By Matt Baker, Times Staff Writer Wednesday, February 22, 2012 DAYTONA BEACH Tony Stewart sits in a black director's chair on a live TV set, the latest stop in the defending NASCAR champion's whirlwind day in a whirlwind offseason. • He shot a commercial in London, acted in a sitcom alongside Tim Allen, and sported custom clogs emblazoned with his No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet. • Now, as ...

The U.S. Army announces that a soldier from New Hampshire was found unresponsive in his Fort Benning barracks room.

A fungus rarely seen in the wild is killing certain southern Illinois rattlesnakes while cropping up in the northeastern U.S., wildlife specialists said.