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"I know it is happening in some communities," Gary, Ind., Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson said, adding voice to a controversial phenomenon known as the Ferguson effect.

Many people who become addicted to drugs, tobacco or alcohol start using as teenagers. So more effort is being put into helping teenagers stop before they get in too deep.

Israeli officials are objecting to new European Union guidelines to require that labels of origin on goods sold in Europe from occupied territories be labeled that way — not as made in Israel.

Joining Verne in the studio for part of today's classical music programming was director of the Northwest Sacred Music Chorale, Stan McDaniel. Stan and…

Eight thousand Muslim men and boys were killed by Serbs in Srebrenica, Bosnia, in one of the worst atrocities since the Nazi era. The Serbian premier offered the money during a visit this week.

Rinderpest, or cattle plague, was declared eradicated in 2011. But many research institutes still have samples of the rinderpest virus in storage. Disease experts want those samples destroyed.

Books by three YouTube stars are on The New York Times best-seller list right now. That's not an anomaly — NPR's Lynn Neary reports it's a trend that more and more publishers are starting to embrace.

Vincent Asaro was charged in helping with the Lufthansa heist that was depicted in the Goodfellas movie.

A court ordered the release of women and children held in immigrant detention centers in favor of electronic monitoring. The GEO Group operates both. Advocates say that's a conflict of interest.