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  • Updated map calls for heavier rain fall
    Weather Service advises isolated amounts of 15" of rain will be possible!
    A significant and life-threatening heavy rainfall event will unfold over eastern Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas early this week.A slow moving upper storm…
  • Young-min Kwon of Massachusetts General Hospital holds the metal-alloy ball of Susy Mansfield's faulty artificial hip joint. The yellowish tissue on top is dead muscle caused by a reaction to the metal debris produced by the defective hip implant.
    Prone To Failure, Some All-Metal Hip Implants Need To Be Removed Early
    Shavings of metal can flake off of the artificial joints and cause serious pain and medical problems in the hip. About a half-million Americans have this type of implant, and though most patients won't have a problem, one doctor called the failure rate "unacceptably high."
  • Florida's Gov. Rick Scott, seen here speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington last month, says of Medicaid, "It is absolutely not sustainable. If we do nothing, this line will bankrupt our state."
    Florida Challenges Medicaid Spending 'By Force'
    When the Supreme Court hears arguments over President Obama's health care law next week, one item on the table will be a program that has been in place for nearly 50 years: Medicaid. The program is already a sore issue in Florida, which is one of the states fighting the health care law.
  • JBI CEO John Bordynuik holds a jar of No. 6 fuel oil, derived from discarded plastic like that seen on a conveyor belt at his plant.
    Startup Converts Plastic To Oil, And Finds A Niche
    Only 7 percent of plastic waste in the United States is recycled each year, according to the EPA. A startup company in Niagara Falls says it can increase that amount and reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil at the same time.
  • Jesse Cohen and Eric Emm of Tanlines.
    Tanlines: Grown-Up Problems, With A Beat
    On its highly danceable debut, the Brooklyn duo reasons that growing older often means accepting a certain level of uncertainty.
  • More tablets and smartphones mean more ways to consume news, a Pew study found. Last week the new iPad went on sale at the flagship Apple Store in New York City.
    Do Digital Gadgets Increase Our Appetite For News?
    More than twice as many people read news recommended on Facebook than on Twitter, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. One in four Americans now gets their news digitally from mobile devices.
  • 911 Tapes Raise Questions In Fla. Teen's Shooting
    Police in Florida have released recordings of 911 calls from the night Trayvon Martin was killed. The unarmed black teenager was visiting his father outside Orlando when he was shot by a white neighborhood watch volunteer. George Zimmerman says it was self-defense, but Martin's relatives say the 911 tapes paint a very different picture. They want federal authorities to take over the investigation.
  • Afghanistan Shooting Suspect Held In Kansas Prison
    Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the alleged shooter in last week's attacks on Afghan civilians, has been transferred to a military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. A complicated picture of his life — in the Army and back home near Tacoma, Wash. — is still emerging.
  • Young people walk away from the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school, on Monday in Toulouse, southwestern France, where at least four people (three of them children) were killed and one seriously wounded when a gunman opened fire. It was the third gun attack in a week by a man who fled on a motorbike.
    Killings At School In France Follow Earlier Murders Of Soldiers
    Authorities say a gunman killed at least four people outside a Jewish school. One was a rabbi who taught Yiddish there. Two were his young sons. The fourth was a young girl. Last week, a gunman killed three French soldiers in the same part of France.
  • Flooding expected in eastern Oklahoma. Flood Watch effective later today
    A significant and life-threatening heavy rainfall event will unfold over eastern Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas early this week. A slow moving upper…
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