A suitable foster family has been found for six children who remain hospitalized after holing up in their home in a five-day standoff with police, officials said Wednesday. The influx could help the Democrats in 2002. Pam Smith, a letter carrier's wife from Tampa, Fla., couldn't wait to get inside. State's attorney general contradicts governor and files a brief in support of the ban. Clinton initiative has been blocked by judge.
Action is key to licensing for proposed repository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
A government advisory panel decided Wednesday that a drug abused in date rape can be useful as a treatment for a rare but dangerous complication of the sleep disorder narcolepsy. A woman who volunteered to be a surrogate mother for a friend gave birth Wednesday to three girls and a boy, all delivered by Caesarean section.