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We dig into the NPR audio archives for another installment of a our feature "First Mention" to hear the initial use on air of the term "Wikipedia."

State elevator investigators were at Stradley Hall on the Ohio State campus Monday morning. Workers are trying to determine why a dormitory elevator began…

The Roman coins, stashed away soon after they'd been minted, had been buried in a field for more than 1,700 years. Then a farmer saw something shimmering.

In the Philadelphia Orchestra trumpeter's slightly twisted world, bears play bass trombones, Liszt has a brother named Bukhett and snowblowers can be filed as musical instrument deductions.

For our VIP game, we narrate a slightly fictitious day in the life of Peter Sarsgaard.

Spanish composer Enrique Granados wrote his set of 8 Poetic Waltzes for the piano, but they sound wonderful performed on the guitar, too. Now just add an…

After the terror attacks in Paris, law enforcement in New York City and Washington, D.C., have been taking security precautions, though officials says there have been no credible threats in the U.S.

In 50 years, Amelia Boynton Robinson went from being beaten on a bridge in Selma, Ala., to being pushed across the bridge in a wheelchair alongside the president of the United States.

After controversial pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli left the hearing on Capitol Hill, the representatives' attention turned to why prices for some drugs are rising so steeply.

A judge Monday formally dismissed the charges against former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing. He was charged with murder and...