Victory within reach, President Barack Obama exhorted House Democrats on Saturday to stay true to their party's legacy and make history by bringing health insurance to millions of struggling families now left out. Leaders exuded confidence as they defused thorny problems in the countdown to a landmark vote.
Authorities evacuated hundreds of people after a volcano erupted beneath a glacier in southern Iceland, Iceland's civil protection agency said Sunday.
Victory within reach, President Barack Obama exhorted House Democrats on Saturday to stay true to their party's legacy and make history by bringing health insurance to millions of struggling families now left out. Leaders exuded confidence as they defused thorny problems in the countdown to a landmark vote.
International Paper Co. says it is investigating what caused one worker to lose consciousness and two others to be taken to the hospital during a maintenance shutdown at its Georgetown mill.
Another eventful day at the NCAA tournament is in the books, with Northern Iowa stunning overall No. 1 seed Kansas, 10th-seeded Saint Mary's knocking off second-seeded Villanova, and 11th-seeded Washington easily handling third-seeded New Mexico.
Leading by one against the colossus of the bracket, Ali Farokhmanesh stood at the 3-point line, no one around. The prudent play? Pull it out, burn some clock.
The elderly Texas billionaire who married Anna Nicole Smith in the last year of his life never intended to leave the former stripper any portion of his vast fortune, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
During Buddhist monk Ly Van Aggadipo's final days, he wrote often in a notebook. Temple followers knew the nonagenarian spiritual mentor to many local Cambodian refugees was recording some sort of personal history, but they weren't sure what.

The air is warmer and blossoms like the ones on this Bradford pear tree on Orangeburg’s Fischer Street are in full bloom, all telltale signs of spring’s Saturday arrival. It is welcome after a cold, wet winter.
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A difference of interpretation over state law is at the heart of a local woman’s disagreement with the Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office.
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The Orangeburg man charged with making a bomb threat against the county courthouse earlier this week was released after a bond hearing Friday.
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“I’ve been here since 1973, and we haven’t been rained out yet,” says Elloree Training Center owner and trainer Franklin “Goree” Smith.
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