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Chevron reported its highest quarterly earnings ever. Shell had its second-biggest quarter, and ExxonMobil doubled its earnings compared with the same time last year.

Beef prices are continuing to rise due to drought, low herd sizes and concerns about the new world screwworm in the United States, but business owners in Texas say that raising prices could drive away customers.

The explosion of online gambling and sports betting, as well as the advertising behind it, is attracting a growing number of young people, most of them boys.

In veiled conversations, some doctors may explain to dying patients how to hasten death. But overwhelmed families are left with profound questions and the feeling that no one can answer them.

Businessman and philanthropist Mark Ein announced that he's buying Washington City Paper — allowing the local news source to continue. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with managing editor Caroline Jones about what the change means for the paper's future.

George Zeller, the meticulous Cleveland economist who tracked the fortunes of Northeast Ohio’s poorest residents through industrial upheaval and painstaking recovery, died over the weekend after a fire at his West Side home. He was 71. The blaze was an accidental electrical fire, Cleveland Division of Fire spokesman Lt. Michael Norman said.

Critic Juan Vidal says Kafka's classic tale of alienation — published 100 years ago this month — helped bring about a metamorphosis in his own life (though rather more positive than Gregor Samsa's).

Neil Gaiman says his latest novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, started out as a short story that just didn't stop growing. Originally, it was also a simple story about a young boy — but morphed into a much darker tale about being a child in dangerous territory.

Can the warmth of a parent's chest be a boon to babies, especially premature births? In the 1970s, Colombian researchers found it did. The technique has gone global. Ivory Coast is the latest convert.

In 1969, Ohio State Hospital rolled out the nation's first mobile coronary care vehicle. The Heartmobile's legacy can now be found in ambulances nationwide.