Image of Jupiter's moon, as seen by the New Horizons spacecraft. A huge volcanic eruption plume is visible at the north pole of the moon.

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OAKLAND — A highway ramp shut down by the collapse of an overpass near the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge won't have to be rebuilt from scratch and could reopen within 10 days, the governor said Wednesday.

The ramp connecting two interstate highways was blocked Sunday morning when a burning tanker truck brought down the overpass. Crews finished clearing debris from the collapse Tuesday.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said the ramp connecting westbound Interstate 80 to southbound Interstate 880 could be fully open to traffic in as little as seven days and as many as 10.

"Progress on repairing the collapsed freeway connectors is moving at lightning speed," he said.

A spacecraft flying toward the dwarf planet Pluto has harvested an extraordinary crop of new science data and images as it flew past giant Jupiter and is now on a direct course toward its goal 3 billion miles from Earth.

Scientists staffing the New Horizons mission to Pluto spoke this week of their "amazing discoveries" and their "incredible luck" that instruments aboard the speeding craft were capturing and sending back so many unsuspected details of the Jovian neighborhood.

The instruments revealed unexpected details on Jupiter's gaseous surface of a violent and relatively new storm system 10 miles across that they call the "Little Red Spot," where winds are blowing at 450 mph.

Also sent back were images of a huge plume of volcanic dust rising 200 miles high from a giant volcano erupting near the north pole of the Jovian moon called Io. And as the spacecraft took pictures of Io in the darkness of Jupiter's shadow, it captured an entire panoply of brilliantly glowing red hot lava vents from scores of other volcanoes on what scientists believe is by far the most dynamic object in the entire solar system.

JANESVILLE — A couple checking out a house for sale were shocked to discover the 55-year-old homeowner dead in her bed. Authorities said foul play was not suspected.

Real estate agent Linda Chabucos-Galow stood in the dining room while Justin and Colleen McKeen walked through a house Monday night. Before long, she heard Colleen McKeen scream.

"I thought, 'What's wrong?' Maybe it was a dead mouse or something," Chabucos-Galow said.

But then she peered into the bedroom and saw the body of Linda L. O'Leary.

An autopsy determined O'Leary had been dead for two to three weeks, Rock County Coroner Jenifer Keach said.

HARTFORD — The state House on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill to require all hospitals to offer rape victims emergency contraception, over objections from Catholic leaders who say it infringes on their religious rights.

The legislation, which passed the Democrat-controlled Senate last week, now moves to Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell. The governor said she was inclined to support it but would not decide until she saw the bill.

The 113-36 vote in the Demo-cratic-controlled House came after a three-hour debate and over protests from Catholic hospitals and church leaders in the state who say the measure forces them to violate their beliefs. The Catholic Church teaches that life begins at conception.

The emergency contraception, known as Plan B, is a concentrated dose of the same drug found in many regular birth-control pills. Taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex, a woman can lower the risk of pregnancy by up to 89 percent.

HAMILTON — The family of a woman who died in a fire was given the wrong body, and was not notified of the error until a friend noticed the body was being exhumed.

Butler County Coroner Richard Burkhardt said Wednesday his office took responsibility for the mix-up.

He said authorities were waiting for the body to be exhumed for a positive identification before notifying relatives.

The bodies of the two women were correctly identified in body bags waiting to be picked up at the morgue, but apparently nobody looked at the IDs before releasing the body of fire victim Deborah Reed, 52.

The coroner's office accidentally released the body of Paula Webb, 23, who died of a probable drug overdose, Burkhardt said.