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Today, as results come in across the country, NPR reporters will be updating this breaking news blog in real time. The NPR Politics team, along with...

Another Columbus principal has been officially fired for her role in a grade and attendance rigging scandal.The school board on Tuesday night voted…

Levi Bliss proposed to his girlfriend Allison Barron near a hill in Nevada. Then her dad stood on top of the nearby hill with a sign: "Say no." It was a joke, though. She said yes.

Water treatment operations along Lake Erie and beyond welcome word the state is setting aside $150 million for upgrades to help them battle an escalating…

In a climate where every story about an orchestra or ensemble speaks of dwindling audiences and income, there is good news just a couple of hours south of…

Beethoven's stern visage stares at us from a shelf in the corner, his stony gaze locked in time. He might not have taken too kindly to Peter Schickele's…

Here is the first of what we hope will be a regular feature on the new Classical 101 website: a roundup of some top classical music stories we've been…

A man climbed to the top of Philadelphia's City Hall, about 500 feet up. City officials only found out after he posted a video on YouTube.

The Pfizer drug company agrees to pay a $430 million fine and plead guilty to illegal marketing practices, U.S. prosecutors say. The unprecedented fine comes after the company admitted that its Warner-Lambert unit promoted Neurontin, an epilepsy drug, for several unapproved uses. The drug remains a top seller for Pfizer, with 2003 sales of $2.7 billion. NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports.

James Nicholson, the top official at the Department of Veterans Affairs, says he will leave his post by Oct. 1. Under Nicholson, the agency was criticized for being unprepared to care for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.