The Trump administration is giving Iowa more power to decide how it spends its federal education money. Washington is signing ...

Education Secretary Linda McMahon approved Iowa's plan Wednesday. Indiana and Kansas have also applied to be exempted from ...

Michigan bluegrass phenom Billy Strings and his band stopped by NPR’s Tiny Desk for a performance more than a decade in the making. Backed by his band — Alex Hargreaves on fiddle, backing vocalist ...

Billy Strings is opening up about the unexpected death of his mother, Debra Apostal, which happened in June. Strings — whose legal name is William Lee Apostal — says his mom wasn't sick leading up to ...

Billy Strings revealed that he wants to set his late mother’s poetry to music for a potential new album during an extensive interview about drug use and addiction on the Dopey podcast. Strings’ mother ...

A warning for some shoreline towns and some in the lower Connecticut River Valley. A string of car thefts is being investigated by Old Saybrook Police, and now they are offering warnings. Stream ...

The city of Buellton has awarded a grant to local nonprofit Santa Barbara Strings to produce the Buellton Strings Project, a 16-week introductory strings course for Buellton youth ages 5-14. Buellton ...

A local string quartet is performing outside the Broadview ICE processing facility to further its mission to share the stories of people whose backgrounds have been suppressed. Crossing Borders Music ...

CHARLOTTE — Detectives with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department are investigating a string of break-ins at the Arboretum Shopping Center. Around 1:30 a.m. Monday morning, officers received ...

From his heart to his hands, Gabriel Tenorio is always making music. “I can’t stop hearing it,” he said. “I can’t stop hearing my memories.” Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, wherever you are.

A 17-year-old was identified as the suspect in a string of crimes in Simi Valley, police say. Simi Valley Police Department officers responded to a vandalism radio call on Fallon Circle around 10:25 p ...

Abandoned animals continue to be a problem plaguing Connecticut. In just the last few days, there have been another six cases in multiple towns. “My heart just breaks. It is just not right they do ...