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Planetary scientists want Pluto classified as a planet again, and a petition to reconsider planet hood is gaining momentum.

Cartoonist Ed Piskor has just put out the new book in his award-winning Hip Hop Family Tree series. It's an exhaustive, good-natured look at the birth of hip-hop that avoids the pitfall of voyeurism.

He was with the Boston Symphony for 50 years, and his name was also stamped on the sticks of drummers from Buddy Rich to Charlie Watts to Questlove. Firth died Sunday at age 85.

In his new book, The Man Who Wasn't There, Anil Ananthaswamy examines the ways people think of themselves — and how those perceptions can be distorted by certain brain conditions.

At the height of segregation, Eatonville — home of Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston — was a place of refuge for blacks across Florida. Now the town is struggling for its survival.

Last week hundreds of volunteers combed central Florida looking for homeless veterans like Robert Stoner. He’s exactly the kind of person hundreds of volunteers were searching for as part of a tri-county push to get homeless veterans off the streets and into housing.

Are you in the market for a new kitty? Orange County Animal Services is offering $5 cat and kitten adoptions through Thursday.

In the recent release of the annual "Kids Count" report, Florida ranked 37th out of 50 states in overall child well-being, and even lower for its child poverty rate. But 90.7's economic analyst Hank Fishkind says the numbers are not exactly as they appear.

Leprosy cases are on the rise in Florida. Florida has had nine confirmed cases so far in 2015.The state typically sees two to twelve cases per year.…

Federal regulators said the company failed to complete numerous safety recalls on more than 11 million vehicles. Fiat Chrysler released a brief statement on Sunday accepting the consequences.