Growing number of kids have high blood pressure

Hospital visits for kids with high blood pressure has doubled in a 10-year period

Electric car battery company hits road bumps

Despite winning 249 million in stimulus dollars, A123 experienced two battery recalls, slow demand and layoffs

Vow of poverty doesn't stop friar from signing record deal

Friar Alessandro Brustenghi may have taken a vow of poverty, but that hasn't stopped him from signing a record contract

U.S. points finger at Russia on Syria conflict

Obama administration singles out Russia for supporting Assad and sending Syrian regime attack helicopters

• U.N. observers halt operations in Syria
• A look at the front lines of Syria's civil war
• Syrian rebel city of Homs turns to ghost town

Suu Kyi receives Nobel Peace Prize in person

Scott Pelley talks to Aung Suu Kyi about her years-long struggle for democracy

U-2 spy plane pilot gets Silver Star

Francis Gary Powers, Jr., the pilot whose plane was downed by the Soviets in 1960, receives posthumous honor

Tim's Place restaurant run by special owner

Tim Harris, who has Down syndrome, owns and operates an Albuquerque restaurant that serves breakfast, lunch and thousands of hugs

Families' net worths have fallen in last 20 years

Rick Snyder's 401(k) has dropped 40 percent; Average U.S. family has seen net worth fall back to 1992 level

Fallen soldiers' families: War's other casualties

More than 2,000 Americans have now died in Afghanistan, but thousands more lives have been turned upside-down with grief

In Chinese activist's hometown, pain lingers

Chen Guangcheng's family back in Dongshigu village, China, describe torture, arrests and intense surveillance since he left

U.S. finds way around Pakistan route blockage

Even as talks break down over reopening NATO supply routes through Afghanistan, the U.S. military stays well-supplied

• Afghanistan tunnel carries risks for NATO

"Bionic men" sing praises of next-gen prosthetic

Massachusetts company's BiOM ankle is a machine packed with processors, gyroscopes and motors that responds to the force applied to it

Flooding forces Fla. to declare state of emergency

More than 13 inches of rain has fallen in Pensacola, Florida forcing Escambia County officials to declare a state of emergency

American textile industry jobs hanging by a thread

Designer denim may be breathing new life into the struggling industry

Hope for high school dropouts

With even bleaker job prospects, an innovative program is helping many dropouts get back on track

Balancing technology and safety in cars

The Department of Transportation is issuing new guidelines for car companies to cut down on distracted driving incidents

• Distracted driving crackdown targets hands-free devices

Student who doubled as high school's custodian now Harvard-bound

Dawn Loggins was left homeless by her parents; When a fellow custodian took her in, she "took off," rising to the top of her class