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Ahead of Super Tuesday, candidates for Alabama's new congressional seat are hoping for high turnout among young Black voters.

An empty Boeing Starliner is scheduled to return from the International Space Station in early September. It will fly home autonomously while its crew remains in space until February.

Governor Josh Stein announced Wednesday that the state will offer rewards for help solving two local murder cases. North Carolina is offering $25,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for the murders of 80-year-old Charles Williams and three-year-old Myisha Angle in Salisbury last August. They were asleep when more than 30 shots were fired into their house, killing them both.In Stanly County, the state is offering a $25,000 reward for information in the murder of six-year-old Chance Douglas Smith near Locust in 2003. He was found in a horse pasture with a head wound after being reported missing and died shortly after.

From William Gibson, who popularized cyberpunk, Distrust That Particular Flavor debuts at No. 14.

While the Carolina Panthers are in talks to upgrade their stadium, they also need to figure out who will play in it next season. The team is more than $10…

Writer ALEC WILKINSON remembers his friend and mentor WILLIAM MAXWELL who died Monday at the age of 91. Wilkinson is a staff writer for the New Yorker, and has been there since 1980.His book, –Midnights: A Year With the Wellfleet Police— (Hungry Mind Press) was recently released in paperback. (Note: this is a new interview, not a repeat.)We listen to rebroadcast of a 1995 interview with WILLIAM MAXWELL. MAXWELL was fiction editor of the New Yorker from 1936-1976 and worked with such authors as J.D. Salinger, John Cheever, John Updike, Eudora Welty and scores of others. MAXWELL was the author of a number of novels, including "Time Will Darken It," and "So Long, See You Tomorrow," as well as several short story collections. In 1995 a collection of his stories was published in the book "All The Days and Nights." John Updike has said Maxwell's voice is "one of the wisest in American fiction. It is, as well, one of the kindest. " (REBROADCAST from 3/29/95) (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW)12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (1:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:

The jury deliberated for about an hour before finding William George Davis guilty of capital murder. Davis was accused of injecting air into four patients' arteries after they underwent heart surgery.

William Halsted is credited with creating the United States' first surgical residency program and transforming the way operating rooms are sterilized. He was also a morphine addict. Plastic surgeon Gerald Imber details Halsted's dual lives in the new biography Genius on the Edge.

On June 12, 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers was shot dead in the driveway of his Mississippi home. The assassination made Evers the first in a line of civil rights leaders to be cut down in the 1960s, and his murder prompted President Kennedy to ask Congress for a civil rights bill, which was signed into law by President Johnson the next year.

"OMG," from Usher's just-released Raymond vs. Raymond, marks something of a departure for the singer. In "OMG," center stage is given over to the song's inner workings -- and collaborator will.i.am -- rather than Usher's pleading voice.

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan announced that their daughter had been christened in a private ceremony in California, publicly calling her Princess Lilibet Diana.

Lully shows us what happens when mere mortals get involved with the gods.

The musical and life partners’ playfulness and love for each other is on full display in this performance.

Local police say they've seen no evidence of crimes against pets alleged by Vance and GOP allies. The claims appear to have been spread by a neo-Nazi group before gaining a wider audience online.

The big cat had the husky named Sasha pinned down. William Gibb punched the cougar in the face. The cougar took some swings too, but Gibb won, and the dog got medical attention.

William Gadoury noticed a three-star constellation with only two Mayan cities and theorized there must be another one. Satellite images confirm buried geometric shapes in an area of dense vegetation.

Updated 11:13 a.m.Police are releasing more details about an officer-involved shooting that left a man dead outside a home in northeast Charlotte…

CHAPEL HILL North Carolina will start the season without P.J. Hairston and Leslie McDonald, the school announced on Thursday before coach Roy Williams’…

Filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission show if William Johnson is fired when the new owners take over, he'll walk away with a golden parachute worth $56 million. When you tack on stock payouts and deferred compensation benefits, he could get more than $200 million.

In 2011, the three guards in New York state beat inmate George Williams so badly that he suffered two broken legs, broken ribs, a broken shoulder and a severe fracture of his eye socket.