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The state is part of New England, but many of its football fans pick the N.Y. Giants over the Pats. "Way back when, they were the only game in town," one fan says of the days before the Patriots came to the area in 1960. But feelings run deep on both sides — and nothing reveals that like a Super Bowl.

The host and executive producer of the long-running show died Wednesday morning.

Weather and tree branches cause 40 percent of U.S. power outages, which get people talking about installing underground lines — but they balk at the price. But analysts say no one's paying attention to how much it really costs to keep repairing aboveground lines, and that should matter.

Dozens of abortion restrictions passed in the states during 2011 — nearly a record since the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. This year, anti-abortion groups say they'll focus on bills that would ban abortions at 20 weeks, limit insurance coverage and grant constitutional rights to embryos.

This is the second unionizing attempt in the past year at Amazon. Workers are able to refile a petition later.

The country's oldest orchestra, Handel and Haydn Society, reached the end of Mozart's "Masonic Funeral," when a child exclaimed, "Wow." The group is looking for the child to give them a recording.

Every day, four new dollar stores will open in the U.S. Dollar stores open in places where few other businesses will go: rural and urban areas. They're threatening businesses that survived Walmart.

The chef, who was questioned for five hour, persuaded them not to take his piranhas. The Los Angeles Times reports the Peruvian chef was invited to cook at Los Angeles restaurants.

NPR's Steve Inkseep talks to Jonathan Shaub, formerly an attorney with the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, about what precedent the impasse between Congress and the White House can set.

Weeks after Thai voters went to the polls, the country's election commission has revealed the allocation of seats that will make up the parliament. Neither party received a majority.