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The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, home of the Indy 500, is celebrating its 100th birthday. A historian for the speedway says the loop has outlived most of the nation's ballparks.

The upcoming Oregon and Kentucky primaries are near perfect illustrations of the two separate wings of the Democratic Party. Affluent, green and antiwar Oregon is expected to support Illinois Sen. Barack Obama. Kentucky's rural, blue-collar population will help New York Sen. Hillary Clinton.

For the first time in years, people in America are buying a little less gasoline. Analysts say it may be a sign that high prices and a slowing economy are beginning to change people's driving habits. So far in 2008, consumption has fallen about half a percent.

Rescuers fought high winds and altitude sickness as survivors faced a second night outside in freezing weather after strong earthquakes left more than 600 dead and 9,000 hurt in a mountainous area of western China.

The Atlantic and Gulf coasts face a 69 percent risk of being buffeted by a major storm in the coming months, according to researchers at Colorado State University. That's ominous news for U.S. communities still recovering from major hurricanes in 2005 and '08. The report also warns that the Caribbean — including earthquake-stricken Haiti — is vulnerable.

Survivors and families who lost loved ones in the June 2015 attack said the FBI's negligence allowed Dylann Roof to buy the gun he used in the attack.

The Federal Trade Commission says sales in 2020 were up slightly, and analysts say the increase was due to the coronavirus pandemic. But the gain looks unlikely to represent a long-term trend.

There isn't currently a Lyme disease vaccine on the U.S. market. Researchers are hoping to change that.

Roger Smith's South African thriller is horrific to read, yet impossible to put down, says reviewer Martha Woodroof. Smith is also a screenwriter, and it shows in his pacing and construction; his short, fast-moving scenes tumble one on top of another in this haunting narrative of violence and survival.

Each year, students at Dartmouth Medical School honor the people who donated their bodies to science for use as cadavers... and learn more about the lives those donors led. Susan Keese of Vermont Public Radio attended this year's ceremony.