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Documents: 'Significant Flaws' In Hanford Tanks Could Lead To More Leaks

There are "significant construction flaws" in some newer, double-walled storage tanks at Washington state's Hanford nuclear waste complex, which could…

This, We Agree, Was The First-Ever Recorded Rock And Roll Song

What was the first recorded rock and roll song?Before we can answer that question, we have to go back and figure out the ingredients of rock and roll. We…

Picture taken by mobile phone on Saturday shows luggage scattered inside the Kunming Railway Station in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province.

Knife Gang Attacks China Rail Station, Killing Dozens

A group of knife-wielding assailants attacked a railway station in southern China, killing at least 27 and wounding more than 100.

An artist's sketch of the revamped I-10/Claiborne Overpass in New Orleans.

3 Cities With Freeways Going Nowhere

Once thought to be symbols of prosperity, innercity highways are now just eyesores — and sources of civic dysfunction — to some new urbanists.

The Beauty Of Spilling Your Sad Teenage Guts

A new memoir called Notes To Boys finds writer Pam Ribon digging through the real letters she wrote to real boys and finding some funny, sweet, strange truths about being young and wonderfully dumb.

Everard Hall estimates he's dug about 2,500 graves over nearly 50 years. Some have been special: "I buried my mother, my father, my grandfather, and two aunts and two uncles. And I buried my sister Marilyn."

Digging Graves The Old-Fashioned Way: 'This Ain't No Easy Job'

"I've dug graves when it was 10 below zero and the wind blowing and snowing, and I've dug graves when it was 90 degrees and hotter than hell. I remember all of them," says Everard Hall, who's been digging with a pickax and a shovel for 48 years. This summer, he'll start digging his own grave.

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