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1970 was a bummer of a year: violence, political unrest and the end of The Beatles. Fire and Rain, a new book by David Browne, chronicles that turbulent year in politics and music.

If humanoid robots make you a bit queasy — would it help if they had fleshy faces that can smile at you?

State Rep. Joe Miller (D-Amherst) is a delegate at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He believes Ohio is still at-play in the November election.

A toxic asset like one purchased by NPR's Planet Money is the subject of a lawsuit. A New Jersey carpenters union invested $100,000 in a mortgage-backed bond now worth $5,000. It wants payback.

Traffic fatalities in Ohio, and across the country, increased 26% in the last decade, according to a new report from TRIP, a national transportation research nonprofit.

When Cara Beth Rogers was studying abroad in college, her brother died in an accident. On the plane ride home, a stranger made her overwhelming grief a bit easier to bear.

Not long after chemotherapy for ovarian cancer, Mary Fran Lyons was walking through a mall, self-conscious about losing her hair. Then a stranger came up to her and gave her hope.

"Don't let my glad expression give you the wrong impression," Smokey Robinson sings — but no one could mistake the face of Gags, the Green Bay Clown, for anything other than grim. What's his story?

The quake shook Japan's southern main island of Kyushu late Tuesday afternoon local time, causing damage and injuries.

Some 32,000 students from the for-profit Kaplan University will join Purdue University in Indiana as part of a deal announced recently.