Search results for

Also: Helicopter crash kills six U.S. Marines in Afghanistan; Afghan soldier kills four French troops; search of Costa Concordia suspended.

Support for the legislation had been slipping even before Wednesday's "black out" by Wikipedia and some other websites. Now, senators will take some time to make changes in the bill.

Farmville’s Dana Nelson (who is also a musician) spent the last decade in Ireland working stone.Dana Nelson’s Stonework on Myspace

Harrisonburg’s Tim Estep describes himself as a "film maker."He produced his first full-length feature, Familiar Strangers, in 2008.Time Step Films

Her hits included The Wallflower, Something's Got a Hold on Me, and the wedding favorite At Last. James had leukemia. She would have turned 74 next Wednesday.

In 1978, the farmers in a small Chinese village signed a secret contract. They thought it might get them executed. Instead, it wound up transforming China's economy.

The veteran actor has played a Nazi-hunter, a vampire, a cowboy hitchhiker and the outlaw Jesse James. In his latest film, Brad Pitt plays the manager of baseball's Oakland A's. He tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross why the part interested him and what it's like to live life in the public eye.

Search and rescue operations at the wreck of the Costa Concordia have resumed, after being halted for a third time, due to choppy waters and the partially submerged vessel's tendency to shift on the rocks near Italy's coast.

The International Maritime Organization has decreed that by 2015, all large deep sea ships will be required to carry the latest in electronic navigation equipment. But does state-of-the-art navigation technology prevent shipwrecks like last week's off the Italian coast? University of Southern Mississippi hydrographer Max van Norden talks about the technology.

A high-speed video camera is a must for biologist Sheila Patek, of University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Patek studies the lesser-known speed demons of the animal kingdom. A trap-jaw ant can move at over 100mph and a mantis shrimp can accelerate with a g-force of 100,000 (the space shuttle accelerates at 3Gs).