220/Universal recording artist Rachael Lampa will compete on Season 3 of the hit NBC series The Sing-Off, hosted by Nick Lachey.

The Dove Award winning recording artist, whose new album All We Need is due in stores on September 27th, will be part of a cappella group The Collective, a group of Nashville vocalists formed specifically for the series by Jeremy Lister of Season 2 runner-up Street Corner Symphony.

For its part, the National Football League pledged this week to donate $1 million toward Arlington's new Youth Education Town, to be built at the city's Salvation Army. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones agreed to match the NFL's contribution.

Arlington resident Richard Blake, 41, technical director and facilities manager of Creative Arts Theatre & School, a 32-year-old youth theater program known in Arlington as CATS, said he welcomes the infusion of money from the NFL, if only because the recession has crippled programs for kids.

Nearly 100 years after it struck an iceberg and sank, the Titanic has a new enemy: iron-eating bacteria.

A newly discovered microbe dubbed Halomonas titanicae is chewing its way through the wreck of the famous ship and leaving little behind except a fine dust, researchers report in today's issue of the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.

The hungry bug means that the wreck of the Titanic could vanish from the ocean floor far sooner than anyone expected.

Creation care is a blending of Christian beliefs and environmental stewardship. Groups such as the Evangelical Environmental Network have tried to blend the notion of going green with taking care of the Earth which God has provided.

In some circles, however, environmentalism has strayed away from its spiritual roots and the feelings with come from spending time alone in the natural world absent of human influences. Reclaiming that connection with nature is an important consideration as much of the environmental movement has become driven by policy and the politics surrounding global warming.