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WINFIELD, Mo. - The swollen Mississippi River burst another levee Tuesday, submerging farmland and threatening a residential area whose occupants had already moved out in anticipation of a flood.

The new field of genetic genealogy uses DNA to trace ancestry back hundreds of years, sometimes surprising customers with unlikely relatives. Lesley Stahl reports.

NEW YORK - A cover model for European Vogue has fallen to her death from her Manhattan apartment building in an apparent suicide. The New York Post and Newsday say 20-year-old Ruslana Korshunova died Saturday afternoon in the Financial District. The newspapers cited unnamed officials and police.

Crystal Wooten BIRMINGHAM – Crystal Wooten, 16, died Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at her home. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Hodges-Serenity Funeral Home of Oxford.

Electile Dysfunction Radio Music Theatre has tackled the wild and wacky political season with this funny play, which is full of characters as kooky as the past few months have been. Writer/director Steve Farrell knows just how to put things into perspective. His silly show features the Jones family …

A confidential witness told investigators that Demario Atwater admitted that he and Laurence Lovette Jr. entered Eve Carson’s home through an open door on March 5 and forced her into her car, according to search warrants made public today.

Après l’iPod, le créateur de la station Genesis pour iPod lance le SoundFrane, une station audio conçue pour l’iTouch. Il est doté de deux hauts parleurs stéréo 2×2 watts. Il offre un design original qui permet de placer le terminal à l’horizontale ou à la verticale. Le SoundFrame est livré avec une housse dotée de poches de rangement, un adaptateur secteur et un compartiment à piles (5 heures …

Two of America’s oldest agricultural companies laid the foundation for a new $30 billion-a-year agriculture and food colossus Monday with the announcement that Bunge Ltd. is buying Corn Products International Inc. in a $4.4 billion stock deal.

AFP Imaging Corporation (OTCBB: AFPC.OB) is proud to announce that Brian D. Jaffe has been named Executive Vice President of Marketing for the Company. Mr. Jaffe has over 15 years of senior level marketing experience with dental and medical devices that are based on emerging technologies.

Winning entries in the now-returned Caption Competition. Motorcyclists and Bunny take part in Austria’s fund-raising Toy Run. But what’s being said? The competition is now closed.