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Crime novelist Sue Grafton has died at the age of 77. She was famous for her mystery series featuring the recurring protagonist and private eye Kinsey Millhone.

In that game, a small Pennsylvania college, backed by a black quarterback, battled the University of California, Berkeley to the only tie in the history of the game.

Music mogul Russell Simmons has been accused of sexual misconduct and rape by several women. His case may have unique cultural impact because of his role as one of the founding fathers of hip hop.

Major tech companies, small websites and many others are making their case Wednesday in support of an open Internet. Most are protesting plans by the Federal Communications Commission to undo net neutrality, or open Internet, rules.

Fordham University graduate student Matthew Combs studies the DNA of New York City's rats. He found that rats living uptown are genetically distinct from rats living downtown.

The Great Lakes states have produced several influential African-Americans in the sciences. There’s astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson -- he’s from New...

In the past week, China has pressed its territorial claims in the South and East China seas, opening a cinema on a disputed island and intercepting a U.S. surveillance plane in an "unsafe" encounter.

Campfires, singalongs, and ... zombies? Summer camps can impart all kinds of new skills. One camp in suburban Denver is teaching kids how to survive an uprising of the undead.

More than 150 years ago, the Great Lakes region played a key role in the Underground Railroad. Runaway slaves made their way to cities along the lakes...

The campaign ads represent one way that women are increasingly willing to break the mold of the standard candidate, in a year with record numbers of women running for office.