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When sport and language intersect, they can help define how we speak and think — consider the "level playing field." And in Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III, the sons of juniors, such as Benjamin Franklin Deford III, might have found a game changer.

Food and clothing labeled small appeal to us, even when the labels lie, a marketing professor says.

When Joan Crawford was nominated for Best Actress for the movie Mildred Pierce, she was so nervous that she skipped the Academy Awards ceremony. Tuesday night, her Oscar sold at auction for $426,732.

Los Angeles closes down a 10-mile stretch of Interstate 405 for two days this weekend for demolition work on a bridge. Traffic jams didn't materialize last year during a similar closure. But there's a new concern this year: helicopters swarming overhead to watch the demolition work.

A report by the non-governmental organization Global Witness says more than 60 percent of the West African nation's rainforests have been granted to logging companies in the past six years. The group has found evidence of fraud and misconduct within Liberia's logging sector.

A public hearing over a proposal to restrict how students can be restrained in classrooms across the state has drawn dozens of comments. Advocates for the…

Librarians are facing a need to adapt to the rapidly changing makeup of America. Guest host Celeste Headlee speaks with international librarian consultant Loida Garcia-Febo about what it's going to take to make libraries more accessible to Spanish speakers, and the significance of serving a multicultural landscape.

For every actor who has played James Bond in the past 50 years, there are fans who think he defined the role, and that the others merely toiled in his shadow. Cast your vote on who did the best job as "Bond — James Bond."

Campaigns have many milestones. The debates mark the last. In just a little more than a month, the 2012 presidential campaign will finally be over.

For the second year in a row, fears of massive traffic tie-ups in Los Angeles because of demolition work were unfounded. Drivers stayed away from the area and "carmageddon" became "carma-what?"