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President Obama on Wednesday will announce his nominee for the Supreme Court seat left vacant by Antonin Scalia's death. Sri Srinivasan is among the top contenders; he's South Asian and Hindu.

California lawmakers are expected to approve a proposal to reclassify Uber drivers and other contract workers in the state as employees, giving them more rights and benefits at employers' expense.

One year after a young man died in a shark attack, Cape Cod beach towns are adding emergency services and high-tech detection. An influx of great whites followed a rebound in the seal population.

Veteran Cleveland radio and television personality Mike Olszewski found out what an impression the hosts of Cleveland children’s television shows made, during a conversation he had with a man who grew up in Northeast Ohio. Olszewski asked the man if he could remember the name of his eighth grade principal. The man couldn’t recall it, but he knew the answer to the next question: Who is Barnaby's butterfly? “Oh, that was Cicero,” the man quickly replied, Olszewski said.

Civica Rx has plans to become an alternative source of generic drugs at reasonable prices for hospitals. The company's first medicines will be the antibiotics vancomycin and daptomycin.

In less than two years, the Chinese brand has opened 2,300 stores — second in China only to Starbucks. The company went public on Nasdaq on Friday. And it's losing millions.

A Chicago woman found an unfinished quilt of the United States at an estate sale and sought help online to finish it. Quilters from around the country joined her last weekend to complete the project.

Kids, manners and the holidays. We have expert advice on how to expect and encourage behavior that makes for great family memories.

An outside group is blanketing the nation with official-looking exhortations to register to vote. Actual elections officials don't agree whether that's ultimately helpful or harmful.

United Way of Greater Cleveland says it is sharpening its focus by targeting only a small group of organizations for funding in an effort to reduce poverty. But Cleveland Scene reporter Sam Allard says the organization is trying to sugarcoat what he is calling an overall reduction in funding for charities.