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Retired accountant Kent Broussard of Baton Rouge decided to go back to college so he could audition for a spot in the LSU Tigers Marching Band. He made the cut.

Afghanistan is not an easy country to fully grasp. Author Nadeem Aslam recommends three books that help make the United States' involvement there — both before and after Sept. 11 — a little easier to understand.

The House Ways and Means Committee takes up a key element in President Bush's proposal to change the Social Security system. Committee Chairman Bill Thomas (R-CA) discusses the idea of adding individual investment accounts, which he supports.

The Dow Jones industrial average topped 23,000 for the first time, crossing another milestone amid better-than-expected earnings reports and concerns that stocks are approaching another bubble.

Videos and eyewitnesses appear to contradict the Trump administration's account of the Minneapolis killing, prompting accusations of excessive force and state concerns about a federal investigation they say is excluding them.

'Breaking Clean' by Judy Blunt. Read by Nancy Roth.

Cell phone video led to murder charges against a S.C. police officer for the shooting death of an unarmed man. Eyewitness videos can be helpful, but they don't always result in criminal charges.

The gossip website last week published a story about the personal life of a media executive. Following a backlash, Gawker's managing partnership voted to take the post down.

Doug Nadvornick reads Ernest Hemingway's first novel.

Kenneth Kamler, Md is a surgeon who also climbs mountains. He was team doctor on three expeditions to the top of Mount Everest, including the disastrous 1996 trip during which 6 people died. Kamler is both storyteller and advisor in his book, Doctor on Everest: Emergency Medicine at the Top of the World - A Personal Account including the 1996 Disaster. (The Lyons Press) Blackened limbs due to severe frostbite were the least of his troubles. I-V fluids are frozen solid, and abrasions cannot heal at such high altitudes. Kamler's day job is Director of the Hand Treatment Center in Hyde Park, New York, where he is a microsurgeon. He's done research on telemedicine for NASA and Yale Medical School.