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By Peter BielloWilmington, NC – As the fire burns in Pender County's Holly Shelter, animals are dying or trying to escape. North Carolina Audubon's Andy…

By Catherine M. WelchWilmington, NC – A growing number of Wilmington residents in the Landfall area are calling Wilmington police about gunfire from duck…

Daily Beast Editor-in-Chief Tina Brown shares the best reads about the evolution of the written word. Three of her recommendations involve the reinvention of publishing, and one will show you how to keep the "wingnuts" from getting you down.

The five-day Hindu festival Diwali, honors the goddess of wealth, Lakshmi. Vasudha Narayanan, director of the Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions at the University of Florida, discusses the rituals and significance of the festival.

The Boston Red Sox have won their second World Series in four seasons, beating the Colorado Rockies 4-3 in Denver. The Red Sox swept the Rockies, becoming the first team to win multiple championships since 2000.

Scallop season has started in the tiny port town of Port en Bessin, Normandy. France is the world's largest consumer of scallops, giving local fishermen a lucrative domestic market. But a dispute over the naming of imported scallops has many fishermen from Normandy crying foul.

Food writer Nigella Lawson doesn't much care for shopping in the summer. "[It] is really so much worse than cooking," she says. Her solution? Feta cheese. The aged, salty, grainy cheese keeps well and goes nicely with a variety of summer vegetables.

One Republican candidate after another has challenged the front-runner status of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Now former House Speaker Newt Gingrich hopes his consistent message will propel him to the front of the pack in this weekend's Des Moines Registerpoll.

Did you know that the human overbite may have evolved after people began using forks and knives? In Consider the Fork, author Bee Wilson traces how kitchen tools--from knives to pots to gas stoves--have changed over time, and how they have influenced what, and how, we eat.

NPR's Jon Hamilton monitors the storm from the National Hurricane Center in Miami.