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A three-story unused business college dormitory in Des Moines that can sleep 100 has been put to use as housing for dozens of campaign workers from across the country. A second dorm is being readied.

Gov. Rick Snyder delivered his State of the State address, and apologized for the drinking water disaster in Flint. He said he will release his emails on the lead-contaminated tap water in Flint.

No deaths were caused by the New Year's Eve fire. The short-circuit occurred in a bright light that's used to illuminate the hotel's exterior, police say.

A new study finds black students are half as likely as white students to be assigned to a gifted program. Unless their teacher looks like them.

At Glastonbury High School, boys used to wear blue gowns; girls wore pink. The school's Gay Straight Alliance Club requested the change. Now everybody will wear a blue gown with a white sash.

To start, we can't ever be sure that what we find is the oldest life on Earth. All we can do is to keep looking for possible biomarkers in the oldest rocks around, says astrophysicist Marcelo Gleiser.

Our first new mix of 2016 includes a David Bowie cover from Glen Hansard, premieres from Ray LaMontagne, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down and Laura Gibson and more.

The deal OK'd by a key Senate panel preserves stricter school nutrition standards enacted since 2010, but it gives schools more leeway in implementing them. It also calls for encouraging salad bars.

Criminal background checks and assurances that a person "is competent to be a journalist" are among the requirements put forth by State Rep. Mike Pitts in South Carolina's Legislature.

Staff members often refuse to admit a resident has died, even when their friends ask where they've gone, reports Bob Tedeschi of STAT.