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Mitchel Craddock and his buddies found a stray and her litter at a cabin in Tennessee. Craddock's friends each adopted a puppy; his grandma adopted the mom.

KCRW DJ Travis Holcombe is already looking forward to new music that's coming out in 2014. Among some of his soon-to-be-favorites are artists like U2 and Broken Bells.

Hurricane evacuees all across the Gulf Coast are moving out of shelters. But moving makes some evacuees realize the depths of the bond they forged in desperate circumstances. One shelter in Mississippi serves as an example.

The novel Shaman, by science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson is a coming of age novel set in the ice age. Reviewer Alan Cheuse says it is the latest to take up the question of what it was like to live 30,000 years ago on the cusp of change from Neanderthal to Cro-Magnon dominance of the human world.

A consortium of environmental advocacy groups is holding a Florida Fracking Summit Nov. 2 at Florida Gulf Coast University. The free day-long event is…

A day-long odyssey that began at the Capitol Rotunda, then to the Washington National Cathedral, and finally on a presidential jet to Southern California came to and end Friday when the late President Ronald Reagan's casket was interred at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley. Rachael Myrow of member station KPCC reports from along the motorcade route leading from Pt. Mugu Naval Air Station on the coast, where the late president's casket arrived, to the library in the inland valley.

Three decades after U.S. troops helped protect a Soviet defector during a firefight with North Korean troops, one of the soldiers finally received his Silver Star. Mark Deville's comrades were awarded their medals years ago.

The newly elected members of Congress arrived in Washington today to begin orientation for their new jobs.

Last year, The School District of Lee County had 235 teaching vacancies but have since whittled down that number to only 45, meaning there will be a certified schoolteacher in every classroom.

With high inflation and rising expenses, small businesses hope to lure shoppers with food, holidays cheer, instead of deep discounts.