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Blue Highway's CD Marbletown is topping the bluegrass charts and has been nominated for a Grammy. Founder Tim Stafford and dobro player Rob Ickes tell Debbie Elliott what's behind the group's music.

The sentencing phase of the Zacarias Moussaoui trial continues in Virginia on Tuesday. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Moussaoui, the only man charged in the United States for his involvement in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Noah Adams discusses the case with Slate legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick.

Israeli forces blast their way into a Palestinian prison in the West Bank town of Jericho. The action was taken in an attempt to capture Palestinian several militants, including a man convicted in Israeli courts of killing an Israeli Cabinet minister. The targets of the siege refused to come out despite Israel's threats to kill them.

Director Isaac Greggs is stepping down after nearly 40 years with the marching band at Southern University. The group's intricate, animated performances have thrilled crowds for decades.

In Africa, almost a half-million children died last year of AIDS. Hundreds of thousands of others are in need of treatment. But very few get it because the barriers to treating children are even greater than those for adults.

In the past two days, police in Baghdad have found the bodies of more than 80 men -- some shot, some strangled, most with their hands bound -- raising fears that Shiite militias are running death squads to avenge Sunday's bombing in the capital's main Shiite district.

Dr. William H. Seitz, an orthopedic surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic, is a specialist in a bone-lengthening technique that develops useful fingers, hands and even elbow joints in children born with malformed limbs. Recent advances have made the process far less painful than before.

Blood tests and a letter have led to questions about the death of former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, who died in his jail cell on Saturday. Milosevic recently said in a letter that he believed he was being poisoned. He faced a possible life sentence over a war crimes trial at the United Nations tribunal in The Hague.

Last month, her house under Katrina's floodwaters, Sharon White was determined to go home again. On Wednesday, the New Orleans evacuee got her first look at the severe damage done to her property.

A study in The New England Journal of Medicine shows that nearly 90 percent of adults and adolescents treated for AIDS in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince were alive after a year of triple-drug treatment, compared to only 30 percent before treatment was available.