesarean section Feb. 26.

Military sexual assault — Choking back tears and in voices edged with rage, two women and a man who served in the U.S. military told a Senate panel Wednesday how they were raped by superiors and then ridiculed or ignored by military officials from whom they sought help. The three former service members, the first military sexual assault victims to testify before a Senate panel, described a pervasive culture of harassment and danger in which victims had little or no redress.

Alzheimer’s drugs — The Food and Drug Administration plans to loosen the rules for approving new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease. The proposal, published online Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, could help millions of people at risk of developing the disease by speeding the development and approval of drugs that might slow or prevent it.

New York shooting — A man neighbors said rarely spoke to them started a fire in his upstate New York apartment on Wednesday, shot four people dead at a couple of businesses in his hometown and a neighboring village and then exchanged gunfire with police officers who surrounded an abandoned building where he apparently was holed up, authorities said. At least one officer returned fire, and later it was unknown if the 64-year-old suspect, Kurt Myers, was still alive. Later, police spokesman Jack Keller said the troopers and local police would watch the building all night under the assumption that Myers was still alive.

Iran plans “Argo” suit — Iran is planning to sue Hollywood over the Oscar-winning “Argo” because of the movie’s allegedly “unrealistic portrayal” of the country, Iranian media reported Tuesday. Several news outlets, including the pro-reform Shargh daily, said French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre is in Iran for talks with officials over how and where to file the lawsuit. She is also the lawyer for notorious Venezuelan-born terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as Carlos the Jackal.