As the price of oil and natural gas soars, many customers are looking to coal as an alternative fuel. That means a boon for suppliers -- and a potential bane for the environment.

The Montanan is among the few U.S. attorneys who may survive all eight years under Bush, despite brushes with scandal.

In a victory for Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, the Iraqi Accordance Front comes back a year after quitting the Shiite-led government.

Some smell a cover-up in Winnfield, La., which is no stranger to scandal. Police shocked Baron Pikes nine times in 14 minutes.

A month after the devastating floods, effort are underway to clear out downtown and reopen businesses. A Quaker Oats factory is among the first. But more than 2,000 homes will never be rebuilt.

Regions around Las Vegas, Phoenix, Denver, Albuquerque and Salt Lake City need federal help to cope with rapid changes and skirt California's pitfalls, a think tank concludes.

Also, a hide-the-homeless problem for the Democratic National Convention; and John McCain's chat with a rookie reporter.

Benedict XVI is in the country for a week to celebrate World Youth Day. Sex abuse victims' advocates say his remarks are inadequate.

Zimbabwe opposition may agree to talks with Mugabe / No winner in first Nepal presidential vote / No end to Cambodian-Thai dispute in sight / Rev. Sun Myung Moon hurt in helicopter crash / Detached fo

Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) has proposed casting ballots on weekends to facilitate voter turnout.

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The environment is a central issue at the annual conference.

Fish in Lake Michigan are found to have viral hemorrhagic septicemia, known as 'fish Ebola,' weeks after the virus was discovered in Wisconsin and Ohio, leading to fears of major fish kills.

The corpse may be that of pregnant 18-year-old Kia Johnson. It was found in the apartment of a Pennsylvania woman who had shown up at a hospital with a newborn determined not to be hers.

California jobless rate: An article in Saturday's Section A about California's June unemployment statistics used percentages in quantifying job losses of varying types. The statistics should have been rendered in terms of thousands of jobs lost. Therefore, the number of government workers fell by 6,000, not 6%; professional and business positions declined by 5,200, not 5.2%; manufacturing jobs fell by 4,400, not 4.4%; and the information sector declined by 2,600 jobs, not 2.6%. Retail trade positions dropped by 2,500, not 2.5%.

He is alleged to have given a false name and Social Security number to avoid paying a bill at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale.

In the weeklong hunt, a team of expert mountaineers and athletes found no sign of the missing adventurer or his plane but eliminated miles of rugged terrain from areas that still must be scoured.

What Maliki said

The statement, from the Shiite militia that claimed to have kidnapped five Britons a year ago, could not be immediately verified.

Police have arrested a suspect in the heist of two Pablo Picasso prints from a museum in Sao Paulo and recovered one of the works, police and a museum official said Saturday.

The vessel, in 600 pieces, was found in a tomb next to Giza's Great Pyramid and is believed to have been meant to ferry in the afterlife the pharoah who had the pyramid built.