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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.

In the middle of their first week back at work at the Statehouse since their spring break, House Republican leaders paused to parade out their slate of...

In the middle of their first week back at work at the Statehouse since their spring break, House Republican leaders paused to parade out their slate of...

It was not in the cards for Franklin County democratic incumbents in yesterday’s primary. A long-time county commissioner lost her seat as a top county…

Authorities say a plane carrying a wing walker has crashed at an Ohio air show, killing the pilot and stunt walker. Dayton International Airport…