The University of Florida has been given a gift of 2.2 million butterfly and moth specimens that include hundreds of rare and valuable varieties.

What does it take to be an election judge? The answer, apparently, is not much. The Eagan City Council on Tuesday night took up the issue of whether prospective vanguards of America's democratic process ought to go through minimal screening or fill out a basic application.

Almost a year after Gina Lin Anderson disappeared in Thief River Falls, Minn., authorities and her family refused to stop looking for her.