Court set to hear challenge to feds' care of wild horses - AZCentral.com
WASHINGTON - Americans were outraged two years ago when federal officials threatened to kill more than 10,000 wild mustangs running free throughout the West. So when Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced last fall that the Obama administration had

Seniors pinched by rising costs for home care - MSNBC
WATERBURY, Conn. - Rising property taxes, failing eyesight and even a tumble that cracked her tailbone haven't forced 89-year-old Angeline DiBeneditto from the home she's had for more than six decades. Now, though, changes in a Connecticut program

Home Value Highwire - WTOP Radio
WASHINGTON - It's supposed to be a home buyers market. The $8,000 home buyer tax credit is still available. There's low interest rates and lower home prices. So why aren't more homes selling? In part, you can blame the rise of foreclosures. Typically

Detroit wants to save itself by shrinking - San Francisco Chronicle
Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields and farmland that existed before

MIT’s levered wheelchair extends freedom to Third World - Boston Globe
Some students go to MIT to plumb the mysteries of the atom, or of outer space, or to press the limits of computer science. Amos Winter went another way: He’s trying to revolutionize the wheelchair. Specifically, he wants to make that most familiar

Where will John Wall fit in? - CNN Sports Illustrated
Barring some unforeseen circumstance, it appears Kentucky freshman point guard John Wall will become the NBA's next No. 1 draft pick. Combine that with a look at the projected lottery teams, and, with a few exceptions, a personnel shuffling will be