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Quincy Jones went from performing and arranging to producing. As a record executive, he churned out chart toppers. Always restless, he moved to producing films and TV shows in the 1960s and '70s. Through the '80s and '90s there were more hits: The Color Purple, Michael Jackson's blockbusters and humanitarian work in Africa. At 75, he's still keeping up a blistering pace.

Joseph Pedott was ahead of the wave on ch-ch-ch-chia seeds, TV advertising, and plants as the new pets.

No hay razón para alarmarse, pero algunas municipalidades están abriendo sitios con sacos de arena solo en caso de que haya inundaciones en zonas bajas. Los sacos de arena sin usar pueden guardarse para futuras tormentas.

In celebration of Mexico's Independence Day, many people will eat the green, white and red dish of stuffed peppers in walnut sauce. Noted chef and cookbook author Pati Jinich is among them.

De acuerdo con la Asociación de Productores de Fresa de Florida, el estado produce cerca del 15% de las fresas del país durante el invierno; sin embargo, parte de esa cuota de mercado podría ser absorbida por las importaciones extranjeras.

Preste atención a las fechas límite y a los requisitos de documentos de identidad para que su voto en Florida cuente.

Three months ago W. Kent Fuchs became president of the University of Florida, leaving New York’s Cornell University.Fuchs says Florida universities are…

Forecasters expect eight to 14 storms this hurricane season, which starts Monday and runs through November. Why are forecasters calling for fewer storms than average and what should you pay attention to?

The loss of jobs has stung as the coal industry has declined. Renewable power — especially solar — is now where the jobs are. Solar jobs outnumber those in coal, but coal jobs pay more.

Dos rampas de la I-275 cerrarán durante los próximos meses en el intercambio de la 54th Avenue N en St. Petersburg, comenzando la noche del 9 de abril.

Tropical Storm Oscar disintegrated Tuesday and its remnants headed toward the Bahamas. It had earlier made landfall in Cuba as a Category 1 hurricane, killing at least six people.

After the I-35W bridge collapsed in Minnesota last year, terms to describe bridge conditions — such as "structurally deficient" and "functionally obsolete" — peppered news stories. But what do those terms mean? Here, an explanation of bridge lingo.

Best American Poetry editor David Lehman has spent decades writing, reading, reviewing and anthologizing massive quantities of American poetry. But his latest project, compiling a retrospective collection of his own work, was new for him. He tells NPR that all his editorial experience wasn't terribly useful when it was time for self-curation.

It's hip to be square this weekend at the annual National School Scrabble Competition in Providence, R.I., where middle schoolers are facing off. The team that makes the highest play using the letter Q wins a signed Shaquille O'Neal basketball jersey.

Last week, NPR asked you to submit your questions on back pain. This week, Dr. James Weinstein answers your questions, tackling subjects from back pain and backpacks to whether it's safe to jog with a "bad back."

Questlove, drummer and co-founder of The Roots, is coming out with a memoir in June called Mo' Meta Blues, co-written with Ben Greenman. The musician spoke with NPR intern Lidia Jean Kott about why the movie Spring Breakers made him feel like less of a rock star, and whether you can ever outgrow being a dweeb.

Familiares de los hombres afirman que son solicitantes de asilo que fueron detenidos y deportados injustamente a la prisión de máxima seguridad de El Salvador conocida como CECOT.

The Grammy Award-winning singer is following in the footsteps of her father, Nat King Cole, by recording her latest album in Spanish.

The network is made up of over 50 local nonprofits.

Jeremy Green Eche of Brooklyn buys and saves websites for hypothetical presidential tickets. On Tuesday, he sold HarrisWalz.com to a person seemingly unconnected to either campaign.

El 30 de enero, Rafael Padrón interpretará un programa compuesto principalmente por música española y latinoamericana como parte de la Serie de Guitarra de Hillsborough College (HC), campus Dale Mabry.

A study released last week shows a steep decline in breast cancer rates and raises fresh questions among women. Doctors on the program talk about what the drop means for women who are currently taking or thinking about taking hormone therapy.

Netflix's animated series about a queer spy-team is full of in-jokes and knowing references (and stereotypes) but it does surprisingly nuanced work developing the group's interpersonal relationships.

Tens of thousands of public sector workers — including rail workers and mail carriers — are striking December, in the largest series of labor actions the U.K. has seen in more than a decade.

The sale, valued at an estimated at $290 million, adds Bravera Health Brooksville, Bravera Health Spring Hill and Bravera Health Seven Rivers into the Tampa General system.