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Someone has been using Lego blocks to repair the corner of a crumbling brick building in Boston. Reporter Tovia Smith set out to investigate who this person is and what else he has been up to.

For The Art of the Story, a report on tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana, whose album-release celebration doubles as a Village Vanguard debut.

The incident, in which someone saw a man in a wetsuit get dragged underwater, is the city's first fatal shark attack since 1963. Beaches are closed while lifeguards patrol for further shark sightings.

Scientists drilling beneath the Gulf of Mexico have hit the layer deposited when an asteroid the size of Staten Island, N.Y., hit Earth. Samples might contain details from that fateful day.

The palm-sized spider, which has been largely confined to the Southeastern states for nearly a decade, could soon colonize regions with colder climates to the north. But they're harmless to humans.

Judge's order stops short of preventing the state from looking into other reports about children receiving similar care.

On what is supposed to be Christianity's most joyful day, Pope Francis made an anguished Easter Sunday plea for peace in the "senseless" war in Ukraine and in other armed conflicts in the world.

Greg Reyes, the former CEO of Brocade Communications, has been charged, along with two others, in a stock-options backdating scheme. The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the charges Thursday. They are the first in a stock-options scandal that is said to involve dozens of U.S. companies.

Kenneth Lay, founder and vilified former chairman of scandal-ridden Enron Corp., died of a heart attack Wednesday morning. He was 64.

Iraq's national security adviser has released a list of the country's most-wanted criminals. It includes Saddam Hussein's first wife and eldest daughter. The list was issued one day after the bloodiest bombing in Iraq in months killed more than 60 people.