A welfare check ended up a crime scene in Columbiana County late Monday afternoon when a teenage boy found his mother and stepfather’s bodies in the basement of their home.

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Researchers use mini plasma explosions to encode the equivalent of two million books into a coaster-sized device. The method could preserve research data for millennia with minimal storage costs. In ...