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Good Day Kids Fest returns to Lowe Mill this Saturday from noon until 4. The 11th annual festival just for kids is brought to you by Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment and Rocket City Mom. This year’s theme is myth and magic.

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This Saturday, the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra wraps up its season with a thrilling program of Robert Schumann and Richard Strauss.

Panoply returns to Big Spring Park this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (April 27 - 29.) The festival offers art, music, dance, and all sorts of fun f

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Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson faces a lawsuit over his agency's sidelining of a rule that's meant to prevent segregation in areas that receive federal housing funds.

The suit, which also names HUD Secretary Ben Carson, was filed Tuesday morning, citing the agency's postponement of a rule that targeted segregation.

Brian Kemp, Georgia's Secretary of State, points a gun at a young man in one of his ads for his campaign for governor. It's spurred national outrage.

One campaign ad in Georgia, in which the candidate for governor points a gun at a young man, has spurred national outrage. Clinging to gun rights has been a strategy in some GOP primary races.

Mehnaz (center) is one of 12 female lawyers in an administrative district with 700,000 people. There are about 500 male lawyers in the district.

A dozen lawyers are helping other women in the Swat Valley with divorce, custody and inheritance cases. Some of the women lawyers defied the Taliban to study law and continue to endure threats.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says he will resign on Tuesday, following accusations that he physically assaulted multiple women. Schneiderman contests the allegations.

But Cyrus Vance Jr.'s probe of Eric Schneiderman is complicated: Schneiderman has been investigating Vance for his involvement in the decision not to prosecute producer Harvey Weinstein.

Elation is an Angus bull that recently sold for $800,000. His co-owner, Brian Bell, sells Elation's semen for $50 a sample, about double the going rate.

Cattle ranchers know that making the best steak starts with the genetic makeup of the herd. Now those genetics have taken a historic leap thanks to new, predictive DNA technology.

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