CNN — The man overseeing the federal response to the Gulf oil disaster will meet New Orleans parish presidents Thursday to outline the plans after the well is permanently sealed. (U.S. News)

CNN — There have been ''credible sightings'' recently of a California woman who vanished nearly a year ago after being released from a sheriff's station, authorities said Wednesday. (U.S. News)

CNN — The man overseeing the federal response to the Gulf oil disaster will meet New Orleans parish presidents Thursday to outline the plans after the well is permanently sealed. (U.S. News)

CNN — A picturesque New York town is all abuzz and ready for its closeup as the countdown to Chelsea Clinton's wedding starts. (U.S. News)

CNN — A senate subcommittee hearing is scheduled Thursday to examine the mismanagement of Arlington Cemetery, one of the nation's most hallowed burial places for its war dead. (U.S. News)

CNN — An Air Force C-17 cargo plane crashed on a local training mission near the Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska on Wednesday, a captain at the base told CNN. (U.S. News)

CNN — Parts of an Arizona immigration law go into effect Thursday as it was passed -- after a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction that blocked the most controversial aspects of it. (U.S. News)

CNN — One Chandler, Arizona, police officer was killed and two others were wounded during an investigation in south Phoenix home Wednesday night, a police spokesman said. (U.S. News)

CNN — Authorities in Louisiana still don't know how long it will take to cap a well struck by a vessel off the coast, as they tried Wednesday to minimize the damage from leaking oil and gas. (U.S. News)

CNN — One hundred days after an oil well operated by BP ruptured in the Gulf of Mexico, and 13 days after crews finished capping the well to contain the gushing crude, the man who is overseeing the federal response is optimistic that steps planned for the coming days will finally, permanently seal the well. (U.S. News)