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Tornadoes swept through two North Texas towns after dark, tearing apart brick houses and knocking out power in a path of destruction that left three dead and 10 injured, officials said Wednesday.

Tourists and townsfolk alike are dancing to the beats of the Jazz Festival in New Orleans. It's the first major music festival in the city since Hurricane Katrina struck last year. So far, ticket sales have been brisk.

Only a handful of survivors gathered in San Francisco on April 18th to remember the earthquake that almost leveled and the resulting fires that burned the rest in 1906. James Dalessandro spent seven

Immigration law protests continue around the country, even as the Senate bill to change the law is stalled in Congress. Marches over the weekend took place in many cities, including Dallas, San Diego and Miami. More are planned for Monday, including a large rally in Washington, D.C.

Across the country this weekend, thousands marched in cities like Dallas, St. Paul and Des Moines to demand legalization for undocumented immigrants. On Monday, hundreds of thousands are expected to protest in more than sixty cities.

The west Baghdad neighborhood of Amiriya is one of the city's most dangerous. There are daily sectarian killings, which has included people being pulled off buses and shot, others burned alive in their homes. Residents are gathering arms, and new militias have sprung up.

Do human beings have a moral responsibility to reduce global warming? Host Tom Fudge speaks to Professors Dale Jamieson and Darrel Moellendorf about the biggest producers of greenhouse gases, the lon

opens with Clive Owen's aspiring bank robber Dalton Russell talking directly to the audience and urging them to pay attention because he won't repeat himself. He then lays out the who (that would be him), what (a daring robbery), where (downtown Manhattan), and when (real soon) of a crime he's about to commit. But how's he going to pull it off? Well, like the Bard said, 'there in lies the rub.' Or does it. Dalton implies that there's uncertainty or difficulty involved in this crime yet we quickly discover, that he has every angle covered and may be in the process of pulling off that elusive perfect crime.

Ray Meyer, the basketball coach whose 42-year tenure at DePaul stretched from George Mikan to Mark Aguirre, died Friday at age 92. The timing of his passing is poignant, coming as the NCAA basketball tournament goes into full swing.

A government panel issues preliminary findings about why New Orleans' levees failed after Hurricane Katrina. The 800-page report concludes that the disaster wasn't due to faulty work by the Corps or anyone else. That's at odds with conclusions reached by two other independent teams.