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Empty lots have multiplied in parts of Chicago in recent years, so the city is selling them to homeowners dirt cheap. It's an effort to spark renewal in some of the city's most blighted areas.

"Hyper-local micro-schools" bring the tiny school into the digital age.

A plastic jar of animal crackers was too enticing for a young bear in New Jersey, which got its head irretrievably wedged

StoryCorps, the team that brings you conversations between loved ones, is now highlighting voices of the LGBTQ community. OutLoud brings a story about losing a partner while living in the closet.

Some parts of the program come "close to the line of constitutional reasonableness," so the board is offering some proposals to fix those concerns.

Emily Gould's first novel stars 30-something single women in New York City who are figuring out what's important in life. It's worth picking up for its sharp social observations and inspired wordplay.

If you're going to be downbeat, glum, or morose, it's best to do it the way Timothy Showalter does it.

Douglas County’s new fiscal year budget includes additional funding for mental health support services.Commissioners approved the $341.1 million budget…

The independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has offered recommendations on how to reform one of the surveillance programs deployed by the National Security Agency. The privacy board found that the program, which was revealed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, is constitutional and free of abuse, but it's still proposing reforms.

Files detailing Nebraska's homesteading history have been digitized and are now available to the public. The milestone's part of a larger effort by the Homestead Digitization Project to put all homesteading documents from around the U.S. online. For more on the subject, Robert Siegel speaks with historian Blake Bell from the Homestead National Monument in Beatrice, Neb.