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Alexander Dale Oen, 26, was training at high altitude in Flagstaff. He suffered an apparent heart attack on Monday and died. He would have been a top contender for gold in this summer's Olympic Games.

Authorities say the public was never in danger — the suspects were being monitored and hadn't gotten their hands on dangerous explosives. But it's alleged they planned a May Day explosion.

Yogurt enthusiasts are rediscovering heirloom yogurt starters, many of which originated in countries with long traditions of yogurt-making. These bacterial cultures, which live on milk, can regenerate in one batch after another.

"I still look at him as the boy that I met in high school when he was playing all the jokes and really just being crazy, pretty crazy," Ann Romney said today on CBS.

A year ago, U.S. forces launched a secret mission that ended up killing Osama bin Laden. But has the death of one of the world's most wanted men led to a safer world? Host Michel Martin speaks with former CIA agent Michael Scheuer, who led the CIA unit tasked with tracking Osama bin Laden from 1996 to 1999.

Journalist Peter Bergen outlines the decade-long search for the al-Qaida leader in his new book Manhunt. Bergen is the only journalist to gain access to bin Laden's Abbottabad compound before it was razed by the Pakistani government.

Strong-than-expected news about the factory sector has sent the Dow Jones industrial average up to a level not seen since the end of 2007.

Bonnie Miller Rubin recently rediscovered a 1973 article introducing her as the first "gal" sports reporter in Davenport, Iowa. Younger colleagues at the Chicago Tribune were horrified when they read the piece that described her as a "pert young miss" who would cover coaches' wives and cheerleaders.

Feminist literary scholar Susan Gubar was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer in November 2008. In Memoir of a Debulked Woman, she details — with graphic honesty — the physical and emotional pain, the surgery, chemotherapy, "intestinal disasters" and psychological changes that followed.

On suspicion of speaking to a boy by phone, a teenage Afghan girl was threatened with death by her brothers. She fled to a U.S. military base, creating a quandary. If returned home, she faced almost certain death. If the military kept her on the base, the deeply conservative Afghan community would be outraged.