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An agreement announced Friday will lead to a 3D digital recording of Mount Rushmore National Memorial useful for public education or to replicate the carving if it's ever damaged.

After last year's 30th anniversary reunion of the TV show Dallas at Southfork Ranch was marred by poor planning and pricey tickets promising access to the stars that never occurred, the actors vowed to be more careful about any future events.

A nonprofit group in Dayton has offered to take over management of Fort Ancient, a prehistoric Indian site in southwest Ohio.

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International Musical Arts Institute's 'Northward Bound' Summer Chamber Concert at St.

Marie Hale and some of her closest associates have shelved their hopes of reviving Ballet Florida in favor of opening a new dance school unaffiliated with the financially crippled company.

Four leaders in Lee County have been selected to lead the Harry Chapin Food Bank Board of Directors for the 2009-2010 period.

The owner of a New Orleans T-shirt shop said the grassroots movement to elect actor Brad Pitt as the city's next mayor is sounding "less and less crazy." Josh Harvey, owner of shirt shop Storyville, said the first "Brad Pitt for Mayor" T-shirt was made by a Tulane University professor who invited the store to use his design, WSDU-TV, New Orleans, ...

Kentucky Auditor Crit Luallen says her office is planning to review the spending habits of two state associations that help counties and cities.

The author of a study to be published in the next issue of the medical journal Lancet said swine flu could devastate indigenous populations around the world due to their sensitivity to infectious disease.

So Katie Holmes thinks she can dance - and in few weeks, she'll display her moves before a discriminating audience.

Gettysburg National Cemetery in Pennsylvania will be a sea of red, white and blue this July 4. A non-profit group plans to mark the holiday by placing bouquets of flowers at thousands of graves at the historic veterans cemetery in south-central Pennsylvania.

Facebook is streamlining its complicated privacy controls to give its millions of members more control over what photos, comments and personal details they share with friends, family and strangers on Facebook and beyond.

International Aid is shutting down today amid financial struggles, according to the charity based in Spring Lake.

The Brad Pitt for Mayor Campaign is picking up steam. WDSU NewsChannel 6 has learned there's a movement in the Crescent City trying to get the actor elected.

After all the officials took turns explaining a plan to end a bedbug infestation in an apartment building where mostly refugees live, Michel Ndayavugwi simply pointed to the young boy dozing in a chair in the back of the room.

Claudia Folsom is steaming mad. Someone stole the tools Habitat for Humanity volunteers have been using to help bring the Echota neighborhood of Niagara Falls back to life, according to Folsom, the group's president.

Sgt. Eric Fraley is 7,500 miles away, at a military base in Afghanistan. But on Sunday night the Marine was in the room at Kapi'olani Medical Center when his first child was being born, coaching his wife through breathing techniques, thanks to video conferencing technology.

It's time for the nation's annual obesity rankings and, outside of fairly lean Colorado, there's little good news.

A sum of $50,000 in recent pledges, including $30,000 promised by Gov. Bill Richardson on Monday, will help a Las Cruces nonprofit center that aids homeless children avoid a temporary closure, officials at the center said.