CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. Fire shuts I-75 near Tampa | | A large brush fire near Tampa, Florida, prompted authorities Saturday afternoon to shut down Interstate 75 in both directions, a sheriff's office said. |
Source: Deal reached on new work visa | | Business and labor negotiators working to hammer out a deal on an immigrant guest worker program have reached broad agreement, a source familiar with the talks said Saturday, eliminating one major hurdle to legislation revamping the nation's immigration system. |
Ex-dentist's patients begin HIV tests | | About 7,000 patients of an Oklahoma dentist from the past six years are being urged to get tested after investigators found unsanitary conditions at his dental office. |
'Pope of Pop' Phil Ramone dies | | Music producer and engineer Phil Ramone, winner of 14 Grammys and a technical innovator, died Saturday morning in a New York hospital, his son Matt told CNN. |
How worried should you be? | | Former defense secretary William Cohen says U.S. should be very concerned, Kim Jong Un under pressure to show his mettle. |
'62 Playmate of Year dies | | Playboy magazine's 1962 "Playmate of the Year," Christa Speck Krofft, died March 22 of natural causes at the age of 70, a family spokesman said Friday. |
TSA agents spared despite violations | | A number of Transportation Security Administrator employees who faced dismissal for not following screening procedures ended up with suspensions instead, the agency said. |
North Korea | | North Korea's threatening rhetoric has reached a fevered pitch, but the Pentagon and the South Korean government have said it's nothing new. |
Can he do it? | | An NCAA win for coach Rick Pitino of Louisville would be like no other. |
Why your Facebook feed went red | | You may have noticed something different about your friends' profile pictures as you scrolled through your Facebook feed this week. According to the social networking site, roughly 2.7 million users changed their profile image on Tuesday as the U.S. Supreme Court pondered the future of same-sex marriage in the United States. |
Baby killed | | The investigation into the shooting of a baby in Brunswick, Georgia -- a crime that's grabbed national headlines -- has taken yet another turn with the arrest of a local politician. |
Make sure your dentist does this | | The recent news in Tulsa, Oklahoma, brings to light an issue that is rare, but nonetheless important -- cross infection in the dental office, or the transfer of infection from one patient to another in a health care environment. |
Cops, suicide and a father's cause | | On the evening of December 3, 2008, John Francis Cahill, a police officer for 19 years, walked up a trail in California's Santa Cruz Mountains. He stopped, took out a .40-caliber Glock semi-automatic handgun and shot himself in the temple. He was 42 years old. He was the father of two daughters. He was my firstborn son. |
Gay marriage hasn't won (yet...) | | If Rush Limbaugh says same-sex marriage is inevitable, it's inevitable. Here's what the conservative radio host had to say about the topic on a recent show: |
35 educators indicted over test cheating | | Among the educators facing corruption charges stemming from a cheating scandal is a former superintendent who was recognized nationally for turning around Atlanta's school system. |
School-cheating indictments | | In what has been described as one of the largest cheating scandals to hit the nation's public education system, 35 Atlanta Public Schools educators and administrators were indicted Friday on charges of racketeering and corruption. |
Online extortion | | The California man thought he put his past behind him, but then he became victim to an online scam associated more with the mafia than the Internet. |
SEAL killed | | A Navy SEAL killed in a parachute training accident this week in Arizona belonged to the same elite squad that includes those chosen to go after Osama bin Laden in Pakistan two years ago, a source familiar with the matter said. |
141 murder charges: Pleads not guilty | | Two men have pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges tied to the shooting death of a Chicago teenage girl, who days before had performed at a Washington brunch in the run-up to President Barack Obama's inauguration. |
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