Mark Pratt, Associated Press

No one was ever charged in the deaths of seven people in the Chicago area who took the over-the-counter painkillers laced with cyanide, but Lewis served more than 12 years in prison for sending an extortion note to manufacturer Johnson & Johnson.

The aim of the program run by the General Services Administration is to preserve the properties, most of which are more than a century old.

Bailey defended O.J. Simpson, Patricia Hearst and the alleged Boston Strangler, but his legal career was halted when he was disbarred in two states.

“These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises said.

Maritime historians, climate scientists and ordinary citizens are coming together on a project to study the logbooks of 19th-century whaling ships to better understand modern-day climate change and Arctic weather patterns.

Boston set an all-time snowfall record and flirted with another mark: most snark in a single winter. The latest storm in an epic winter edged the total just over the 9-foot mark. Sunday's storm dropped 2.9 inches at Logan International Airport, pushing the seasonal accumulation to 108.6 inches and surpassing the previous record of 107.6 set in 1995-96.