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A week of coverage from New Orleans to explore what residents and business leaders are thinking about the future of their city begins with visits to a woman at an Algiers church, a husband and wife cleaning up in Saint Bernard Parish and a Holocaust survivor. They are not sure if to stay or leave the city they love.

Few towns face a bigger decision next week than Albion. That’s when voters will decide whether neighboring Marshall should permanently absorb Albion’s…

A couple in England feared their dog had cancer. A scan showed a mass on her spleen. The vet went in to do surgery, only to find it was a mass of teddy bears in the dog's stomach, the BBC says.

President Bush expresses continued faith in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and offers a hopeful outlook on Iraq, despite some setbacks. Bush made the comments in his year-end news conference. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

Film director Alfred Hitchcock was a master of suspense. A new book, Hitchcock's Music, by Jack Sullivan, examines the music in his films and how it conveys emotion in ways images cannot.

Kalamazoo has its first new mayor in 12 years. Voters picked City Commissioner David Anderson to replace outgoing Mayor Bobby Hopewell on Tuesday,…

The bodywide inflammation known as sepsis kills about 300,000 people in U.S. hospitals each year. Promising treatments have come and gone, warn skeptical doctors, who call for rigorous research.

Murdoch threatened to sue the Australian news site Crikey over a column connecting him to rhetoric on Fox News ahead of the Jan. 6 siege at the U.S. Capitol. Crikey's response? Bring it on.

University leaders are under pressure to comply with federal executive orders and policy changes or risk losing federal funding. Some college presidents say that makes their jobs more challenging.

Violinist Lana Trotovsek, a Slovenia-born Londoner, made her U.S. orchestral debut with the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra in its season-opening concert…