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The for-profit company gives a free pair of shoes to a poor child for every pair a consumer buys. Is that a good idea?

The top contenders for the Nobel Prize in economics are said to be a pair of NYU professors who study entrepreneurship, and a Stanford researcher who did pioneering work into economic sociology.

One of the most important events in the national gun violence debate takes place Tuesday far from Newtown, Conn., and Washington, D.C. And if the candidate backed by Michael Bloomberg wins, look for congressional candidates nationwide to start eyeing the New York City mayor and his superPAC

By 1804, Beethoven’s formidable output of piano music had slowed considerably. His one sonata of that year was the very short No. 22.He had other things up his sleeve, and one of those was the watershed Eroica Symphony. we’ll hear it this Sunday night — and we’ll hear that short sonata as well, as we work our way through the entire cycle of the Beethoven sonatas.

Baseball legend Lavonne "Pepper" Paire Davis was the inspiration for Geena Davis' character in A League of Their Own. In the 1940s, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League put young women on the field at a time when they just didn't play ball. Paire Davis died earlier this year at age 88.

The husband-and-wife duo's new album is an impressive feat of song craft from one of roots music's most exciting, unpredictable acts.

On Thursday, Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer will become the first all-women broadcast team to call an NFL game. To critics of the pair, she says it's "myopic" to think that football is only for men.

It's the end of an era, as Johnson Publishing Co. announced plans to cease printing Jet. The magazine, which started some 63 years ago, was long a staple for many African-Americans.

No children were on the yellow school bus at the time of the accident, police say. The school bus was traveling to pick up a student when the series of crashes occurred. The driver is among the dead.

At least one person was seen falling from the building, as a large crowd on the street watched people try to climb down using ropes or cables.