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Vote Indicates Public Support for Smoking Ban

Bowling Green City Commissioner Brian “Slim” Nash said he believes voters sent a message in Tuesday’s election: Citizens are satisfied with the city’s…

Veterans at ease in front of Powell Student Center at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond.

At Ease: EKU Leads National Celebration

Eastern Kentucky University was among more than 180 colleges and universities to observe the Remembrance Day National Roll Call. Starting early this…

Jerry Lee Lewis, a pianist Isacoff classifies as a 'combustible,' performs at the Rainbow in London in 1972.

The Subspecies Of Pianists, Or, What Jerry Lee Lewis And Beethoven Share

In a new book, pianist, composer and author Stuart Isacoff proposes an aural taxonomy of pianists.

Karl Marlantes receives the Navy Cross in the winter of 1969-70.

Coming Home To Less Than A Hero's Welcome

It's Veterans Day, and the families of soldiers who have come back from Iraq and Afghanistan can celebrate together. But coming home isn't always easy. Navy veteran and author Karl Marlantes offers this essay on his return from Vietnam — and he explains why coming home today isn't any easier.

In 1932, a group of WWI veterans in Portland, Ore., rallied the Bonus Army to Washington to lobby for early payment of their promised bonuses. They set up camp along the Anacostia River that May. But by July, officials lost patience and went into the camp to evict the marchers. It turned violent. A soldier torched a tent, and the Army began torching everything still standing.

The Bonus Army: How A Protest Led To The GI Bill

When World War I veterans returned from overseas, they were promised a cash bonus for their service — but they wouldn't get their money until 1945. Then the Great Depression struck. Desperate for relief, in 1932 a group of veterans from Portland, Ore., went to Washington to demand early payment. The protests led to violence — and eventually the GI Bill.

Now Children Need Cholesterol Tests, Too

One more needle stick: Children will now need a cholesterol test before they turn 12. Blame rising obesity rates for that. The goal is to find children with high cholesterol and treat them, mostly with diet and exercise, to reduce the risk of heart disease as adults.

And Then There Were Three: Universal Will Buy EMI

The storied label's recorded music and publishing arms will be divided and sold, trimming the number of major record labels to just three: Sony, Universal and Warner.

An Occupy Oakland demonstrator lights a candle after a man was shot and killed near the Occupy Oakland camp.

Occupy Oakland Movement Tries To Regroup After Shooting

After a man was shot and killed near the Occupy Oakland encampment, police and local officials are asking protesters to disband.

Pro-democracy protesters, holding a huge pre-Baath era Syrian flag outside the Arab league headquarters in Cairo on November 2, 2011.

Rights Group Accuses Syria Of Crimes Against Humanity

Activists said 250 people were killed in Syria over the past 11 days. Calls are also increasing for the Arab league to suspend Damascus' membership.

A woman outside the Hudba el-Gassi compound in Tripoli, Libya, holds up a sign asking, "Where's my father?" Once a military police base, Hudba el-Gassi is now a makeshift prison for regime loyalists and others rounded up by armed militiamen.

Families Of Prisoners Pressure Libya's New Leaders

In the post-Gadhafi era, Libyans are gathering outside Tripoli's prisons and demanding the release of their relatives, rounded up without warrants and, in their families' view, without reason other than revenge. Officials say it will take time to sort out the prisoners and build a court system.

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