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On the tenth anniversary of the Supreme Court Bush v. Gore decision, Steve Inskeep reports that collectors have bought up those punch-card voting machines that caused the hanging chad confusion of the 2000 election. Jim Dobyns bought 4,500 machines in Palm Beach County and has sold nearly all of them.

Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky will be in court Tuesday for a pre-trial hearing in his child sex abuse case. But the scandal isn't confined to the university. A high school and town, 35 miles away, are facing questions too.

A Brookville, Pa., man missed work because he said his mother had died. Her obit was in the local paper. Relatives began calling the paper saying Scott Bennett's mother was very much alive.

"If the excuse [of Iran] was that the presence of U.S. troops on Iraqi soil posed a threat to [Iranian] national security, then this danger is over," Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki tells The Wall Street Journal. He meets with President Obama today.

Family, friends, students, faculty and government officials will gather at 2 p.m. ET in Virginia Tech's Cassell Coliseum to remember campus police officer Deriek Crouse. The school plans to webcast the service.

Finding the Higgs boson be "the crowning achievement of subatomic physics." An announcement about the search is due Tuesday. But rumors about its discovery have flown before.

The star of Showtime's bloody crime drama talks about the show's eventual plans for an ending — and also about matters both professional and personal, from how he plays an emotionless killer to how Hall himself, while filming Dexter, has dealt with both cancer and a divorce.

As the last U.S. troops prepare to leave Iraq nearly nine years after American forces entered that nation, President Obama is meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

Critics have long derided the world's biggest cities as disorderly, overcrowded and polluted. But in recent years, as the planet's population continues to rise past seven billion and more and more people flock to urban areas, some now argue that cities may hold the key to sustainable growth.

Pink slips are one consequence of the recession that Al and Michelle Ford are all too familiar with. They both lost their jobs at the company they worked at together, and went through more layoffs a few years later. That can be a dark spot on a resume, which hiring managers are seeing more often.