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When he appeared in court on second-degree murder charges in the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman was accompanied by his new defense attorney, Mark O'Mara. After the hearing, O'Mara told NPR that he doubts the case will go to trial in 2012.

How much did people in your income bracket pay in taxes? And what was the government's total tax take, from all sources?

The Obamas' effective tax rate was about 20 percent of their nearly $790,000 income. The Bidens' effective tax rate was about 23 percent of their nearly $380,000 income.

Chief Michael Maloney was due to retire from the Greenland, N.H., police department next Friday. But Thursday night he was killed during a drug bust in which four officers were also wounded.

Sybrina Fulton says her comments early Thursday were misconstrued. She believes it was an accident that George Zimmerman saw her son, but that once he did the neighborhood watch volunteer deliberately tracked Trayvon Martin.

(Tulsa, OK)-Charges have now been filed against the two suspects in the Good Friday shooting spree in North Tulsa. District Attorney Tim Harris’ office…

In a new book, To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure, engineer Henry Petroski chronicles disasters from the sinking of the Titanic to the destruction of space shuttles Challenger and Columbia. Petroski discusses why these accidents are often caused by factors other than a design flaw.

From farting fish, to the laws of stupidity, Marc Abrahams (editor and co-founder of The Annals of Improbable Research) has a knack for finding science that "makes you laugh, and then makes you think." Abrahams discusses some improbable research, and why science that might at first seem absurd, matters.

Airs Saturday at Noon on KWTU Classical 88.7-1The 2011-12 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with a live broadcast of Verdi’s La…

Turkey is closely aligned with the West, but it also depends on Iran to meet the energy demands of its growing economy. The relationship between Turkey and Iran has shown signs of strain over Syria, where Iran strongly supports the government, and Turkey wants regime change.