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Southeast braces for Hanna as Ike strengthens
Some Southeastern states declared emergencies and officials urged residents to head inland Thursday as Tropical Storm Hanna headed toward the Atlantic coast, where it could bring high winds and rain from South Carolina to Maine.
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Detroit mayor, soon off to jail, talks of comeback
Only hours after agreeing to resign and serve time in jail as part of plea deal, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick expressed regret for the scandal that has engulfed the city - and left the door open for a return to public life.
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Philly school rekindles same-sex education debate
Calling all ninth-grade boys! Raise your hand if this school sounds like fun: wearing jackets and ties every day, staying until 5 p.m., learning Latin and - to top it all off - no girls.
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San Francisco delays rollout of ID card program
San Francisco is delaying a controversial program that would provide identification cards to all residents regardless of legal status.
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Remains of 3 sailors from Pearl Harbor identified
Two-thirds of a century ago, Kathleen Wyman drove her brother to California to join the Navy. From there, he shipped out to the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor.
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FEMA to cover hotel costs for some Gustav evacuees
Victims of Hurricane Gustav who can't return to their homes over the next month because of storm damage or power outages can have their hotel costs covered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, officials said Thursday.
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Americans get to know once-obscure Alaska governor
Doug Watts, a painter from Phoenix, watched in spite of himself. There was Sarah Palin on television, and he found himself mesmerized.
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Judge sentences Jonesboro shooter to 4 years
A man who as a teen helped shoot and kill five people in a schoolyard ambush was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison on an unrelated federal weapons charge.
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Prisons scramble to make digital TV switch
The big switch to digital TV has prison officials scrambling to keep one of the most important peacekeeping tools in prisons across the nation - broadcast television.
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Woman dubbed Al-Qaida backer skips NY arraignment
An American-educated Pakistani woman who's been labeled an al-Qaida supporter refused to appear in federal court Thursday to answer charges that she tried to kill U.S. soldiers and FBI agents after they detained her this summer in Afghanistan.
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Tracking HannaMeteorologists have been tracking Hanna, which has been a tropical storm and a hurricane.
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Gustav: The path of destructionView Hurricane Gustav's path of destruction.
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Gustav-Katrina ComparisonSee a timeline comparing the two hurricanes.
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N.C. Drought Maps Time Lapse AnimationView a time lapse animation of drought conditions since April of 2007.
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Raleigh Convention Center InteractiveThe Grand Opening of the new Raleigh Convention Center is Sept. 5 and 6.
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