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A jury has returned a record setting malpractice verdict in Ford County. The $950,000 award more than doubled the previous high mark set in 2007. The…

A new square dance group in Kansas City is putting a gender-neutral spin on the traditional American art form.

Legislatures and city halls are battling over who gets to set the minimum wage, and increasingly, the states are winning. Business groups argue that complying with disparate city laws is too complex.

In Burlington, Vt., the city's Department of Public Works is giving citizens the permission and the tools to remake their own streets. But not everyone thinks that's a good idea.

When Taylor Swift brought her tour to Kansas City and then started dating NFL star Travis Kelce, it helped boost the city's economy.

The Israeli military says an order for nearly a million people to march south is "inevitable" -- and the assault has already begun.

Staff Sgt. Ryan Knauss was wounded in the Kabul airport bombing and later died. He's believed to be the last American fatality of the war. "If he had a crystal ball, he'd do it again," his wife said.

For millions, the pandemic has meant a loss of income even as food prices are rising. The challenge for parents and grandparents is how to feed the youngsters in the family — and themselves as well.

Scott Simon talks to novelist David Wright Falade about his new book, "Black Cloud Rising," about the leader of an all-Black brigade in the Civil War.

Southern Sudan is at peace for the first time in more than two decades. During Sudan's bloody, 21-year civil war, a group of American women working with war victims promised to build a girl's school in Akon, a remote village in Southern Sudan. Now, they're fighting to deliver on that promise. NPR's Charlayne Hunter-Gault returned to Akon with the women from Boston and has the second part of their story.