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Sgt. Anthony Sills, right, comforts his wife as they wait outside the Fort Hood Army Base near Killeen, Texas on Thursday, Nov. 5. The Sills' 3-year old son is still in daycare on the base, which is in lock-down following a mass shooting earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett)
November 6, 2009 – Associated Press
A gunman opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post Thursday, killing 13 people and wounding dozens.

In these three undated photos provided by Dickenson State University, missing students, from left, Kyrstin Gemar, 22, of Grossmont, Calif., Ashley Neufeld, 21, of Brandon, Manitoba in Canada, and Afton Williamson, 20, of Lake Elsinore, Calif. are shown. (AP Photo/Dickenson State University)
November 3, 2009 – Associated Press
Three missing North Dakota college softball players were found dead Tuesday in a Jeep pulled from a pond.

A police officer in plain clothes keeps watch on UC employees and students demonstrating against proposed fee hikes at a meeting of the Board of Regents at the UCSF Mission Bay campus in San Francisco, on Wednesday, Sept. 16. (AP Photo/San Francisco Chronicle, Paul Chinn)
October 12, 2009 – Associated Press
Around the country, deep budget cuts are making it harder for students to get into the courses they need to earn their degree.

A protest sign is seen at a rally attended by an estimated 200 farm workers and members of a Hispanic water coalition calling on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state lawmakers to reach a solution to the state's water problem at the Capitol in Sacramento., Calif., Friday, Oct. 9. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
October 10, 2009 – Associated Press
Lawmakers are trying to draft a plan to upgrade California's water system, which is failing to provide for farmers, cities and wildlife.
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Improvised tombstones stand in front of graves for victims of a massive landslides on Wednesday Oct. 7 in Lubuk Laweh village, northeast of Padang, Indonesia, eights days after a 7.6-magnitude quake that toppled thousands of buildings on Sumatra island.(AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)
October 7, 2009 – Associated Press
Children swarmed into the streets clutching begging boxes and yelling "please help me" Wednesday as an aid convoy reached villages deep in Indonesia's quake zone.

A helicopter makes a water drop as firefighters battle the Station wildfire burning in the Angeles National Forest northeast of downtown Los Angeles on Firday, Aug. 28. The Los Angles Sheriff's Department says a voluntary evacuation is being urged for nearly 900 homes in the La Canada Flintridge area. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond)
August 26, 2009 – Associated Press
A growing wildfire sending massive billows of smoke into the sky north of Los Angeles nearly tripled in size Saturday, injuring three residents, burning a small number of ...

In this photo taken Monday, Aug. 10, members of the St. Thomas Korean Catholic Center pray in their newly built church in Anaheim, Calif. The congregation is one of the largest Korean Catholic churches in the country. St. Thomas Korean Catholic Center of Anaheim and other Korean Catholic centers have seen their pews fill up in recent years, aided by a surge in immigration to affluent Orange County and a steady stream of converts who come to the faith after settling. (AP Photo/Philip Scott Andrews)
August 21, 2009 – Associated Press
An increasing amount of Koreans moving to Orange County has fueled a boom in Korean Catholic churches in the area.

Actor Hugh Jackman, left, holds a camera to photograph himself and fans after he arrives for a promotion of his new movie "X-Men Origins: Wolverine"on Cockatoo Island in Sydney, Australia April 8. (AP Photo/Aman Sharma)
May 4, 2009 – Associated Press
Audiences weren't deterred from watching "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" on the big screen despite a full-length version of the superhero prequel clawing its way online last month. The ...

Pediatrician and primary physician Dr. Ellen Rothman, left, gives Makhi Hatch, 4, an examination for his cough as his mother Stephanie Correa, center, watches on, at the St. John's Well Child and Family Center in Los Angeles Wednesday, April 29,. The St. John's Well Child & Family Center, which oversees clinics that treat Los Angeles' poor and uninsured, doctors have seen a surge in patients complaining about flu-like symptoms. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
April 30, 2009 – Associated Press
Health officials on Thursday stressed that people with flu-like symptoms should avoid public transportation but said everyone else needs only to follow commonsense precautions, as the nation's ...

In this Jan. 15, 2007 file photo City Year Corps member Leon McClain, right, helps assemble emergency preparedness backpack kits at Martin Luther King High School in Philadelphia. An analysis of federal data released Thursday, April 22, found that one in three teens, age 16 to 18, volunteered in 2005, representing a peak in community service for all age groups since the survey began tracking voluntarism in 2002. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
April 23, 2009 – Associated Press
An analysis of federal data has found that the percentage of teens who volunteer dipped in recent years, ending an upward trend that began after the terror attacks ...
