Mardi Gras organizers are vowing to hold the city's signature most celebrated party in February, despite two devastating hurricanes. Tourism officials and parade hosts appeared before the City Council to demand the annual pre-Lent celebration returns to the city this winter.

A group of Hurricane Rita evacuees find themselves in an unlikely shelter. Although they now have food, water, sufficient facilities, and a bed to sleep in, they can't help but wonder why they're in jail. Decker Jail in Dallas, Texas is one of the few facilities open that can house and feed hundreds of people.

A retired dentist is found not guilty Thursday in the death of a 4-month-old boy, who was poisoned after being given weed killer laced with arsenic at a cookout, instead of water. Constantine Pitsas, 77, was charged with involuntary manslaughter in the Aug. 9, 2003, fatal poisoning of Benjamin Glynn. and with seriously injuring the boy's 2-year-old sister, Morgan.

A young killer whale is using fish as bait to catch seagulls, and is teaching his companions the same method. First, the young whale spits regurgitated fish onto the surface of the water, then sinks below the water and waits.

An almost 40-year mystery is solved Friday when authorities rule that an Australian prime minister who disappeared Dec. 17, 1967 had drowned and was not assassinated or taken by a Chinese submarine. Harold Holt disappeared while swimming in the ocean in the southern state of Victoria after serving almost two years as prime minister.