Subway spokesman due in court... Pistorius release halted... Yvonne Craig dead

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors say longtime Subway pitchman Jared Fogle has agreed to plead guilty to allegations that he paid for sex acts with minors and received child pornography. Fogle is due to appear in court in Indianapolis today. The government has agreed not to seek a sentence of more than 12½ years in prison, and Fogle has agreed not to ask for less than five years.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The release of Oscar Pistorius from prison has been put on hold. South Africa's Department of Justice says Pistorius' case will have to be reviewed again because he was approved to be moved to house arrest too early. The double-amputee runner was due to be moved to house arrest on Friday after serving 10 months of a five-year sentence for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.

CHELAN, Wash. (AP) — National Guard troops are joining hundreds of people fighting huge, destructive fires near the resort town of Chelan (shuh-LAN') in central Washington. The guard units are part of a massive response to blazes burning unchecked throughout the West.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The biggest drop in airline fares in nearly two decades slowed consumer inflation in July following two months of slightly faster gains. The Labor Department says its consumer price index rose 0.1 percent in July following increases of 0.3 percent in June and 0.4 percent in May.

NEW YORK (AP) — Actress Yvonne Craig, who played the sexy, crime-fighting Batgirl in the 1960s TV hit "Batman," has died. She was 78. Her family says Craig died Monday at her Los Angeles home of complications from breast cancer.