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Chillicothe is giving up a decade-old fight against a gravel pit just outside the city's western edge.

A new study suggests kids in poor countries benefit hugely from having older sisters — who are more likely than brothers or even mothers — to engage in stimulating play.

Homelessness in Los Angeles is becoming more dangerous. One percent of LA's population lives on the streets or in shelters, but in 2019, homeless people made up about 17% of its homicide victims.

Guinness World Records has certified two sisters as the world's oldest living identical twins at 107, in an announcement Monday coinciding with Respect for the Aged Day, a national holiday in Japan.

The award-winning film, The Magdalene Sisters, examines a now-defunct practice of the Catholic Church in Ireland. More than 30,000 women and young girls considered "immoral" were sent to live in "Magdalene Asylums." Their sins, sometimes as benign as flirting, earned these women a life of hard labor and punishment. Los Angeles Times and Morning Edition film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.

Author and playwright Pearl Cleage's success has helped her to become one of the preeminent authors of African-American women's fiction. She talks about her new book, Babylon Sisters, centering on a mother and daughter making the best of life and love in Atlanta.

The sister of the late musician Prince told the Evening Standard that Prince's favorite color was ... orange. Prince was known for his song "Purple Rain" and was called "The Purple One."

On its latest album, Bayti Fi Rasi, the trio tells a story of their relatives fleeing Yemen and arriving in Israel as part of Operation Magic Carpet in 1949.

The sisters attached their lists to balloons and released them outside. About 500 miles away, Alvin Bamburg spotted a balloon in a tree. The Washington Post reports he got the girls what they wanted.