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The North Carolina home of singer, pianist and civil rights activist Nina Simone has sold. Now the new owners are trying to figure out how to honor her past.

After last month's hurricane, a Florida animal preserve that is home to more than 100 domestic and exotic animals is working on repairs. The owners are still "bouncing back."

What are people in Iran saying about today's attacks by the U.S. and Israel? We hear from people on the ground who experienced the event as it unfolded.

In some states, more and more home child care workers and nursery schools are shutting down because of rising costs and sticky red tape.

"It's a ghost town, essentially," Jewell says of her hometown. "I mean, that's how it's listed on the map. It's about as Western as it gets."

Police in Milwaukee have recovered a Stradivarius violin and arrested three suspects in its theft. The instrument, said to be worth approximately $5 million, was stolen in a brazen armed robbery from the concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra late last month. Mitch Teich of WUWM in Milwaukee reports on the violin's recovery.

Sales of new U.S. homes fell 5.5 percent in September, marking a new two-year low and the fourth consecutive monthly drop. The changes suggest that the housing market is weakening.

More inventory hitting the market was expected to drive sales. Instead, existing home sales suggest a continued slump in the housing market, with mortgage rates hurting affordability.

How do you go back to a place where there is no community and it's just your home left standing after a wildfire? This is question facing some people in California who ponder their next move.

Diane Johnson has spent much of her adult life living in France, writing novels like Le Divorce. But it was not until a visit home, to the Midwestern town of Moline, IL, that the Johnson discovered that her pioneer ancestors had lives worthy of writing about. Her new book, Flyover Lives reconstructs their stories.