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Maryland Drug Officials Worry Over A Deadly Mixture

Officials with the Drug Enforcement Agency are meeting with Maryland state police and other law enforcement officers on Thursday. They hope to find a way to head off a tainted heroin mixture that has killed nearly 40 people in the state since September. Officials say the drug is affecting users in both the suburbs and inner cities, and groups that offer services to drug abusers are moving quickly to warn users to watch out for the deadly heroin-fentanyl combination.

Family Feud Renews Over MLK's Prized Possessions

The children of Martin Luther King Jr. are embroiled in yet another legal battle — this time, over control of the late civil rights leader's Bible and Nobel Peace Prize.

Olympic volunteers pet a stray dog in downtown Sochi, Russia, on Tuesday. The city's long-standing contract with a pest control company has animal right groups concerned about the fate of the many strays roaming the area.

Sochi's Stray Dogs Melt Hearts, And Put Officials On Defensive

The stray dogs roaming Russia's Olympics venues have already become the unofficial mascots of the Winter Games. Olympics officials say no healthy dogs will be destroyed, but animal rights groups worried about the fate of the dogs are taking in as many as they can.

Migrants are seen in a boat during a rescue operation by Italian navy ship San Marco off the coast to the south of the Italian island of Sicily on Wednesday.

Italian Navy Rescues Some 1,100 Migrants In Mediterranean

The people, including pregnant women and about 50 children, were fleeing sub-Saharan Africa when they were intercepted near the island of Lampedusa.

Congolese M23 rebel fighters detain a man they suspect to be an FDLR rebel returning from an incursion into Rwanda, north of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Nov. 27, 2012. The 20-year conflict in Eastern Congo can feel like an alphabet soup of armed groups. An international team of diplomats is trying to stop the violence, one militia at a time.

In Eastern Congo, Complex Conflicts And High-Stakes Diplomacy

Former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold now serves as special envoy to the African Great Lakes, where millions have died and dozens of armed groups scramble to seize land and minerals. He is part of a team of diplomats trying to rid the region, mired in decades of war, of a dizzying array of militias.

Simon Pegg (<em>Sean of the Dead, Star Trek</em>) plays Jack, a writer gone paranoid while working on a book about 19th-century murderers.

A Horror Comedy With 'Everything' And Then Some

A Fantastic Fear of Everything, starring Simon Pegg, packs a lot of inventive and colorful ideas. The only thing it lacks is restraint.

In 1975, <em>Shoah</em> director Claude Lanzmann interviewed Benjmain Murmelstein, the last surviving Elder of the Jews of the Czech Theresienstadt ghetto, at his home in Rome. The resulting film is <em>The Last of the Unjust.</em>

The Holocaust Recalled, Again, Through The Eyes Of 'The Unjust'

Documentary filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, known for his long and thorough examinations of the Holocaust and its memory, presents a series of 1975 conversations between himself and exiled Jewish elder Benjamin Murmelstein. (Recommended).

Family Matters, With A Dose Of Pharmaceuticals

Demi-Soeur, the tale of a developmentally disabled elderly woman getting to know her long-lost half-brother, is sweet if shabbily constructed, an amiably retro comedy set in a Gallic wonderland.

Senate Fails To Advance Unemployment Bill, Again

The bill would have restored unemployment benefits to 1.7 million Americans, who have been out of work for the long term.

Ralph Kiner, seen here in 1982 with fellow Hall of Famer Willie Mays, has died at 91.

A Legend At The Plate And In The Booth: Ralph Kiner Dies At 91

Ralph Kiner, a home run-hitting Hall of Famer who starred for the Pittsburgh Pirates and later helped define the New York Mets' broadcasts, has died at 91. He was a frequent all-star who later became a favorite of Mets fans and players.

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