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A major big band leader is the subject of a new book: Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way. With his brother Jimmy, Dorsey helped define American popular music from the 1920s through the mid 1950s. Peter Levinson tells Linda Wertheimer about his biography.

The Big Easy's musicians may be scattered by the storm, but they are united on a benefit CD called Our New Orleans. Public radio host Nick Spitzer, who produced several songs for the album, talks about the project with Melissa Block.

Russian forces are pulling back from Ukraine's second-largest city after weeks of heavy bombardment, the Ukrainian military says, as a battle for the country's eastern industrial heartland continues.

Antwan Wilson is a school principal who uprooted his family from their Kansas home to take the helm of Denver's troubled Montbello High. Wilson talks about his get-tough plan.

Only hours after the governor said 12 miners survived an underground explosion, company officials say early Wednesday that only one miner survived. The mine's owner blames the error on a misunderstood conversation. Another body was found Tuesday evening.

The cause of the Atlanta rapper's death has yet to be released. His brother, Lil Gotit, posted about Lil Keed's death over Instagram early Saturday .

Movie critic Bob Mondello says Walk The Line, the new biopic about the country music legend known as "The Man in Black, boasts terrific performances from Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter, while the film itself is conventional.

President Bush says he takes personal responsibility for shortcomings in the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, saying the storm had "exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government."

Celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse's newest cookbook pays homage to a 110-year-old New Orleans dining institution. The Food Network star and restaurateur talks about his mission to preserve the culinary history of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Both conservatives and liberals have expressed dismay over President Bush's choice of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court. But commentator Jay Sekulow thinks Miers has much to offer the American people. He is chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, a conservative advocacy law firm.