AP - Federal border agents say they will search for illegal immigrants at inland Texas checkpoints even during a hurricane evacuation, a plan state and local officials say could lead to disastrous delays and discourage some people from getting out.

AP - A former Army Corps of Engineers consultant and a dirt subcontractor were indicted Thursday on bribery charges stemming from an investigation into levee work after Hurricane Katrina.

AP - The state will take over an effort to collect grant money from Hurricane Katrina victims who got too much, citing a lack of confidence in a private contractor's ability to determine who owes money, a Louisiana official said Thursday.

AP - Josue Vega was one of thousands of immigrant workers who flocked to New Orleans in 2005 in hopes of finding a rebuilding job in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

First time human illness has been linked to dry dog food.

Safety of toys and child care products stressed.

Statewide average shoots past $4 in Alaska, Connecticut.

Toyota slashes Prius incentives, jacks up price as demand jumps.

Diversion of corn to biofuel blamed for record feed prices.

In high bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center, a crane lowers space shuttle Discovery toward the external tank and solid rocket boosters already stacked on the mobile launcher platform

(AP) - Children swing on a playground in Frankfurt, central Germany, on a sunny Sunday, May 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

(AFP/DDP) - Driving through rapeseed : A car seems to drive in the middle of a rapeseed field near Bautzen, in the eastern German state of Saxony. (AFP/DDP/Norbert Millauer)

(AP) - A gosling looks for food in front of a plastic coyote posted as a scarecrow on a lawn, in Tewksbury, Mass., Thursday, May 15, 2008. The plastic model is designed to scare away geese and keep them off the lawn, but appeared to have little effect on the young bird. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)

(Reuters) - A young boy plays in Lake Malawi about 100 kilometers east of the capital Lilongwe,May 14,2008.REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko (Malawi)

(Reuters) - Surfer Kelly Slater of the U.S rides a wave during the third round of competition in the Billabong Pro surfing tournament on the legendary reef break in Teahupoo, Tahiti, May 14, 2008. REUTERS/Joseba Etxaburu (FRENCH POLYNESIA)

(AP) - Yves Rossy, known as the 'Fusion Man,' flies with a jet-powered single wing over the Alps in Bex, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 14, 2008. Some people go fishing on their day off. Yves Rossy likes to jump out of a small plane with a pair of jet-powered wings and perform figure eights above the Swiss Alps. The revolutionary human flying machine comes after five years of training and many more years of dreaming. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

(AFP) - Rainy Sofia : A silhouette of a man with an umbella is pictured through a rainy window while he passes the golden-domed Alexander Nevsky cathedral in Sofia. (AFP/Boryana Katsarova)

(AP) - Tulips are in full blossom at the Statehouse in Montpelier, Vt., Tuesday, May 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

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A German tourist and a 52-year-old man were rescued Saturday _ nearly five days after being buried by a powerful earthquake that ravaged China's Sichuan province, state media reported. The news comes as authorities prepare for the daunting task of housing and...

Barack Obama laid into John McCain on Friday for advancing a tough-guy foreign policy that he called "naive and irresponsible," serving notice that he's ready to launch a full-throttle challenge to the Republican presidential contender on international...

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The New Jersey State Museum?s main building reopens in Trenton on Saturday after four years of renovation, but appeals for celebration are premature.

?Here?s the Thing: The Single Object Still Life? is a visually and philosophically engaging exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art.

?Who?s Afraid of Jasper Johns?,? a group show at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in Chelsea, is the latest proof that you don?t have to be a museum to shake things up.

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