The Reds traded infielder Jeff Keppinger to the Houston Astros today for a player to be named. The Reds will get a minor leaguer in the deal. The trade means either Paul Janish or Adam Rosales will make the team as a utility infielder.

The Board of Education postponed a decision on cuts for next year’s budget, which could cost thousands of jobs. They’ll revisit the issue April 14.

Los Angeles Unified School District officials Tuesday approved $140.6 million in budget cuts, but postponed a more difficult decision that could have cost thousands of jobs. At a packed meeting marked by demonstrations and impassioned speeches, the Board of Education acted on only one of two measures recommended by Supt. Ramon C. Cortines.

Budget cuts have forced the famed Moscow theater to cancel an opera premiere and a ballet tour of Mexico — indignities for a cultural gem that has thrived through generations of shifting empires.

Soon, the curtain will rise. Backstage, sopranos’ scales slip from dressing rooms and costume matrons fly down corridors on tiptoe, gowns and wigs slung over their shoulders. From the orchestra pit rises the piping of flutes, the saw of strings and the squall of brass.

Mar. 31 - The new chief executive of General Motors says the company’s turnaround plan will include new buyout programs for its union workers and more plant closings.

DEAR CARRIE: I am a nonunion employee at a midsize private company. Our compensation package calls for annual merit increases after employees meet or exceed goals established at the beginning of the year. Even though many employees met or surpassed their 2008 goals, the company and the board recently decided to withdraw the bonuses. They were payable this year. Can an employer withhold a pay increase already earned? Assuming the company doesn’t relent, do employees have any recourse?

Separate state and federal civil lawsuits were filed Tuesday against BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. over two spills at the nation’s largest oil field three years ago. The federal government filed its lawsuit Tuesday alleging violations of federal clean air and…

Well, that’s one less recovering drug addict for New York. Rush Limbaugh, the conservative talk show king, announced this week that he’s ditching his New York digs and finding another alternate location for his top-rated show in the wake of Gov. Paterson’s “stupid, punitive, massive tax increases.”

Desperate but divided on ways to lift their nations from economic misery, world leaders converged for an emergency summit Tuesday holding scant hopes of finding a magic-bullet solution for the crisis that brought them hurrying to London. Even as President Barack Obama and the others were arriving, the U.S. acknowledged its allies would not go along with a massive burst of stimulus spending, while Europe was forced to backpedal from hopes for tighter financial regulation.

The new Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu wins confirmation in parliament, but the new prime minister is heckled and there are signs the political road may be rocky.

Benjamin Netanyahu, taking office as Israeli prime minister amid heckling by leftist and Arab lawmakers, offered Tuesday to seek a “permanent arrangement” for limited Palestinian self-rule.

MONTCLAIR, N.J. - Twenty-one schools in north Jersey could get software to help diagnose whether student athletes have concussions.