In the last few years, more than 4,000 refugees have found their way to a far-flung spot: Idaho. Most of the state's incoming refugees come to Boise. For years, the city's strong economy, good-quality affordable housing and supportive community created an especially favorable environment for refugee resettlement. The recession has shifted that picture.

Harry Wendelstedt spent 33 years as a National League umpire, including five stints to the World Series.

If you're a teenager, you probably hadn't heard of Joseph Kony last week. This week, you probably couldn't avoid him.

"If I log onto Facebook or Twitter any time during the day, it's my entire news feed, basically," says Patrick Franks, an 18-year-old senior at Loyola Blakefield High School, outside Baltimore.

Near the port of Piraeus and about 10 miles west of Athens, Perama developed after the Greek civil war of the 1940s, growing prosperous in the 1980s thanks to the ship-repair industry.

But now, the once-bustling piers are deserted. A few rusting skeletons of unfinished boats stand outside empty, abandoned warehouses.

That's because business migrated to low-cost Turkey and China, and in a few short years, industry jobs dropped from 4,500 to 50.

A state's lieutenant governor doesn't usually garner much attention, certainly not outside his own state, except for those instances when he must: assume the governorship in an emergency, break ties on controversial legislation in the deadlocked statehouse or resign under a cloud.

South Carolina's newly former lieutenant governor, Ken Ard, fits the last in that series.

Mitt Romney may consider the pair of primaries in Alabama and Mississippi on Tuesday an "away game," but Newt Gingrich is claiming a home court advantage.

Now comes word that President Obama pitched a movie idea to Hollywood big shot Harvey Weinstein, the Times of London recently reported. "The president sent me a book the other day and said, 'Why don't you make this into a movie?' " Weinstein said. "It was a spy novel. I sent him an email back saying he was the most overqualified book scout I've ever had."