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Lexicographers know they're in the hot seat as they confront the changing use of the word "marriage." Linguist Geoff Nunberg says the key to getting the new definition right is to crisply describe everything that's in the category and nothing that isn't.

The box office hit Oz The Great and Powerful, is set 20 years before the The Wizard of Oz. The film's success shows that, no matter how old the story, viewers have an appetite for prequels. TOTN's favorite film buff Murray Horwitz explains what sets these films apart.

What's in a name? More sales, hopes the pork industry. This summer, pork producers are rolling out new names for pork cuts that borrow from the nomenclature for beef. It's part of an effort to add pizzazz to pork and raise awareness of better ways to cook it.

Meteorologist Garett Argianas brings us his evening forecast for Thursday, April 4, 2013.

The measures include a ban on guns in schools and criminal background checks for private gun sales. They follow a shooting at a crowded shopping mall in a Portland suburb just days before the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.

For years, people have been asking Ezekiel “Zeke” Emanuel, the brash, outspoken, and fiercely loyal eldest brother in the Emanuel clan, the same question:…

An article in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine is praising Vermont's efforts to redesign its health care system, saying Vermont can provide…

In Tara Conklin's debut novel, The House Girl: A Novel , two remarkable women, separated by more than a century, live lives that unexpectedly…

Furloughs affecting 500 Vermont National Guard members due to automatic federal spending cuts have been delayed.Major General Steven Cray, the Guard's…

Congressman Bill Owens is hosting a forum on trade and cross border economic strategies between the U.S. and Canada Friday morning at Clarkson…