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A public library in Ohio is celebrating the life of one of its most loyal patrons, a retired social worker named Dan Pelzer.

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On a reporting trip, Here & Now's Chris Bentley and Peter O'Dowd traversed the Blues Trail in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

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All of Harvard University's recent legal cases have started on the desk of federal Judge Allison Burroughs of Massachusetts.

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A long-term study of mountain gorillas finds that when female gorillas move into a new group, they pick one that contains buddies they've lived with before.

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