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Millions of people use Twitter to post short updates about what they're doing, what they're reading and whom they're talking to. Now there's a new tool similar to Twitter that can help keep work e-mail inboxes clean. It's called Yammer.

Two students are dead and several others injured after a school shooting on Thursday in Santa Clarita, Calif. The shooter, himself a student, is in grave condition.

Robert Siegel and Melissa Block read listener responses to the program. Many criticized what they heard in our interview with Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. We also hear reaction to a review of Anne Rice's latest book and to our report on some Americans using less gas.

The 65 teams playing in the NCAA Tournament will be revealed on Sunday. Already, 11 men's college basketball teams have earned a slot in the tournament. Renee Montagne talks with commentator John Feinstein about smaller schools still hoping to make the Big Dance.

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has apologized to his family and the public after it was reported that he was involved in prostitution. Now many New Yorkers wonder whether the man whose crime-fighting reputation is on the line can stay in power.

The Democratic Rules Committee agreed Saturday to seat delegates from the disputed Florida and Michigan primaries at the party's convention — but give them only half a vote each. The decision was supposed to help heal the party. But the opposite seems to have occurred, with angry supporters of Hillary Clinton promising to take their fight to the convention in Denver.

There have been layoffs and cutbacks across America. New York Times economic correspondent Louis Uchitelle, author of The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences, says in the 1990s, laid-off workers could find jobs fairly easily, but the rise in unemployment is going to make getting back to work harder.

India is not a member of the G-8, but it is one of several emerging powers included in the G-20. Many believe these countries should have a greater say in global decision making. President Bush hosts a G-20 summit Friday. India believes key international financial institutions should be strengthened so the economic fallout on developing countries is minimal.

Newspaper editors John Kanelis of the Amarillo Globe-News in Texas and Kevin Riley of the Dayton Daily News update the election as it takes shape in their communities.

NASA has said the Phoenix Mars mission, which landed on the red planet last May, has ended. Since then, it has been snapping pictures, making weather measurements and conducting chemical analysis on Martian soil. NASA says it has not heard from Phoenix since Nov. 2.