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Carmela Conroy, the newly-minted leader of the Spokane County Democratic Party, says it’s time to put discord aside and work on fielding qualified candidates in this election year.

Leonard Pickel, a haunted house architect, has been designing fear factories for more than 40 years.

In an Idaho Public Television debate this week, the three candidates clashed over unproven voter fraud allegations, and if voter fraud is a problem in Idaho.

The Food Network draws more viewers than any of the cable news channels, but Americans are actually cooking less than ever. Food-culture writer Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) ponders the phenomenon.

Frank Deford bids farewell to the Ringling Brothers Circus and has some further thoughts on taking a final bow.

News broke Thursday that in 2005, the CIA destroyed at least two videotapes made three years earlier that showed harsh interrogation techniques. Intelligence committee members from both parties say they weren't told about the tapes or about plans to destroy them.

The base is one of the epicenters of the US presence in Afghanistan.

The saxophonist James Carter has recorded tributes to Billie Holiday and the gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, among others. On a new record called Gold Sounds, he and a top-shelf trio pick a less obvious target: the work of the alternative rock band Pavement.

Quentin Geant, California branch manager of Beeopic, works with his father Nicolas Geant to care for the nearly 180,000 bees on top of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral. The bees survived last week's fire.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il indicates that his country could return to international disarmament negotiations in July. Kim said as much in his first meeting with a top South Korean official in more than three years.