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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded two grants totaling more than $5.7 million to support the organization's Poet Laureates as well as a national alliance of organizations promoting poetry.

NPR Music's Tiny Desk Contest is back.

Farmers have blocked highways for days across the country to denounce low wages, heavy regulation and unfair competition from abroad. The unions said the new measures represented "tangible progress."

Many airports send their discarded french fries, burgers and Cinnabons to the landfill. But Charlotte Douglas International plans to transform that garbage into fertilizer for flower beds. All it needed was a couple of million red wiggler worms.

Oprah Winfrey says her Book Club grew out of a desire to talk to authors after finishing their books. While the original version of the club ended when Winfrey's television show went off the air in 2011, it has now been rebooted online and on the new Oprah Winfrey Network as Book Club 2.0.

The settlement, which will end a wrongful incarceration lawsuit filed by attorneys for Ronnie Wallace Long, also included a public apology from the city of Concord for its role in his imprisonment.

Newtown, Conn., is still reeling from the shock of last week's shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Sadness is everywhere as the first of many funerals were held Monday. The police investigation continues but most of the big questions about the attack remain unanswered at this time.

Bayer is adding two of its name-brand drugs to the roster of Cost Plus Drugs: the birth control pill Yaz and the menopause treatment Climara.

Indiana is expanding its revenge pornography law to include digitally-generated or altered images.

Apfel's late-in-life emergence as a stylemaker was celebrated in magazines and museums. Her company made reproduction fabrics for the White House for decades. She became a fashion model at 97.