The comedy world has lost one of its greatest performers. George Carlin, the Grammy-Award winning standup comedian and actor who was hailed for his irreverent social commentary, died of heart failure on Sunday. He was 71.

Thousands of marijuana plants are discovered on a hidden farm located on a Girl Scout camp in Indiana. According to police documents, state troopers arrested three people, including a juvenile, after spotting the plots from a plane.

Authorities say a 33-year-old Michigan man wore a T-shirt proclaiming "World's Greatest Dad" when he showed up for what he thought would be a sexual rendezvous with a 14-year-old girl. The man was arrested.

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The Michigan attorney general's office released this photograph of suspect Daniel Allen Everett shortly after his arrest.

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Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign is a sign that America's racial divisions are eroding, right? Not exactly. A New York Times/CBS News poll finds blacks and whites deeply divided on Obama and his rival, Republican John McCain, as well as the state of race relations as a whole. The Times has the full story.

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A small town in Missouri realizes an environmentalist's dream: powering the entire region with wind turbines. Rock Port becomes the first community in the U.S. to operate solely on wind power. "That's something to be very proud of," one engineer says.