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James Patterson & Scholastic Reading Club Working To Save School Libraries

Barbara Gray has information about bestselling author James Patterson's collaboration with the Scholastic Reading Club to support school libraries.For…

Warm Weather Means It's Time For Salsa On The Square

Dancers and music lovers are preparing for the 8th year of Salsa on the Square, starting May 5 on Fountain Square.Nicholas Radina, the organizer of Salsa…

Meet The Man Behind The Costumes In Disney On Ice Presents Frozen

Fans of the Disney megahit film Frozen can now enjoy the familiar music and the characters on skates as Disney On Ice presents Frozen at U.S. Bank Arena,…

Book Review: "Trampoline: An Illustrated Novel" by Robert Gipe

Book Review: Roberta Schultz shares a review of Kentucky author Robert Gipe’s book, Trampoline: An Illustrated Novel, published by Ohio University Press.

The U.S. Treasury Plan To Update The Images On U.S. Currency

Last week U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced that an image of former slave and abolitionist Harriet Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson's picture…

Robert Bates arrives for his arraignment at the Tulsa County Courthouse in Tulsa, Okla., on April 21, 2015. Bates has been convicted of second-degree manslaughter.

Ex-Reserve Deputy Who Confused Gun With Taser, Killing Suspect, Is Convicted

Robert Bates, a volunteer with the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office in Oklahoma, killed Eric Harris in a sting operation last year. The jury found him guilty of second-degree manslaughter.

People march in the Penn North neighborhood of Baltimore on Wednesday, the anniversary of the funeral of Freddie Gray.

Baltimore Police Chief Discusses Shooting Of Boy Carrying Replica Pistol

Police Commissioner Kevin Davis says detectives mistook the replica for a real gun and describes the boy's injuries as nonfatal. The shooting happened on the anniversary of Freddie Gray's funeral.

Cybil Preston, chief apiary inspector for the Maryland Department of Agriculture, does a training run with Mack: She sets up fake beehives and commands him to "find." He sniffs each of them to check for American foulbrood. He has been trained to sit to notify Preston if he detects the disease.

Keeping Bees Safe: It's A Ruff Job, But This Doggy Detective Gets It Done

Mack is the newest addition to the Maryland Department of Agriculture's apiary inspection team. He uses his superior sniffer to find hives infected with a contagious disease that kills bee colonies.

John Boehner busted out the tissues when he left the House, but he's cutting loose now that he's gone.

Boehner Says He's Never 'Worked With A More Miserable Son Of A Bitch' Than Cruz

John Boehner went with radical honesty at a recent college event, also calling presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz "Lucifer in the flesh."

A British Airways plane departs London's Heathrow Airport in 2010. Earlier this month, a British Airways plane was hit by an unidentified object but landed safely at Heathrow.

Not A Drone After All? Unclear What Hit That British Airways Plane

The incident prompted calls for more drone regulation, but a U.K. lawmaker now says it probably was not a drone that struck the plane. And an investigation has ended because of a lack of evidence.

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