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The game Charles Darrow sold in the 1930s bore a striking resemblance to a game Lizzie Magie patented in 1904. In The Monopolists, Mary Pilon tells Monopoly's origin story.

It’s been years since Florida paid a settlement over the $200,000 dollar cap: a look at one family’s story going through the process.

School district officials and students will testify today in a federal lawsuit over the Lake County School Board’s decision to deny a club for gay and straight students at Carver Middle School in Leesburg. The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida calls the move a violation of students’ rights.But as 90.7’s Renata Sago reports, school board officials call it a policy that focuses on academics.

Orlando may join almost two dozen airports that have stopped using TSA screeners. Most of the others are smaller operations -- but Orlando would be one of the largest. 90.7's Renata Sago reports, airport executives say the screening would be better, faster, and cheaper.

Among the biggest decisions lawmakers face as the legislative session starts Tuesday is how to implement the nation's largest state-based conservation effort.Amendment 1 initiates a 20-year, $22 billion dollar effort to preserve land and water. Voters overwhelmingly supported the state constitutional amendment in November.But not everyone agrees on how the money should be spent.

Scientists at the Kennedy Space Center have started testing a critical part of NASA’s new spacecraft, Orion. The heat shield from the Orion was just removed last week.

In an exclusive interview, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf remembers how Liberia was "the poster child of everything that could go wrong." But people lived up to the local proverb: "Go fix it."

One of rock music's most loved, feared and prolific scribes, the 72-year-old Christgau says he knew early on that he liked criticism better than journalism: "I didn't want to get into people's faces."

In his novel She Will Build Him a City, Raj Kamal Jha weaves the reality he sees as a journalist in New Delhi — where many gravitate looking for a better future — into a fictional, magical world.

Margaret Drabble's The Millstone, set in the 1960s, tells the story of a young, unmarried woman who finds herself pregnant. Author Tessa Hadley says this 50-year-old novel is a weekend must-read.