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West Virginia's state legislature has quickly passed a bill aimed at giving miners a better chance of surviving accidents. Gov. Joe Manchin submitted the bill, which calls for faster notification when an accident occurs and additional oxygen supply underground

Fayard Nicholas was part of the famous acrobatic dancing team the Nicholas Brothers. He died earlier this week at the age of 91. Fayard's brother and tap partner Harold Nicholas recalls their career together.

Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff announces that Mike Brown, the embattled director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is being relieved from daily direction of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

Sept. 11 made public an academic debate over the effectiveness of trauma counseling. In the face of criticism, the largest provider of "critical-incident stress debriefings" has now changed course. It no longer urges participants to rehash the trauma or suggest symptoms they might be experiencing.

Alex Chadwick talks with Slate legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick about the Supreme Court confirmation hearings beginning Monday for Judge John Roberts. The Senate Judiciary Committee is considering Roberts for the post of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Internet auction provider eBay agrees to buy Skype. eBay will pay $2.6 billion in cash and stock for the Internet calling service, in hopes that it will boost communication between buyers and sellers.

President Bush announces Katrina relief proposals in his speech from New Orleans, but didn't address how the rebuilding will be funded.

Some Goshute Indians in Utah see a lucrative future for the tribe in providing a temporary storage facility for nuclear waste. Only a dozen people live on the reservation, and the issue has made life tough for neighbors.

Geologists and other scientists warn that unless the wetlands that buffer New Orleans are rebuilt soon, the new New Orleans will get flooded again. At the same time, confusion surrounds exactly what should be done or how long it will take or cost.

Singer-songwriter Neil Young discusses his latest album, Prairie Wind. It was recorded as Young was being treated for a brain aneurysm earlier this year.

Kevin Judice is a lieutenant in the Narcotics Division of the New Iberia, La., police department. He spent eight days rescuing people in New Orleans.

Minton Sparks is a poet, storyteller and performance artist rolled into one, and her new recording, Sin Sick, offers tales tall and small, dark and whimsical, drawing on characters from her native Tennessee and the South.