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More than a century ago, the Union's USS Monitor sank off the coast of Cape Hatteras, N.C. Ten years ago, searches uncovered the remains of two of its sailors. Now, officials are hoping their descendants will recognize their facial reconstructions and finally bring the sailors home.

Mitt Romney won Super Tuesday's big prize of Ohio and five other states, but overall results were mixed, with Rick Santorum capturing three states and Newt Gingrich one. Romney won more delegates than Santorum but trailed among core GOP constituencies — Southerners and evangelicals.

The CDC is urging hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and doctors to step up the fight against the spread of C. difficile. The bacterial infection can cause life-threatening diarrhea and other complications.

Just as dozens of advertisers were abandoning Rush Limbaugh's radio show, a pro-Gingrich superPAC actually increased its ad buy on the program. Rick Tyler, a spokesman for Winning Our Future explained that Limbaugh's show reaches more of the primary voters the superPAC wants to reach than any other show.

An announcement is due Wednesday, the network says. Manning, who has spent his entire 14-year career with the Colts, missed the 2011 season with a neck injury.

NPR staffers celebrate the men behind "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" with their memories.

The elite athletes who travel to London for this summer's Olympic Games will include petite gymnasts, huge wrestlers — and elite horses, which compete in dressage and other events. The man whose job it is to get 50-60 horses to England says, "It's quite a logistical feat."

Daily Beast and Newsweek editor Tina Brown highlights a book and an article on two titanic individuals at the center of political change: Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin and pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar.

Vladimir Putin says a strong military is needed to protect Russia's resources from foreign powers. Using strong anti-Western rhetoric, he promises to equip the army with new warplanes and missiles designed to penetrate the proposed U.S. anti-missile shield.

In large sections of America's farmland, new strains of weeds are making life miserable for farmers. They've developed resistance to the country's No. 1 weedkiller, Roundup. Now farmers face a choice: Do they go for yet another kill-all-the-weeds chemical, or go back to more complicated, labor-intensive ways of fighting weeds?