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Video stores are going nonprofit to survive as community archives, and the latest shop to try it is in Portland, Oregon.

Oklahoma is replacing the playing cards sold in the prison canteens with new decks featuring the faces of victims from unsolved homicides. Other states have similar programs and the idea is working.

Doctors and others working on the country's opioid epidemic are welcoming President Trump's declaration of a public health emergency, but they say it's not enough.

Allan Simmons has been accused of cheating in a professional Scrabble Championship in June. The former British Scrabble champion has now been banned from professional competition after he was found to have peeked at the tiles he was drawing.

In Virginia, religious leaders are trying to comfort their congregations and address the complicated racial tensions facing the city.

The state of Virginia is rethinking how it issues permits for demonstrations following the deadly violence in Charlottesville over the weekend. And, local police are defending their response.

After 35 years, the Akron Global Business Accelerator has rebranded itself as Bounce, Akron’s Innovation Hub.The person at the head of that hub is newly…

The New York Times apologized this week for using the term "mistress" to describe the great-grandmother of the late Julian Bond. Linguist Ben Zimmer explains the controversy surrounding the word.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks about southern history with William Ferris, associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Some businesses are removing Confederate flag imagery following last week's fatal shootings at a S.C. black church. But not every business is handling the Confederate flag issue in the same way.