Two people were taken to the hospital following an afternoon crash on US 45 South. Saline County Central Dispatch received multiple 911 calls of a three vehicle crash at 2:40 p.m. on Monday afternoon.

    Someone is already in shape for her big return to prime time. Danica McKellar was spotted heading to rehearsal for Dancing With the Stars today in L.A., and she was...

    Farmworker Oscar Otzoy said he has seen an improvement in work conditions since four of the largest fast-food chains and Wal-Mart joined a program aimed at ensuring rights for Florida tomato workers, but he and his fellow workers are critical of one large

    Stars' Peverley collapses on bench, game postponed

    Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson, together again! Mariska Hargitay ran into her former Law & Order: SVU costar Christopher Meloni at an event last week and, happily, she shared...

    Start preparing your opening statements, prospective suitors! In one of reality TV's worst kept secrets, Andi Dorfman has officially been announced as the next star of The...

    The director of Gravity + the mastermind behind Lost, Star Trek, Fringe and, now, Star Wars = must-see TV? That's what we're asking you now that you've finally seen Alfonso...

    Considering Selena Gomez ended up in treatment in part to help her get over the lingering trauma caused by her breakup with Justin Bieber, the fact that her family still isn't a big fan of her...

    Guess what? Mindy Kaling is [bleeping] tired of hearing complaints and criticism claiming that her show isn't diverse enough. The funnywoman defended The Mindy Project during...

    Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson, together again! Mariska Hargitay ran into her former Law & Order: SVU costar Christopher Meloni at an event last week and, happily, she shared...

    3,000 Americans around the world renounced their citizenship last year. Meet five U.S. citizens who have given up their passports -- or are thinking about it -- to escape an overly complicated tax code.

    TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya on Monday stopped a North Korean-flagged tanker that had loaded oil from a rebel-held port, after naval forces briefly exchanged fire with the rebels, officials said.

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Monday forecast more robust economic growth in 2014 than last year and a further pickup in the economy for 2015.

    KUALA LUMPUR/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Investigators in Malaysia are voicing skepticism that the airliner that disappeared early Saturday with 239 people on board was the target of an attack, U.S. and European government sources close to the probe said.

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After discovering China-made components in the F-35 fighter jet, a Pentagon investigation has uncovered Chinese materials in other major U.S. weaponry, including Boeing Co's B-1B bomber and certain Lockheed Martin Corp F-16 fighters, the U.S. Defense Department said.

    Uninsured Americans face an important deadline at the end of this month, and many don't realize it....

    JERUSALEM (AP) -- Activists say a group of some 50 Israeli youths have sent Israel's prime minister a petition refusing to enlist for compulsory military service to protest Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories, the largest such group of objectors since 2001....

    California would become the first state to require warning labels on sodas and other sugary drinks under a proposal in the state Legislature.

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is proposing a record fine for thousands of water pollution violations by coal mine operators in five Appalachian states....

    There may be a link between weather and the risk of suffering a stroke, say researchers who analyzed climate trends and hospital records on millions of Americans.

    Seth Jones scored at 3:49 of overtime and the Nashville Predators defeated the Ottawa Senators 4-3 Monday night.

    Tennessee's Isabelle Harrison thought for a second. Teammate Cierra Burdick didn't need to think at all.

    Members of the Paducah-McCracken County Animal Shelter Task Force met for the second time on Monday to discuss how best to improve conditions.

    The New Albany-Floyd school superintendent said Monday night that students have lost the equivalent of 20 days of instruction since the holiday break because of weather-related closings and delays.

    City officials in Carbondale, Illinois unveiled the design for a new "Super Splash Park" at a public meeting on Monday.

    How did the Mongols build an empire? Tree-ring studies suggest that a run of bountiful rains gave them the resources to invade and conquer.

    Girls born unexpectedly small or underweight seem to be twice as likely to have fertility problems in adulthood as those of normal size at birth, suggests research published in the online only journal BMJ Open.

    Drinking alcohol during the first three months of pregnancy may heighten the risk of having a premature or unexpectedly small baby, suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

    Practice makes perfect, but mastery might require something more than 10,000 hours of trying.

    Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery -- especially in the predator/prey/poison cycle.In nature, bright colors are basically neon signs that scream, 'Don't eat me!' But how did prey evolve these characteristics? When did predators translate the meaning?

    BALTIMORE (AP) — Delaware guard Devon Saddler is headed to the NCAA tournament. A few years from now, the kid just might find himself working as a basketball coach.

    UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — New league, same result. It's another championship for UConn.

    LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas center Joel Embiid is expected to miss the first weekend of the NCAA tournament.

    KU's Embiid out for Big 12 tournament, start of NCAAs

    Back problems that sidelined Joel Embiid for KU's final two regular-season games will leave the talented freshman out of the Big 12 tournament as well, and likely into the NCAA tourney. Welcome to Bill Self's worst nightmare.

