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Fire tore quickly through a house in northeastern Pennsylvania, horrifying a volunteer firefighter who arrived to battle the blaze only to discover the victims were his own family.

Residents in Asheville, N.C., got their first supplies of water Monday, days after the remnants of Hurricane Helene blitzed the mountainous region with rain, wind and floods that killed dozens.

It's not so easy to get rid of a historic bridge. Washington state has one and doesn't know what to do with it. Historic preservation is butting up against safety and infrastructure needs, so the state is offering $1 million for anyone who will come and take the old bridge off their hands.

It's Match Week, when med students apply for residencies. An economist argues this residency system is a key reason why U.S. doctors are paid around twice much as doctors in other rich nations.

Peter Baker covered the George W. Bush administration for The New York Times. In his new book, Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House, Baker takes a second look at those controversial years.

Genetically modified seeds for purple tomatoes hit the market for home gardeners recently. But how did a purple tomato get splashed across the cover of a seed catalog specializing in non-GMO plants?

Want to see the most vibrant wildflowers in SoCal? Find out where to go via a weekly hotline that has been providing wildflower reports for over 40 years, voiced by actor Joe Spano.

In Los Angeles, lots of people spent the last couple of days anxious about the arrival of Tropical Storm Hilary. Here's a look at what Southern California expected, versus what it experienced.

On July 14th, NASA's New Horizons mission will reach its long-awaited destination: Pluto. The spacecraft left Earth in 2006. Since then, it's traveled more than 3 billion miles. NPR's Arun Rath talks with planetary scientist Carolyn Porco about the mission.

Louisiana State University's live tiger mascot is an institution. Recently, the school got a new tiger — just in time for football season.