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- How to create neighborhoods where children are free to play
Mike Lanza, author of 'Playborhoods,' set out to make his home a neighborhood hangout for kids.
- Carson is latest to try to return professional football to Los Angeles
The Carson City Council voted to approve a $1.7 billion NFL stadium Tuesday evening. However, several other communities, including nearby Inglewood, are vying for the project.
- NFL stadium proposal: Will pro football return to Los Angeles?
A $1.7 billon stadium plan was approved just in time for an NFL owners meeting on Wednesday. How likely is it that pro football will return to Los Angeles, and how much could it cost taxpayers?
- Why LeBron James is quitting social media
The 20.6 million people who follow @KingJames on Twitter are going to have to wait to hear from him until after the postseason.
- Tim Tebow to return to NFL as an Eagle
Tim Tebow is expected to sign a one-year contract with the Eagles on Monday. Tebow has remained one of the most popular NFL players, in part because he has fans who follow him because of his strong Christian beliefs.
- Is America beginning to accept atheists?
Inclusive policies for atheists, along with growing media attention and the rising number of religiously unaffiliated populations in the US, may herald the start of a shift in how America perceives those who don’t believe in God.
- Texas embraces handgun 'open-carry': What took 'em so long?
The state of high plains drifters and urban cowboys has long been skeptical about open-carry of handguns, making the Long Star State more like New York than Arizona when it comes to guns out in the open. That’s now changing.
- Tennessee plan to make Bible 'official' book derailed
The state's attorney general has warned that the bill would violate separation of church and state provisions of both the federal and state constitutions.
- Are race relations in California better than rest of US?
Nearly 75 percent of California voters described race relations in their neighborhood as good or excellent, according to a new survey.
- 'Fight for $15' protests: why they’re about more than fast-food wages
Protests on Wednesday aimed at raising pay for low-wage workers reached 230 cities. Employees are stepping out to highlight issues that affect not only them, but also a wide swath of Americans.
- Is 'pretending' to be Muslim an appropriate history assignment?
A Wisconsin high school teacher faces criticism for assigning a paper to her sophomore world history class in which the students were instructed to write from a Muslim perspective.
- NBA MVP: The trouble with selecting just one player
LeBron James and Chris Paul are having tremendous seasons. But due to an influx of rising stars, they will likely not finish among the top four in Most Valuable Player award voting this year.
- Maryland detains 'free-range' kids: how walk to playground became so fraught
Two Maryland parents' decision to allow their 10- and 6-year-old children to walk to the park without an adult has reignited a national debate over how much supervision children must – or should – have.
- Teen drinking linked to alcohol in movies: studies spark calls for change
A growing number of studies suggests that the portrayal of alcohol use in films is connected to teen drinking. Some public health officials say the images need to be curtailed – as images of tobacco use were in the 1990s.
- Youth is served, again: Spieth cruises to first Masters title
Eighteen years after Tiger Woods, then 21, won his first green jacket, 21-year-old Jordan Spieth of Texas went wire-to-wire in winning golf's first major tournament of 2015.
- Masters 2015 TV schedule: Who to watch in the final round
Jordan Spieth maintains his lead after Saturday's third round. Who might catch him on the tournament's last day?
- Masters 2015 TV schedule: Who to watch in the third round
Jordan Spieth set a new two-round record this week at Augusta National Golf Club. Who might shoot a low score on Saturday?
- Jordan Spieth sets new Masters 36-hole scoring record
39 years after former Masters champion Raymond Floyd established the old mark, a Texas millennial bettered it by one shot Friday.
- Masters 2015 TV schedule: Who to watch in the second round
Jordan Spieth, Phil Mickelson, Justin Rose, and Ernie Els are just some of the big names to keep an eye on during Friday's second round of the Masters.
- Why the Padres have signed a former pitcher annually since the 90s
Matt LaChappa was an up-and-coming pitcher with the San Diego Padres after being drafted in 1993. In one instant his career was taken from him – what has the baseball team done in that time to make his life easier?