Associated Press Chinese rescue workers pulled a survivor from the rubble of a collapsed high school in Juyuan today.

CHENGDU, China – A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants yesterday in central China, killing about 10,000 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in the country's worst quake in three decades.

Ivy League and other elite colleges may soon be cheaper for some of the state's top students than California's public universities. The governing boards for the California State University and University of California systems will consider increasing fees tomorrow for the sixth time in seven years.

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court tossed itself off a big case yesterday. The court couldn't take up an apartheid dispute involving some of the nation's largest companies because too many of the justices had investments or other ties with those corporate giants.

Some public health experts are questioning why menthol, the most widely used cigarette flavoring and the most popular cigarette choice among black people, is receiving special protection as Congress attempts to regulate tobacco for the first time.

2008 VOTE: PRESIDENT

Forget the calls for her to quit the presidential race: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is determined to rack up two big primary victories in the next eight days – in West Virginia and Kentucky – as she seeks to prove her continued political viability and claim bargaining chips that might help her exit the race on her terms, her advisers say.