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For centuries, the memory of Jane Franklin has languished in brother Benjamin's shadow. While Ben is on currency and splashed across textbooks, Jane's life of curiosity and hardship has been forgotten. In Book of Ages, historian Jill Lepore draws a portrait of one of the American Revolution's "little women."

The man known as D.B. Cooper became part of American folklore after parachuting from a plane he hijacked with $200,000 ransom. Cooper's stunt sparked wild speculation about his possible survival or death, and his identity. Now, the FBI says it has a new lead.

A shootout in San Diego’s Skyline neighborhood this week left three people dead, including police officer Christopher Wilson. But one member of the San Diego PD survived being shot. That was Monty, a Belgian Malinois who took a bullet in the muzzle.

The five-term senator, a moderate Republican-turned-Democrat, was a key member of the Judiciary Committee and consistently a thorn for leaders of both political parties and their presidents. Specter died of complications from non-Hodgkins lymphoma at his home in Philadelphia on Sunday. He was 82.

Organizers of the 9/12 Generation Project hope to bring the memory of that day from community to community by sharing an American flag that hung just south of where the World Trade Center once stood. The flag, according to the group, is not just a symbol of the country. It's a symbol of resilience and compassion.

Nicola Griffith's immersive tale of a seventh-century seer is a rare gift in a genre that often lacks women in leading roles. Critic Amal El-Mohtar has fallen in love with the titular character, praising Griffith's "startlingly beautiful" prose and her thoughtful, meticulously-detailed approach to the world of the Middle Ages.

Military Working Dog handler Cpl. Joshua R. Ashley, 23, of Rancho Cucamonga, was killed July 19 in Helmand province, Afghanistan.

Birds, butterflies, beaver and antelope, wildflowers and frogs -could their survival possibly be connected to top predators like the wolf and cougar? Narrated by Peter Coyote, this documentary goes behind the scenes with leading scientists to explore the role top predators play in restoring and maintaining ecosystems and biodiversity. Wolves and cougars, once driven to the edge of existence, are finding their way back -- from the Yellowstone plateau to the canyons of Zion, from the farm country of northern Minnesota to the rugged open range of the West.

In 1961 the American League schedule was lengthened by eight games to 162, and it was about this time that summer that the commissioner -- of whom it was once written, "An empty cab drove up to the curb and Ford Frick got out" -- declared that even if some player broke Babe Ruth's record of 60 home runs, it would not count if he needed more games than Ruth had had.

In 2004, Peter Obetz was in the middle of a divorce when he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer.