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The owners have not voted, however, on prohibiting crown hits by ball carriers outside the tackle box.

SXSW is a festival that you can curate to your own taste: quick hits, big names, unknowns, or some of everything. But no matter what kind of festival you have, there will be moments when a band just cuts through the noise. Here are a handful of the most transporting moments from this year's festival.

Housing season seems to have arrived early in some places where homebuying is already frenzied, and in many markets, the pendulum has swung from an excess of homes on the market a few years ago to a shortage.

Twinkies, Ho Hos and Ding Dongs will go to a pair of private equity firms. Wonder Bread will be sold to snack food maker Flowers Food. The Beefsteak brand of bread will go to a Mexican company.

During a two-day tour, President Obama will deliver a speech to students and visit Ramallah in the West Bank. Obama isn't in the region with a great plan to restart peace talks, instead he's expected to simply try to connect with the Israeli people.

South Korean officials say they suspect that Pyongyang could be the source of the outage, which affected three broadcasters and two banks.

At 7:02 a.m. ET, the sun crossed the celestial equator, marking the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere. That news is little comfort to cities like Chicago, Buffalo or Minneapolis, which will see highs in the 20s today.

A new Supreme Court ruling may provide a boost to a company that wants to be like a used record store for MP3s.

Many parents and teachers in the nation's cities are disappointed by a long list of school closings. But when enrollment is low and costs are high, administrators face tough decisions. Host Michel Martin speaks to the Chancellor of Washington D.C.'s public schools, Kaya Henderson, about how school systems weigh these difficult choices.

Like many of the songs on John Grant's new album, Pale Green Ghosts, "It Doesn't Matter To Him" mixes self-effacing humor with real-life heartbreak, to the sounds of acoustic guitar and snow-blown synths.