Updated: 8:26 AM This allows Transportation Security Officers to better focus their efforts on finding higher threat items such as explosives.

Updated: 1:26 PM Federal health officials are asking health care facilities around the country to take urgent action.

Updated: 9:15 PM Jimi Hendrix's final album has dropped more than 40 years after his death. It's called "People, Hell and Angels."

Posted: 5:24 PM Venezuela's vice president announced that President Hugo Chavez died on Tuesday, ending 14 years of rule by the firebrand socialist but leaving his party firmly in control of the nation.

Posted: 9:17 AM The National Rifle Association is becoming the title sponsor of a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.

Updated: 4:26 PM The child received aggressive treatment just 30 hours after birth.

Updated: 2:39 PM Indiscriminate budget cuts go into effect today because the president and Congress failed to agree with a budget savings plan with which to replace them.

Updated: 2:13 PM What 100 troops can build can be rendered useless by a whisper.

Updated: 10:52 AM Nobody is particularly happy about it. President Obama and congressional Democrats have sounded the alarm most urgently, warning that the cuts - half domestic, half defense - will sideline an economic recovery still struggling to gain traction.

Posted: 2:21 PM Genes involved in how calcium channels operate in the brain are important for how brain cells communicate. It seemed to be associated with all of these disorders.

Posted: 9:58 AM Pope Benedict XVI has embarked upon a final, quiet day as pontiff, meeting with his cardinals before he is due to fly off into retirement.

Updated: 11:15 AM Benedict clearly enjoyed the crowds.

Updated: 1:08 PM Dream Defenders is calling for the repeal of Stand Your Ground legislation.

Updated: 10:05 AM An overview of the 2013 Academy Awards.

Updated: 11:07 AM Double-amputee Olympian claims he shot and killed his girlfriend accidentally because he thought she was an intruder.

Posted: 3:24 PM Fans of Kellogg's Special K Red Berries may want to check the UPC code on their cereal boxes.

Posted: 3:09 PM Boots and Barkley, Colorado Naturals, Nature's Deli among brands affected.

Updated: 2:59 PM The SCOOTER Store did agreed to pay back $19.5 million last year.

Posted: 3:47 PM Thousands of people from 60 countries watched a baby boy enter the world in Houston on Wednesday.

Updated: 3:43 PM In Florida this week, Kellogg CEO John Bryant says his company plans to roll out 'Breakfast To Go' milk-based drink nationally this year.

Updated: 10:46 AM The deal would transform the $21.2 billion office supply retail sector.

Posted: 3:38 PM Reports submitted to FDA make a difference, says the director of FDA's Office of Pediatric Therapeutics (OPT).

Posted: 3:32 PM The Supreme Court says police don't have to extensively document a drug-sniffing dog's reliability in the field.

Posted: 3:58 PM Investigators have been with the ship since it arrived Thursday in Mobile.

Posted: 3:31 PM The recall affects more than 504,000 cars in the U.S. and another 65,000 in Canada.