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At least four emergency air packs issued at the Sago Mine failed to function, says West Virginia coal miner Randal McCloy. The lone survivor of the Jan. 2 disaster, in which 12 miners died, detailed the failures in a letter to the families of those who died after an explosion trapped them underground.

In the 1970s, Gwen Roland decided to live off the land — and water — in the Louisiana swamp. She and her partner lived on a houseboat they built themselves; they had no electricity and no running water. Roland chronicles those years in her book Atchafalaya Houseboat.

A new PBS documentary series uses DNA to trace the roots of Oprah Winfrey, Chris Tucker and other prominent African Americans all the way from slave plantations to the shores of Africa. Ed Gordon talks with the host and producer of the series, renowned Harvard University scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The Elder Wisdom Circle was founded on the premise that people over 60 have wisdom to impart. With 250 members nationwide, the group offers advice to thousands who e-mail their Web site.

It's hard not to notice when 18,000 people pick up and leave town all at once. Each time the soldiers at Fort Stewart are deployed, the residents of Hinesville, Ga., feel the absence keenly.

10 people are dead after an 18-year-old white man allegedly carried out an attack at a supermarket in a majority Black community.

Embattled Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announces changes in the way the Federal Emergency Management Agency deals with major disasters. New measures include a full-time response force and an improved tracking system for supplies.

Mike Luckovich and Ann Telnaes discuss reactions to cartoon depictions of the prophet Muhammad, joined by Stephen Hess, co-author of Drawn and Quartered: The History of American Political Cartoons.

Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a fellow hunter during a weekend quail-hunting trip at a Texas ranch. Millionaire attorney Harry Whittington, 78, was peppered with shotgun pellets in the face and chest in the accident Saturday afternoon, but is reported to be in stable condition in a Corpus Christi hospital.

Record producer Joel Dorn and photographer Lee Friedlander grew up listening to gospel and blues. Now they've put out a compilation of their favorite gospel songs from the 1950s and 1960s. They tell Debbie Elliott about Gospel Music.