The Associated Press

The American Red Cross says it's on track to erase a $210 million deficit and balance its budget by next year.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference hopes to mobilize 50,000 people in the Mississippi Delta this summer in a campaign to draw attention to the poverty of a region where some Americans still live in homes with dirt floors and brown water flows from their faucets.

The North Carolina Symphony has all the money it needs. But in this economy, the orchestra isn't allowed to touch it.