By Jerry Hirsch and P.J. Huffstutter The flood tides enveloping the Midwest will crest across the nation in the form of higher prices in just the places where households have been hit the hardest -- food and fuel.

By Sara Israelsen Deseret Morning News VINEYARD -- With gas at nearly $3 a gallon and I-15 clogged like a coronary artery after years of a Big Mac diet, Vineyard may be a key component to solving some of Utah County's transportation woes.

By Joe Orso, La Crosse Tribune, Wis. Mar. 3--On Wednesday night, Pastor Steve Meyer painted his sermon. Standing at the front of a room in the Seven Bridges Bank Building on Hwy. 35, he dipped his brush in green paint.

By Nicole Warburton Deseret Morning News PROMONTORY SUMMIT, Box Elder County -- It was a record that historians claim has yet to be matched: 10 miles of rail laid by hand, in just one day. Over 1,000 men, all employed by the Central Pacific Railroad, accomplished the feat on April 28, 1869.

By TOM CHORNEAU MANTECA, Calif. - Hog farmer Scott Long is moving more pork these days than a powerful lawmaker.