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WASHINGTON - A new government audit shows that the axiomatic connection of the words "military-base closing" with "cost overruns" continues to be justified.

CALGARY, Alberta - Sherri and Tom Milley were exhausted by the weepy weeknight struggles over math problems and writing assignments with their three school-aged children. They were fed up with rushing home from soccer practice or speed skating only to stand over their kids tossing out answers so they could finish and get to bed.

BANGOR, Wash. - Specially trained Atlantic bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions will help guard a Trident submarine base in Washington beginning next year, the Navy announced this week.

A Canadian Indian tribe in Labrador says they have killed 64 caribou in an area closed to hunting in what some call a brazen assertion of their traditional rights.

In a move to track down uncounted Spanish-speakers, the U.S. Census Bureau is traveling to schools and telling children to explain the once-a-decade headcount to their parents. And the Census Bureau has enlisted a Spanish-language soap to include the census theme as a story line.

If fearful immigrants refuse to be counted, it could cost towns and cities much-needed government money.

A highly anticipated federal investigation of Chinese drywall is expected to be released Monday, and it could be worth thousands of dollars for affected homeowners.

That's because the report may trigger the availability of federal funds that affected homeowners could use to lessen their losses, according to a spokesman for Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla.

VANCOUVER - A flamboyant, wheeler-dealer millionaire is the undisputed ticket king of the Olympics.

For millionaire Sead Dizdarevic, it's a brand-new, above-board world

Women are making "no progress" cracking the executive glass ceiling in California, according to a just-released study by the University of California, Davis.

The fifth annual "California Women Business Leaders" study concludes that progress for women at the 400 largest public companies headquartered in the state is little improved since the first survey in 2005.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - A reported child abduction that turned out to be a hoax this week apparently started with two young boys mimicking the plot of a crime-related television program and ended with misdemeanor charges, a police spokesman said.

CREEDMOOR, N.C, - After a 14-month hunt that sent searchers trudging through pastures and peering into open wells, sheriff's deputies found the skeletal remains of Kelly Morris inside a 900-acre tract where dogs chase coyotes and foxes for sport.