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Former first lady "Lady Bird" Johnson, the widow of former President Lyndon Johnson, was buried Sunday at the family ranch in Texas. She died Wednesday at the age of 94.

An Argentine dad who loves Brazilian music, a Swedish childhood listening to Western pop, a stint in a hard-core metal band ... that['s the curious pedigree of singer-guitarist Jose Gonzalez, who can bring a hushed, haunting quality even to Kylie Minogue's pop hit "Hand on Your Heart." His music, well-known in Europe, is now finding an audience in the United States.

Mike Douglas, who moved from a singing career to a successful run as a TV talk show host, has died at 81. The Mike Douglas Show ran from 1961 to 1982 -- largely from Philadelphia -- and helped popularize the talk-show format.

Twenty-five penguins were en route from the Indianapolis Zoo to a new home in Galveston, Texas, when the refrigerated truck carrying them overturned. Four of them died, but the survivors are squawking and walking and doing remarkably well.

The real-life story behind Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise is a compelling one: the author's manuscript lay unread for years after her death at the Auschwitz camp. But Nemirovsky's writing, notes author Elizabeth Strout, can stand up to its own tragic provenance.

In Texas, pregnant patients who learn their fetus has a fatal condition have two options: carry the pregnancy until birth or travel out of state for an abortion.

Andrew von Eschenbach's nomination to head the Food and Drug Administration is wrapped up in a fight over whether to approve over-the-counter use of the Plan B birth-control pill.

Today, people will begin receiving emails from a Carnegie Mellon University program that trolls the internet for names, dates of birth and social security numbers. If you're contacted, you're a likely victim of identity theft. Don't worry -- Identity Angel will tell you how to fix things.

In a world full of mindfulness as a buzzword, what does life look like for those who follow the theology that birthed it?

We know him as the man who wrote the music used at graduations, but in Britain, Edward Elgar means a lot more. It's the 150th anniversary of the birth of the composer who gave the British "Pomp and Circumstance" and one little "Enigma."