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Dolly hits near South Padre Island
23 Jul 2008 at 6:17pm

Hurricane Dolly made landfall near the Texas-Mexico border Wednesday as a Category 2 storm, bringing fierce winds and heavy rains that knocked out electricity to thousands.

After 60 years, black officers rare
23 Jul 2008 at 9:30am

Sixty years after President Truman desegregated the military, senior black officers are still rare, particularly among the highest ranks.

A wake-up call from Afghanistan
23 Jul 2008 at 8:23am
Growing number of casualties and the resurgence of the Taliban and its anti-American allies has prompted vows by President Bush and his aspiring successors to send more U.S. troops to the country.
Collision forces closure of Mississippi River
23 Jul 2008 at 3:30pm

The Coast Guard closed 29 miles of the Mississippi River at New Orleans after a 600-foot tanker and a barge loaded with fuel oil collided, breaking the barge in half.

AIDS among Latinos on rise
23 Jul 2008 at 7:01am

AIDS rates in the nation's Latino community are increasing and, with little notice, have reached what experts are calling a simmering public health crisis.

Migrant worker becomes brain surgeon
23 Jul 2008 at 1:51pm

Two decades ago, Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa used his hands to pick vegetables for $22 a day; now he's one of the world's best brain surgeons. TODAY?s Bob Dotson reports on how a laborer went from a California field to a lab at Johns Hopkins Medical Center.

Woman attacked by bear, drives for help
23 Jul 2008 at 6:16pm
A woman walking her two dogs in southern California was attacked and severely injured by a bear.
Woman in pregnant teen death was obsessed
23 Jul 2008 at 7:09am
A woman accused of slicing open a pregnant woman?s belly and taking her baby was obsessed with getting an infant and even had hallucinations of hearing babies cry.
Traffic deaths fall as gas prices climb
22 Jul 2008 at 9:41pm
Rising prices at the gas pump appear to be having at least one positive effect: Traffic deaths around the country are plummeting, just as they did during the Arab oil embargo three decades ago.
Police: Mom's car smelled of 'decomposition'
23 Jul 2008 at 12:01am

The mother of a missing 2-year-old is a person of interest in a case that is beginning to look like a homicide, prosecutors said Tuesday.

FEMA seeks immunity from trailer suits
23 Jul 2008 at 12:57am

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is requesting immunity from lawsuits filed on behalf of Gulf Coast hurricane victims.

Grand jury indicts sect members
23 Jul 2008 at 12:42am

A grand jury in Texas indicted polygamist leader Warren Jeffs and five other members of the sect raided in April.

Few agencies address cop suicides
22 Jul 2008 at 6:32pm
Experts estimate that only 2 percent to 10 percent of the 18,000 police departments nationwide actively work to prevent suicides within their ranks.

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