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The Eugene 4J School Board has two vacancies to fill. The details of the process are on the agenda for Wednesday’s meeting.

In their day, acts like Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy would keep audiences young and old as transfixed as the biggest stars on television today. It's hard to imagine that ventriloquists and their wooden sidekicks would be such big hits -- on radio. NPR's Bob Edwards talks to the author of a new book about the bygone era of ventriloquism.

Police in Muskogee, Oklahoma, confirmed Tuesday they are investigating the shooting deaths of three relatives of seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson.

Police have charged a 19-year-old man with killing two and wounding four others in the city of Bay St. Louis, about 15 miles west of Gulfport.

State officials have been scrambling to reopen the span of the interstate that collapsed last weekend. On a typical day, that span would have seen about 160,000 vehicles pass through.

The Coast Guard said it initially received a call from the Royal Caribbean ship Quantum of the Seas that an Australian man went overboard late Tuesday night.

The bus was traveling west on Interstate 70 when it crashed into commercial vehicles parked on an exit ramp, the Illinois State Police said.

"The Dive" typifies the way Fool's Gold retrofits African guitar-based dance music as viable indie rock.

From American modernism to Mendelssohn and the massive sound of Mahler, a wide-ranging top 10 list.

If Californians don't mind their energy use over the next several days, officials warn, they could force power outages during a punishing heat wave that's hitting Western states.