INA - Decidedly unMay-like temperatures and driving rains didn't stop 11 teams from giving their all in the annual Robert Earl Jones Commemorative Mine Rescue Competition Thursday at Rend Lake College.

CARBONDALE - It's been an ardently slow process to restore a unique structure commonly referred to as Bucky's Dome. The geodesic dome is located in Carbondale's Arbor District just north of the Southern Illinois University Carbondale campus.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - You're ready to sell. Fresh paint is on the walls. Closets are tidy, the baths and kitchen immaculate.

HARRISBURG - This Mother's Day, David Hilliard will find himself surrounded with buckets full of white, pink and red peonies.

The morning of April 14 broke quietly.

LUOSHUI TOWN, China - Troops dug burial pits in this quake-shattered town and black smoke poured from crematorium chimneys elsewhere in central China as priorities began shifting Thursday from the hunt for survivors to dealing with the dead. Officials said the final toll could more than double to 50,000.

ANAHEIM, Calif. - Carlos Quentin broke an eighth-inning tie with his first career grand slam, leading the Chicago White Sox over Los Angeles 6-1 Wednesday night in John Lackey's return to the Angels' rotation.