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The cholera epidemic in Haiti is slowly spreading into new areas, mostly in the north of the country.

Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood says there is no way to drive safely when you're talking on a cell phone, even if you're using a hands-free device.

Halloween has always sparked creativity: White sheets become ghosts and front lawns become graveyards.But these days, the holiday is going high-tech, with stores selling zombie babies or animatronic Freddy Krueger dolls right off the shelf.

Try to buy some concert tickets or create a new e-mail account, and you're usually confronted with a puzzle of sorts.A box appears with a distorted word -- that sometimes isn't even a word -- and you have to re-type it.

Last of a three-part seriesDetroit has been at the center of the country's auto industry ever since Henry Ford rolled his first Model T off the assembly line in 1908.But as hard times have fallen on America's Rust Belt, there's a new region hoping to give Detroit a run for its money.

Google is making a huge investment in a massive off-shore cable that would eventually carry power from off-shore wind farms to cities along the Atlantic seaboard. The Atlantic Wind Connection will lie 15-20 miles off shore and run from New Jersey to Virginia.

Second of a three-part seriesEvery year, buzzwords enter the American lexicon, like "octomom" or "crowdsourcing." Next year, "range anxiety" may top the list.