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Mayfield shares her powerful story of surviving domestic violence in a very loud and distorted way on her latest album Sorry Is Gone.

At midnight, as the ball drops in New York City, Ripley's is dropping... a giant, 225 pound hairball.

The Republican presidential candidate and his campaign team were traveling to an event in Chattanooga, Tenn., when traffic backed up, causing a four-car crash.

A new survey from the Pew Research Center finds wide gaps in how different generations view politics. Older voters are more conservative and less hopeful about the future of the country. Younger voters lean left and believe the nation's best days are yet to come. But they are less engaged.

Amy Walters is a producer for NPR based at NPR West in Los Angeles.

St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is considered one of baseball's top strategists — and a likely resident of baseball's Hall of Fame. Pulitzer-winning author Buzz Bissinger's new book is about three games La Russa managed in a tense pennant race.

Say you're headed to an outdoor cookout or barbecue or a family reunion but you don't want to show up empty-handed. What do you bring? Chefs Edward Lee, Amy Thielen and James Rigato offer suggestions.

Shopkeepers say Saturday was the first day people resumed Christmas shopping in Newtown, Conn., since the school shootings. Some locals say the community feels closer since the tragedy, and the post office is being inundated with thousands of holiday greetings, gifts and messages of support from around the world.

The Kentucky Department of Education’s new restraint and seclusion policy proposal is in the final stages of approval this week and will go before the state’s Administrative Regulatory Review Committee Monday. Kentucky is one of several states that don’t have a law regulating restraint and seclusion for misbehaving students. Instead, the Kentucky Board of Education sets the governing policies, but the department has acknowledged changes to the regulations are needed. Along with recommendations from a task force, the Kentucky Department of Education added some provisions on restraint and seclusion laid out by the U.S. Department of Education earlier this year. But during the public comment period several superintendents testified against parts of the proposal, saying the new policy is too vague and doesn’t do enough to protect teachers. Some said the new regulation wouldn’t provide clear guidance for teachers who often have to make quick behavioral intervention decisions. After the public comment period, the regulation’s language softened, said Lucy Heskins, staff attorney supervisor for Kentucky Protection and Advocacy, which has been aggressively advocating for changes to the policy. Heskins said the changes now before the review committee aren’t perfect, but if approved they would be a step in the right direction. “I think there are some provisions that we find particularly important,” she said. Among the most important changes, Heskins said, are disallowing supine and prone restraints, increased staff training and more parent communication. But the recent version did soften language directed at using restraint and seclusion against serious threats. “We certainly wish it was a little stronger, but given the seriousness of the incidents we have seen and the complete lack of any kind of oversight or regulation we are thrilled to have something on the books,” she said. Monday’s hearing could see more superintendent testimony, said Marsha Hockensmith, director of KPA. If approved by the review committee, the policy would head to a legislative education committee for final approval.

A court has ruled that a social welfare organization that ran a hospital where the mix-up occurred must pay the man about $317,000 for causing him "mental distress by depriving him of an opportunity to gain a higher education." The 60-year-old man is a truck driver. The boy raised in his place by the rich family became the president of a real estate company.