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A lawsuit accuses Hershey's of using 'deceptive' packaging on Reese's products

Four plaintiffs in Florida say Hershey falsely represented several Reese's Peanut Butter products by showing "explicit carved-out artistic designs" on the wrappers being sold.

Power is restored to nearly all of Puerto Rico after a major blackout

Lights returned to households as well as to Puerto Rico's hospitals, water plants and sewage facilities after the massive outage that exposed the persistent electricity problems plaguing the island.

Two 12-year-olds comfort each other while sharing stories about their families. Some say it's only at camp that they don't feel alone because they meet other children in their situation. Some children have seen their parents overdose and some have had to call 911. Many have been taken away to foster care multiple times.

At This Camp, Children Of Opioid Addicts Learn To Cope And Laugh

Camp Mariposa in Dayton, Ohio, is designed just for them. The program lets these children share their experiences, learn coping strategies and, most importantly, get to be kids.

An enumerator interviews a woman for the 1940 census. Veiled in secrecy for 72 years because of privacy protections, the 1940 U.S. census is the first historical federal decennial survey to be made available on the Internet initially rather than on microfilm.

The 1940 Census: 72-Year-Old Secrets Revealed

On Monday, the National Archives will release a mother lode of previously unavailable data from the 1940 census. The mass of retro information is like a time capsule, dug up from yesterday, that will offer a sharp look at how much — or how little — America has changed in the past 72 years.

The CD, At 30, Is Feeling Its Age

The CD is just the latest musical format to rise and fall in roughly the same 30-year cycle.

New Age Africa

Stephan Micusc is a German musician who collects obscure instruments from around the world, and then learns to play them. He's been making records for twenty years, featuring lush combinations of instruments that, to his knowledge, have never been played in an ensemble before. His latest CD, The Garden of Mirrors, features a harp from Gambia, an Irish tin whistle, a Japanese flute, and steel drums from Trinidad, just to name a few of the instruments. Micus has multi-tracked his own voice to accompany his unique compositions, creating a choir that evokes the black township choirs of South Africa. Charles de Ledesma has a review of the disc. (4:30) The Garden of Mirrors, by Stephan Micus is copyright 2000, ECM Records.

A field of unharvested wheat is seen in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, England, in 2012. Wheat wasn't cultivated in Britain until some 6,000 years ago, but DNA evidence suggests early Britons were eating the grain at least 8,000 years ago.

Stone Age Britons Were Eating Wheat 2,000 Years Before They Farmed It

Scientists have recovered cultivated wheat DNA from an 8,000-year-old submerged site off the British coast. The finding suggests hunter-gatherers were trading for the grain long before they grew it.

Arizona AG gives county OK for full ballot hand counts

Arizona’s Republican attorney general says county officials can hand-count all ballots in at least five races from the Nov. 8 election.

Noncompete clauses could soon be gone under a new federal ban

With the federal ban on noncompetes set to take effect in 120 days, workers bound by such agreements are starting to wonder whether they are free to pursue work that they otherwise couldn't do.

Tim McGraw (left) and Scott Borchetta, CEO of Big Machine Label Group, at a press conference in Nashville last month announcing McGraw's signing to the label.

Clear Channel Will Be The First To Pay Royalties For Music On Its Air

The network will pay for the recordings — not just songs — it airs, and less for those it streams.

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