    As a company that draws more than 2 billion eyeballs per month, Facebook was a fitting harbinger of trends to come at an optical networking conference.The social networking goliath is lighting up its own optical fiber, deploying 100Gbps links in its data centers and looking towards emerging silicon photonics technology, Facebook Director of Technical Operations Najam Ahmad said on Monday at an Optical Society of America meeting held alongside the annual OFC (Optical Fiber Communications) Conference in San Francisco.Facebook’s challenges mirror those of other enterprises and data center operators, with fast-growing data traffic and rapidly evolving network needs, but with 1.2 billion active monthly users, it’s facing those issues sooner than some. Though his company is unique in some ways, Ahmad’s comments in an on-stage interview may shed some light on the future of connectivity.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

    Intel could soon bring to market a faster version of its Thunderbolt connector technology with a throughput of 50Gbps, but the company is biding its time until there is a need for faster connectors.Thunderbolt technology connects computers to peripherals like external hard drives at much faster speeds than USB 3.0. Thunderbolt ports are found in Macs and select Windows PCs, but are more expensive than USB technology, which is found in most PCs that ship today.The latest iteration, Thunderbolt 2, transfers data at 20Gbps (bits per second). Intel is researching how to speed up Thunderbolt, but the company could potentially develop and deploy a faster connector for PCs based on silicon photonics technology, which combines silicon components with optical networking, said Mario Paniccia, Intel fellow and general manager of silicon photonics operations.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

    After more than a decade of research, Intel’s new connector that uses light as a speedy way to shuffle data between computers is finally ready to replace slower copper cables.The MXC optical cables will be first implemented at the rack level and use light and lasers to move data between servers, storage, networking and other computing resources. The cables will transfer data at speeds of up to 1.6Tbps (bits per second), outpacing the throughput on copper cables used for networking in data centers.The cables are based on Intel’s silicon photonics technology, which combines optical networking with silicon components. Component company U.S. Conec is now shipping MXC parts, paving the way for distributors to sell cables to server makers and data center companies. Corning, Tyco Electronics and Molex will sell MXC cables.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

    Microsoft said Monday that its productivity-enhancing Surface Power Cover will begin shipping in a few days—and the extra battery life will cost you a couple hundred bucks.Specifically, the Power Cover will cost $199 when it begins shipping on March 19, according to a Microsoft Store listing. The keyboard accessory will work with the Surface 2, the Surface Pro, and the Surface Pro 2.Like the name suggests, the Power Cover includes a secondary battery, designed to extend the tablet’s battery life further. A spokesman for Microsoft declined to specify the exact capacity of the onboard battery, but the Microsoft product page says that it will weigh in at 0.55 pounds. It will also lack the back-lit keys that the other Surface keyboards include.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

    AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden says he has no regrets about revealing the agency's mass surveillance program....

    Floods that washed out rural roads in central Montana left hundreds of people stranded on Monday and forced the evacuation of 30 homes in one small town, as forecasts predicted more rain and snow that could worsen conditions in the region. Floods also threatened to inundate three towns in north-central Wyoming where vast ice formations blocked the flow of the Bighorn River and caused it to spill from its banks. In Montana, a network of dirt roads linking rural Montana neighborhoods and ranches outside of Roundup were submerged in water or washed out by Monday, making them impassable, said Tara Gates, volunteer with the Musselshell County Disaster and Emergency Services. Governor Steve Bullock declared a flood emergency, allowing him to mobilize Montana National Guard troops and direct other resources to affected communities, and local authorities scrambled to devise plans to deliver food and supplies to an estimated 400 people who were cut off by the flooding.

    By Tom Ramstack and Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading District of Columbia businessman pleaded guilty on Monday to violating campaign finance laws in a case that has tarnished the U.S. capital's Democratic mayor and overshadowed his bid for a second term. Federal prosecutors had accused Jeffrey Thompson, once a major government contractor, of running a "shadow campaign" that funneled more than $660,000 through friends and relatives to Washington Mayor Vincent Gray's successful 2010 campaign, breaking campaign laws that forbid contributions of more than $25,000 by one person. "Mr. Gray agreed to keep Mr. Thompson's fundraising secret," Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Atkinson said. "The things that I've heard today are fabricated." Under the plea bargain Thompson reached with prosecutors, the U.S. Department of Justice agreed to waive the penalty for a heavier federal charge of conspiracy to violate federal campaign finance laws and submitting false filings to the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for his guilty plea and cooperation with the government.

    When Katheryn Deprill was just hours old, her mother left her on the bathroom floor of an Allentown, Pa. Burger King.

    His attorney and longtime friend Dennis Holahan says he died Monday at a hospital in Worcester, Mass., of complications related to prostate cancer.

    With their abs aglow, the fighters of "300: Rise of an Empire" dominated the box office with $45 million in the movie's opening weekend.

    Ukrainians in the Kherson province just north of Crimea say Russian operatives have moved into the territory, an incursion which, if true, could show Vladimir Putin has more than just the Black Sea peninsula in his sights.

    TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Libyan officials said that government forces on Monday took over a North Korean-flagged oil tanker docked at a terminal held by a regional militia, where it had been attempting to load oil. The militia, however, denied the government had taken the ship....

    SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- Authorities in El Salvador began the final count of votes Monday in a presidential runoff whose razor-close margin led the conservative challenger to announce his party is on "a war footing" to challenge alleged fraud....

    New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has announced plans for a referendum on whether to change the national flag.

    KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Russia said Monday it is drafting counterproposals to a U.S. plan for a negotiated solution to the Ukraine crisis, denouncing the new Western-backed government as an unacceptable "fait accompli" and claiming that Russian-leaning parts of the country have been plunged into lawlessness....