Hurley's World

It's a Monday morning, and Vince Cefalu just got into work at his more than $150,000-a-year-job as a special agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

His was the first face of a missing child to appear on the back of a milk carton. Now, nearly 31 years to the day since Etan Patz vanished from a New York street, authorities are reopening his case.

Homegrown terrorism will be part of the United States' National Security Strategy for the first time, according to President Barack Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser, who called it a new phase of the terrorist threat.

Facebook, in a rare move, is expected to reverse itself Wednesday on changes to privacy settings after sustained backlash from users worried about how their private information is being used.

Art Linkletter, the easygoing emcee famed for his long-running hosting gigs of the radio show "House Party" and the TV shows "People Are Funny" and "Kids Say the Darndest Things," has died, his publicist said. He was 97.

In an ever-evolving, increasingly crowded beverage market, Starbucks is waking up and smelling the coffee. The problem is it's not their house blend.

Lawmakers increasingly frustrated with the pace of response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are calling on President Obama to take charge of the situation,­ and soon.

When Mark Shields started his job at the American Red Cross in Madison, Wisconsin, he rolled up his sleeve to give blood. It made sense. Part of his job was encouraging the public to donate and supporting the organization's lifesaving mission.

Police chiefs from about a dozen cities are scheduled to meet with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday to talk about concerns they have with Arizona's new immigration law.

Highway construction could come to a screeching halt this summer due to a shortage of paint.

Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, is scheduled to appear at a book convention in New York City on Wednesday, undeterred by a scandal that she allegedly offered to sell access to her former husband, Britain's Prince Andrew.

Most Fortune 500 CEOs are about as accessible as Kim Jong Il, but Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been breaking the mold. He's sent terse e-mail replies to more than a dozen customer inquiries -- and one journalist -- in the past few months.

Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, announced Wednesday that he is filing legislation requiring federal oil industry regulators to wait at least two years after leaving government service before going to work for companies they helped regulate.

Between May and June, on college campuses throughout the country, you can sense a level of excitement that is usually reserved for $1 beer night or when parents finally drive away after a weekend visit.

Space shuttle Atlantis is set to land Wednesday morning, ending the orbiter's stellar 25-year career.

Oil company BP had three indications of trouble aboard the doomed drill rig Deepwater Horizon in the hour before the April 20 explosion that sank the offshore platform, congressional investigators reported Tuesday.

The United States soccer team will unveil on Wednesday its final 23-man team for next month's World Cup championships in South Africa.

Several thousand barrels of crude oil spilled into a containment area along the Alaska pipeline Tuesday when an open valve at a pump station allowed oil to overflow a tank, the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company said.

So you're in the market for a new vehicle. Any chance you'd consider one with more than 100 million miles on the odometer, a neat white paint job and a sticker price of $28.8 million ? Probably not.