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Police in Amsterdam responded in full force to a man singing along to an opera playing in his headphones, because they thought his life was in danger. After kicking in the door, they all had a good laugh.

The once-great gambling town has made a deal with New Jersey to turn it's finances around. Christian Hetrick, who's been following the story for the Press in Atlantic City updates Scott Simon.

In Minnesota, 30 mushers will take off with their teams of sled dogs for the 32nd running of the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon. That's a far cry from the 74 mushers who competed back in 2004.

A recent report by the Office of Inspector General says male park employees demanded sex and punished those who refused. A note: this story contains descriptions some listeners may find disturbing.

The long-awaited novel follows a famous opera singer on her journey of constant reinvention. Despite the 19th century France setting, Chee admits there are autobiographical elements.

In 1966, Stokely Carmichael popularized the slogan of “black power.” In the late 1960s, Little Rock’s Bobby Brown formed the city’s own black power group…

In 1948, Silas Hunt became the first African American student to enroll in a southern university in the twentieth century when he joined the University of…

By 1964, a decade after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision, only 24 of 226 biracial school districts in…

On Memorial Day, May 31, 1971, Carnell Russ was driving back home to Monticello from his in-laws in Benton with his wife and children. Just north of Star…

Daisy Lee Gatson Bates was born in the small south Arkansas sawmill town of Huttig in 1913. When she was still a child, her mother was murdered by a group…