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The Kentucky Wildcats and the Connecticut Huskies take the court in Monday's NCAA men's college basketball final. NPR's Tom Goldman talks to Melissa Block about what to watch for in the game.

The soundtrack to Disney's Frozen has been the biggest-selling album of 2014, topping the Billboard album chart for 13 weeks.

Nina King, 42, will be the first woman and the first person of color to be the athletics director at Duke. She will succeed Kevin White, and has worked under him since 2008.

N.C. State lives to play another game in this year's NCAA Tournament. The Wolfpack broke open a tight Midwest Region contest Tuesday night against Xavier…

These wildly different artists both reach the top of the pop charts this week.

Was the Chapel Hill Shooting a parking dispute or a hate crime? In this episode of Stories with a Heartbeat we talk about apologies and personal…

A 21-year-old woman from China came out on top in the 10-meter air rifle competition. Qian Yang narrowly beat out a competitor from Russia and beamed as she held up her gold medal.

Rock critic Ken Tucker gives us his top picks in pop for 2004. He runs down his 10 best albums, and then talks about some trends of 2004, such as the return of punk, the year of the hip-hop producer, crunk music, and the potential end of an era as iPods and single song downloads replace album purchases. Ken Tucker is also a film critic for New York magazine.

For five years, Down Beat has named Joey DeFrancesco the industry's top jazz organist. In addition to enjoying a successful solo career, he's also played in bands with Miles Davis, John McLaughlin, and Pat Martino, to name a few. Hear an interview and a solo performance from KPLU.

Primary voters headed to the polls Tuesday to set the field for the Nov. 4 general municipal elections.