WASHINGTON -- The Gallup Organization and a health industry partner now offer a detailed daily measure of U.S. happiness and stress that you can look up on the Internet. They hope that it will be as influential an indicator of national progress someday as the gross domestic product.

WASHINGTON -- Leaders of the National Park Service will gather next month at a private resort in the Utah mountains for a summit meeting that some career officials say feels more like a $1 million exercise in political promotion.

WASHINGTON -- Both violent and property crimes declined in 2007 from the previous year, the FBI reported Monday. But one expert warned that the figures could mask rising murder rates among young black men.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia will call for a summit between oil producing countries and consumer states to discuss soaring energy prices, Information and Culture Minister Iyad Madani said Monday.

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. -- After bone cancer forced the amputation of her right leg below the knee, Eileen Casey got even more bad news: Her insurer told her that she had spent her $10,000 lifetime coverage limit on her temporary limb and that the company wouldn't pay for a permanent one.

OAK BROOK, Ill.-- McDonald's says it has stopped serving sliced tomatoes in its restaurants over concerns about Salmonella food poisoning linked to uncooked tomatoes.

BOSTON -- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said it was "good to be home" after flying back to Massachusetts on Monday, one week after undergoing an aggressive and delicate surgery to treat a cancerous brain tumor.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas officials are bringing in canine teams and a national arson investigation unit to more carefully search for the cause of a fire in the Governor's Mansion.

FREMONT, Ohio -- A small plane crashed Sunday afternoon in a residential area and killed all six people aboard, including a former state lawmaker who had offered joyrides to visitors after a charity breakfast.

BAGHDAD -- A suicide truck bomber who concealed his explosives under tanned animal hides struck a U.S. patrol base Sunday in northern Iraq, killing one U.S. soldier and wounding 18 other Americans, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.

HOUSTON -- One after another, as a steamy summer evening faded from dusk to darkness, the bodies of young boys were pulled from the dirt floor of boat stall No. 11.

Julie Hirschfeld Davis

WASHINGTON -- The tricky politics of immigration, an issue once seen as a driving force of the 2008 election, have relegated it to a back but hot burner in the presidential campaign debate and paralyzed Congress on the topic.