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1,000 graves on Mississippi campus could belong to asylum patients

The discovery of what could be as many as 1,000 graves on the campus of the University of Mississippi Medical Center has officials rethinking the location parking facilities and other facilities.

 
2 skiers die in Oregon avalanche; toll this season hits 12

Officials in eastern Oregon say an avalanche in the Wallowa Mountains has killed two backcountry skiers, raising the number of people killed in avalanches this season to 12, with six happening since Sunday.

Let ex-felons vote, U.S. attorney general urges Nevada

Attorney General Eric Holder called on Nevada and 10 other states Tuesday to restore voting rights to ex-felons, part of a push to fix what he sees as flaws in the criminal justice system that have a disparate impact on racial minorities.

Longtime NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw diagnosed with cancer

Veteran news anchor Tom Brokaw, an institution of broadcast journalism for more than two decades as the face of “NBC Nightly News,” has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer affecting blood cells in the bone marrow

House avoids confrontation over debt cap, passes extension

The GOP-controlled House has backed away from a battle over the government’s debt cap and passed a measure extending Treasury’s borrowing authority with overwhelming support from President Barack Obama’s Democratic allies.

77 die, 1 survives in Algerian military plane crash

Algeria’s Ministry of Defense says 77 people were killed and one man survived after a military transport plane crashed into a mountain in eastern Algeria.

 
Report: Children, young adults regularly consuming caffeine

Nearly 3 out of 4 U.S. children and young adults consume at least some caffeine, mostly from soda, tea and coffee. The rate didn’t budge much over a decade, although soda use declined and energy drinks became an increasingly common source, a government analysis finds.