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The owner of the revered Village Vanguard in New York City — and a champion of generations of jazz musicians, including Thelonious Monk — died Saturday at age 95.

There are five swift water rescue teams working the area, assisted by the Cajun Navy volunteer rescue group.

Los Angeles has set up a homeless shelter in an area where a lot of people are living on the streets. The goal is to help people transition to full-time housing. But nearby businesses are skeptical.

Thousands of students are expected to walk out of school on Friday to protest school violence. At one elementary school in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, many kids feel under threat every day.

Billy Mitchell, one of the two bitter rivals in 2007's King of Kong, just had his high scores stripped by video game record keepers — including a historic (and disputed) score featured in the film.

The parliament overwhelmingly elected Serzh Sargsyan prime minister Tuesday. But demonstrators are rejecting the move as a de facto third term for a man who has already governed for a decade.

Utah plans to send a statue of suffragette and senator Martha Hughes Cannon to represent the state in the U.S. Capitol. It's a subtle approach to changing perceptions of women in Utah.

The chair of the McLean County Democrats said Monday that his party plans to file a formal challenge to the signatures collected to put a referendum on…

The children were on a field trip when the airstrike hit their bus in Saada province, aid groups say. The coalition, which is backed by the U.S., says the strike was a "legitimate military action."

The state is poised to become the first in the country to require the panels on new single-family houses, with a few exceptions. The mandate will kick in as of 2020.