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A program called Musicians on Call strives to bring music to the bedsides of patients too sick to leave their hospital beds.

The majority of gun owners are male but NBC's Kristen Dahlgren introduces us to a number of women who own and enjoy firearms as well, in NBC News' continuing series, Flashpoint: Guns in America.

In 1982, Kennesaw, Georgia passed a law requiring each head of household to keep and maintain a firearm. The law has never been enforced but opponents of increased gun control see the town's low crime rate as a positive result of the law. MSNBC's Craig Melvin reports.

A Texas woman was the first passenger to file suit, hours after the Carnival Triumph cruise that left about 3,200 passengers adrift was towed into Mobile, Alabama. Cassie Terry sought unspecified damages against Carnival Corp.

SEATTLE -- Pet owners in the Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle are outraged after someone purposely dumped cayenne pepper all over an area.  They claim it burnt a dog's paws and could make others sick.

This year's winner of the Electrical Workers' (IBEW's) annual photo contest, Bill DeClement, from Folsom, N.J., Local 351, took home first place for his photo of two IBEW members riding in a "window rig at about 7 a.m. one morning in Atlantic City when a blanket of fog rolled in, swaddling the ocean and city below." The photo was taken from the highest Atlantic City building, the Revel Casino. 

A Florida prisoner who escaped in Texas after stabbing a detective with his eyeglasses was shot and killed by law enforcement officers early Saturday after police responded to a report of a home burglary near Dallas, authorities said.

To the outsider, it looks like a poor piece of land to fight over: A sand and scrub hillside where, on a winter’s day, a chill wind whips over the boulders and blows through to the bone.

The discovery of horse DNA in food products sold throughout Europe has set off a scandal, but believe it or not, it’s actually legal to slaughter horses for human consumption in the U.S.

A Berks County, Penn., man was arrested Friday after authorities say he repeatedly raped a mentally disabled woman over the span of two years.