SEATTLE -- Washington is joining Oregon, California and New Mexico in a lawsuit challenging the Bush administration move to open roadless national forest lands to mining, logging, road-building and other development, Gov. Chris Gregoire said Thursday.

SEATTLE -- Martin Tobias drives to work each day in a 2005 Volkswagen Beetle -- one that's entirely powered by soybean oil. The chief executive of Seattle Biodiesel hopes thousands of others will soon follow his lead.

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration on Friday detailed its proposal to sell more than 300,000 acres of national forests and other public land to help pay for rural schools in 41 states.

STATESBORO, Ga. -- Donny Ray Harris Jr. died on a rural stretch of Interstate 16 while riding shotgun with an intoxicated friend who lost control and flipped his car.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana women seeking an abortion would be told life begins at conception under a proposal that would give the state one of the furthest-reaching abortion consent laws in the country.

Even as the price of college rises, more low-income students who would likely get federal financial aid aren't even bothering to apply.