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The fate of a move to allow hearsay evidence in court is being decided in Chicago, Ill. The namesake of the so-called "Drew's law," Drew Peterson, stands accused of murdering his third wife and is a suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife.

The packed legislative agenda of 2009 left little room for immigration issues. But members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus plan to make it a priority in 2010.

The president has picked Dr. Regina Benjamin, a rural Alabama family physician who made headlines with her fierce determination to rebuild her nonprofit medical clinic in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Talking about death makes many of us uncomfortable. NPR's Life Kit offers tips for starting an advance directive to prepare for a good death. (Story aired on All Things Considered on July, 12, 2020.)

Four U.S. states on the Mexican border will share a troop force of 1,200 for a yearlong deployment to begin Aug. 1. President Obama decided in May to bolster border security. Drug-related violence has escalated in Mexico.

Tim Burton's new special-effects laden adaptation of Alice in Wonderland turns Lewis Carroll's classic into an action-packed, feminist coming-of-age story. Film critic David Edelstein says the movie, starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Mia Wasikowska in the title role, is rather wonderful.

Underdog Butler surprised Big East power Syracuse in the men's national basketball tournament Thursday. In other games, West Virginia defeated Washington, Kansas State beat Xavier in double overtime and Kentucky hung on against tenacious Cornell.

Like many other parts of the country, the Quad Cities region of Illinois and Iowa has weathered some tough patches in the housing market. But real estate agents are reporting increased sales in recent months and the median price of a single-family home jumped in the first quarter of the year.

Rock historian Ed Ward remembers the Detroit label Westbound Records, which recorded early funk, disco and gospel in the 1970s.

The Senate votes overwhelmingly to block funding to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, pledging to keep a tight rein on the purse strings until President Obama announces details of what will be done with the 240 detainees being held there.