Authorities in Alaska are investigating whether Candice Berner, a 32-year-old schoolteacher originally from Slippery Rock whose body was found in the woods of a remote Alaskan village, was the state's first recorded victim of a wolf attack. (Today)

Traffic fatalities for last year fell by nearly 9 percent, reaching their lowest level since 1954, the U.S. Department of Transportation reported today. (Today)

A panel of educators convened by the nation's governors and state school superintendents on Wednesday proposed a uniform set of academic standards, laying out their vision for what all the nation's public school children should learn in math and English, year by year, from kindergarten to high school graduation. (Today)

ST. CHARLES, Mo. -- President Barack Obama on Wednesday made an impassioned case for his health care proposal, delivering a folksy, partisan argument for reform as industry groups prepare a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign to defeat it. (Today)

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time -- the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries. (Today)