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High school English teacher Jennifer McQuillan spent the summer collecting clippings from the gardens of American authors. She's using them to plant a "literary garden" in her school's courtyard.

Brazilians bedeviled by mosquitoes bat away the nuisances with an electrified tennis racket. (This piece initially aired on June 14, 2015 on Weekend Edition Sunday).

You can spend millions on lobbyists or ads to influence the presidential election, but it is mostly illegal to bet on who will win the White House. But centuries ago, people bet on the papal election.

Big Ben is the name for the giant bell inside Elizabeth Tower. The chimes are slow by as many as six seconds. Mechanics are placing or removing pennies from the pendulum to alter its speed.

Vester Lee Flanagan allegedly shot Alison Parker, 24, and photojournalist Adam Ward, 27, at a shopping plaza Wednesday morning. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police say.

Bland's mother and other supporters were present for Tuesday night's council vote. The roadway named in her honor leads to the college where she was about to begin a new job.

Many vintners in southern France used to make a few bottles of rosé only for themselves. Now demand for the pale, dry wine has skyrocketed, transforming the lives of the region's winemakers.

The German chancellor's last name is used locally as a word of action that ironically means to not act at all.

Microsoft Vice President Yusuf Mehdi announced Tuesday that the new operating system is running in 192 countries and on a wide range of devices, including ones made as early as 2007.

Composer Tom Cooper and actresses Anika Bryceson and Stacia Bruner visited the station today to talk with Verne about the upcoming performance of their…