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Best Buy wants to satisfy all your consumer electronic needs. So while you're picking up a new laptop, smartphone, or some extra cables, you may soon be able to check out an electric car as well. Automotive News reports that Best Buy is considering selling electric vehicles. The chain already sells electric motorcycles.

The Internet phone service Skype will soon be part of Microsoft. The two companies' boards announced an agreement Tuesday in which Microsoft will buy Skype for $8.5 billion. This would be Microsoft's biggest acquisition ever.

Demand for used cars is up and so are the prices, according to a study by Kelly Blue Book. When the economy was really bad, car companies didn't produce as much. So now there are fewer 2008 and 2009 used cars.

As the Mississippi reached its high point in Memphis, Tenn., and attention turns to a time-consuming clean up, farmers downriver built homemade levees to protect their crops and engineers diverted water into a lake to ease the pressure on New Orleans levees.

The Syrian government has been rounding up protesters across the country, and the crackdown has been particularly harsh in Homs — the country's third-largest city. Soldiers have occupied the city and are searching house-to-house for those opposed to the regime of President Bashar Assad.

In Bridgeport, Conn., a man was arrested for dialing 9-1-1 dozens of times. He called three times on Sunday, and told emergency responders he was out of beer. He offered them money to go buy some.

Collins Official Scrabble Words has long been a go-to on the international Scrabble circuit. Until recently, that reference book didn't allow some very common words. Finally, Collins is adding nearly 3,000 new words to its official list.

Mississippi River crest is reaching Memphis; President Obama speaks on immigration; NATO airstrikes hit Tripoli, Libya; Microsoft may buy Skype, former California Gov. Schwarzenegger and wife Maria Shriver separate

Many have called the contenders for the GOP presidential nominee "uninspiring," but Walter Shapiro of The New Republic argues that the field provides a good set up for one candidate in particular: Newt Gingrich. Despite some blemishes on his record, Gingrich could just steal a win.

Naoto Kan said he will not accept his prime minister's salary until the crisis is over at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant, which was crippled by a March 11 earthquake and tsunami.