Rep. Michele Bachmann is the Republican front-runner in Iowa, and she's drawing the kind of wide coverage to prove it. Politico compares her to Howard Dean; ABC reports that her husband's counseling firm may have urged gay patients to pray their way straight.

The man who created two of America's seminal TV comedies died early this morning. Sherwood Schwartz not only created The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island, but he also wrote the undeniably hummable theme songs.

A team of state officials will soon meet with Kentucky Speedway representatives to discuss next year’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Race.  Gridlock Saturday meant thousands of ticket holders didn’t see the race.  Governor Steve Beshear says his team will get together in the next few days. “I think everyone anticipated that we would have some problems.  Obviously nobody anticipated that the parking situation would end up creating the problem that it did,” said Beshear

Doctors say the latest recipient of a hand transplant at Louisville’s Jewish Hospital is recovering and being prepared for physical therapy. Donnie Rickelman of Linton, Indiana, about a two hour drive northwest of Louisville, received a new left hand Sunday. Rickelman’s left hand was partially amputated in a factory accident 13 years ago. The mishap with a steel splitter also crushed his right hand. The transplanted left hand, from an anonymous donor, also came from Indiana.

If you're hospitalized, here's hoping you won't need any succinylcholine, a muscle relaxant; epinephrine in a syringe for severe allergic reactions; or emergency-use syringes of lidocaine for irregular heartbeats.

All three of those drugs are high on the list of drugs experiencing shortages.

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In the months since Randy Howland, 51, was first hired as a customer service representative, his excitement having a job — any job — has turned to defeat.

"This is an anniversary day," says Randy into a recorder he's using to keep audio diaries for NPR's Road Back to Work series. "I've had my $10 an hour job now for four months."

Several politicians in recent weeks have called on the federal government to reimburse the City of Bowling Green for potential costs incurred should the trials of two suspected terrorists be held here. However, a statement released by the U.S. Department of Justice to the Daily News Tuesday morning reveals such calls might be unnecessary. “The federal government bears the costs of federal prosecutions and covers the bulk of expenses related to security,” said Dean Boyd, spokesman for the Department of Justice.

One of the more stunning details that came out of the nighttime raid that killed Osama bin Laden in early May, was when the president's top counterterrorism official, John Brennan, said all the evidence that hinted bin Laden lived in that Abbottabad compound was circumstantial.

The discovery that the vaults of a Hindu temple held a treasure worth $22 billion shocked many in India and beyond — especially because the vaults were last opened some 150 years ago. Now the Washington Post is reporting on the ability of India's "godmen" to accumulate money from millions of followers.

The Tequila Party isn't the first organization formed to advance the politics of a specific racial or ethnic group. Here's a look at how other efforts have fared:

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party:

Formed in 1964 by civil rights activists to desegregate the Mississippi Democratic Party and the all-white delegation it sent to the Democratic National Convention that year.