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The 52-foot cowboy has been an icon of the State Fair of Texas since 1952. Today, he met his match — a blaze that left nothing but his hands and skeleton.

"The timing is right to move on, and the program is positioned to remain at the pinnacle of women's soccer," said Ellis, who won back-to-back World Cup titles and will depart in October.

The Americans qualified with a CONCACAF tournament win over Mexico. The squad will be making its seventh-straight Olympics appearance — and get a shot at redemption after the 2016 Games.

A five-way kidney swap was a chain of selfless kindness that allowed several people to help their loved ones and others.

The celebrated singer Thomas Hampson found himself in a verbal boxing match, defending opera and classical music from an unusually contentious host on a recent British talk show.

Some companies offer employees one-on-one financial counseling. The service can be revealing.

For many cities and towns across the U.S. that have Old World European names, their pronunciation doesn't quite match with the namesake. Linguist Amelia Tseng helps explain why that might be the case.

Jennifer Robin Arnold worked decades as a costume dresser with The Phantom of the Opera. Her colleagues came to StoryCorps to remember her.

The Prestige matches Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman as rival magicians who try to sabotage each others' tricks, and steal them when they can. It's a magical mystery tour of subterfuge, directed by brothers Christopher and Jonathan Nolan of Memento fame.

Canada defeated Team USA 3-2 on Thursday to win its fifth gold medal in the sport. Either Canada or the U.S. has won every gold medal since women's hockey debuted at the winter Olympics in 1998.