The parents of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway have sued one of the teenagers police questioned in the case. Holloway was last reported seen leaving a bar on the resort island with Joran Van der Sloot. The parents accuse him of "malicious, wanton and willful disregard of the rights, safety and well-being"of their daughter.

The parents of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway have sued one of the teenagers police questioned in the case. Holloway was last seen leaving a bar on the resort island with Joran Van der Sloot. The parents accuse him of "malicious, wanton and willful disregard of the rights, safety and well-being" of their daughter.

The parents of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway filed a wrongful death suit against one of the young men police held for questioning in the investigation. Holloway was last seen leaving a bar on the resort island with Joran Van der Sloot.

Secretary Spellings spoke about competitiveness and No Child Left Behind at Columbia College in Columbia, South Carolina.

Transcripts of the first three meetings of the Secretary's Commission on the Future of Higher Education are now available.

AP - Charles Lee admits defense wasn't his forte coming out of high school. He found out quickly that had to change at Bucknell.

AP - Moments after he was chosen as a finalist for the Basketball Hall of Fame, Charles Barkley lobbied all 24 voters to elect Dominique Wilkins.

AP - The Tennessee Titans showed Kyle Vanden Bosch respect, and that kept him from testing a free-agent market that could have made him much richer.

New batteries from Valence Technologies extend the range of electric and hybrid vehicles. Expect to see a lot more of them. Plus: Truckers tank up on biodiesel ... and a 300-HP hybrid from Lexus. From the Wired News blog Autopia.

The search is on for 10 crew members missing after the crash of two U.S. Marine Corps helicopters off the coast of the eastern African nation of Djibouti, where U.S. forces operate a military base.

AP - The White House said Saturday it will watch closely to see how the militant group Hamas responds to calls for it to moderate its hardline stance concerning Israel now that it has assumed a majority role in the Palestinian parliament.

League One Brentford's gallant FA Cup run comes to an end at the fifth-round stage as Charlton fire in three at The Valley.

AFP - Malaysia's ailing national carmaker Proton has dismissed an offer by former chief executive Mahaleel Ariff to buy its British sports car outfit Lotus for one pound (1.74 dollars).

AP - James Augustine scored 18 points and grabbed 10 rebounds Sunday to lead No. 14 Illinois to a 70-58 win over Indiana in Mike Davis' first game since announcing he would quit as the Hoosiers' coach after the season.

AP - Since he made his debut over a year ago, John Legend has become more confident on stage — not in his singing, but his sex appeal.

AP - Indiana coach Mike Davis is ready to put last week behind him. The Hoosiers, playing for the first time since Davis announced he will step down at the end of the season, shot just 36 percent from the field en route to their fifth straight loss, 70-58 to No. 14 Illinois on Sunday

AP - Iraqi political parties have run into major obstacles in talks on a new national unity government, officials said Sunday, raising the possibility of a major delay that would be a setback to U.S. hopes for a significant reduction in troop levels this year.

The popular format that defined the online music revolution is outdated, but a new upgrade may give MP3 its best chance for a second life. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk. This column is also available as a .

AP - On his 31st birthday Monday, Washington Nationals ace Livan Hernandez awoke before dawn and drove 200 miles from Miami for an abbreviated spring training workout.

The volatile Gaza Strip, where half the population is unemployed and political tensions run high, may seem an unlikely place for an American corporation to build an information technology education center. But that's what Intel plans on doing, and the company is bullish about the long-term prospects.