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Baseball's Oakland Athletics today plays its final game at the Coliseum before leaving town for good. The Coliseum was once home to the Raiders and Golden State Warriors both also left Oakland.

Clark County, home to Las Vegas, and Reno’s Washoe County are reliably Democratic — and where nearly 90% of Nevadans live. The Silver State’s other 15 counties are heavily conservative. We vist Nye County.

It's a championship weekend in sports: the NBA Finals, the Stanley Cup, and perhaps a Triple Crown? NPR's Scott Simon talks with NPR's Tom Goldman about the upcoming sporting events.

Illinois is holding more than $5 billion worth of unclaimed property. Residents can check for themselves rather than waiting for the state program to find a match.

Human Rights Watch issued a new report Tuesday examining the legality of the CIA's post-9/11 detention and interrogation program. It is expected to challenge the Obama administration's conclusions that it is impossible to prosecute the CIA officers and others involved in the program.

For years Luis Montero Adams and his sister Stephanie Machado, who are U.S. citizens but lived in Mexico, traveled across the border to attend U.S. schools. Then Sept. 11 forced them to make a choice.

The 1975 cult classic Rocky Horror Picture Show will be screened with a live shadow cast and special guest Nell Campbell on Friday, Oct. 11, at the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts.

Numerous Olympic athletes have come forward with allegations of sexual abuse or assault. Yet others do not, fearing retaliation or a derailing of their athletic careers.

The 1997 documentary Hands on a Hard Body followed the contestants in a Texas car dealership competition: Hopefuls had to keep one hand on a brand-new fully loaded truck, and the last person standing kept it. As Neda Ulaby reports, that surprisingly dramatic story is now being made into a musical.

Two shootings hours apart in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas left 29 people dead and dozens injured.