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An extraordinary effort to limit a widespread fish kill comes a week before the centennial celebration of the National Park Service.

Saturday's large quake immediately raised suspicions that it was linked to injection wells that oil and gas companies use as part of fracking and other operations.

"There is a threat of land inundation for the East Coast of New Zealand," the country's emergency agency said Sunday.

Death and taxes may be connected in ways Ben Franklin couldn't have imagined. Researchers found a six percent increase in fatal auto accidents on the day federal taxes are due. The most likely culprit: stress.

A big group of plastic surgeons say that chin enhancement was the fastest growing surgical procedure they performed for cosmetic purposes in the U.S. last year. More than 20,000 chin operations were performed in 2011, a 71 percent increase compared with 2010.

The analysis found new college grads were more likely to "be employed as waiters, waitresses, bartenders and food-service helpers than as engineers, physicists, chemists and mathematicians."

The case is the fourth in recent years, and did not present a risk to the food supply. The cow presented with an "atypical" case not usually associated with an animal consuming infected feed.

Forces loyal to President Bashar Assad continue to attack those who oppose the regime, activists say.

For those who can't get enough of polls about the presidential election, Gallup has fired up its "daily tracking" survey that will follow the levels of support for President Obama and presumed GOP nominee Mitt Romney.

Opposition activists said in the past two days, 80 people have been killed.