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A bid by Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton to purchase the 1875 Thomas Eakins painting "The Gross Clinic" is causing an outcry in Philadelphia, where many consider it part of the city's cultural landscape. Walton, ranked by Forbes as the world's ninth-richest person, is building a museum of American art in Bentonville, Ark.

The 21-year-old white man who is suspected of gunning down 22 people at a busy Walmart in August has pleaded not guilty. He had previously confessed to the killings, according to police documents.

Someone — anonymously — went into two Wal-Mart and paid more than $100,000 — moving everything off layaway. Meaning, gifts some customers were trying to buy, are now theirs.

Across the country, communities are turning abandoned big-box stores like Kmart and Wal-Mart into churches, schools and libraries. Julia Christensen, an artist and professor, visited many of these sprawling structures to see how they are being repurposed.

Corporate Executives on Wednesday told thousands of employees that stores will be warmer. Also, a human DJ will now pick the music that is heard throughout the store.

Focus groups with swing, female voters in Ohio and Arizona reveal that negative attitudes saturate a critical bloc of voters this year.

A host of beloved authors have new books hitting shelves this week, including a memoir by humorist Barry, a Mark Twain bio by Chernow and essays by Richard Russo.

Toni Morrison's 1987 work Beloved is the best American novel of the past quarter-century. That's according to a vote of writers and critics who were invited to weigh in with their choices by The New York Times Book Review.

A toponym is a word derived from a geographical place name, like "champagne" or "sandwich" — play along as we ask them to identify other (lesser-known) toponyms.

For some insight into the fighter pilot culture, Linda talks with Captain Rosemary Mariner, a retired Navy Captain Aviator. She was trained to fly planes like the fighter that collided with the US reconnaissance plane. Mariner is now a Research Fellow for the University of Tennessee, Center for the Study for War and Society.