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Last year, many businesses in Ferguson, Mo., were looted and vandalized in unrest that gripped the city. Customers are starting to return, but some owners don’t feel positive about staying here.

Leana Wen, Baltimore’s new health commissioner, is trying to apply public health approaches to ameliorate the city’s deep-seated problems with poverty, violence and disease.

Netflix made headlines this week with the announcement. But NPR has found the policy doesn’t extend to people who work at Netflix DVD distribution centers.

Nutritionists say the vast majority of Americans don’t eat the two recommended servings of seafood a week. What to do about it? Educate people on how to fit more fish in to their diet.

After the agency formally proposed the pay ratio reporting rule in 2013, it received more than 280,000 public comments that called on its commissioners to approve the rule.

To sell your artisanal products in Brooklyn these days, you need a good story. Meet the Timmy Brothers, a fictional Brooklyn pair who have “a thirst for helping people become less thirsty.”

A spokesman for the Metro Nashville Police said the suspect was armed with a hatchet, pepper spray and a pellet gun.

The federal lawsuit accuses the Texas state trooper who arrested Bland of depriving her of her constitutional rights. Bland was found hanging in a jail cell three days later.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute is supposed to figure out which medical treatments work best. But there are sharp political and scientific disagreements over how to do that.

A California playground embraces the value of wild play.