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Homelessness in Manatee and Sarasota counties jumped up nearly 9 percent from a similar count done two years ago.That's the gist of a report released by…

There was no shortage of stories reporting on the arrests of a 12-year-old girl and 14-year-old girl in Polk County in connection with the suicide of…

If you think being wired is just being connected to the world around us through mobile devices, social media and the internet, you are thinking too…

A bill that builds on past reforms to revamp Florida’s troubled child welfare agency is now headed to the Governor.

The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration on Wednesday dismissed a nearly year-old lawsuit aimed at giving state inspectors access to federal...

Members of the House Higher Education Appropriations committee received a breakdown of the budget for the year Thursday. As Blaise Gainey reports, the...

Where Three Roads Meet, the new novel from British psychologist and fiction writer Sally Vickers, is set in the spring of 1923, and features an invented encounter between the ailing Sigmund Freud and a blind, ancient soothsayer.

Actor Don Cheadle, who starred in a movie about the Rwanda genocide of 1994, is urging citizens to speak out to help end suffering in Darfur. He is the co-author of a book that maintains that people can influence their governments to act.

Ten years ago today, news started trickling out of Colorado about a shooting at a high school called Columbine. It didn't take long for the news media to descend, and reporter Dave Cullen was one of the first journalists on the story.

Authorities didn't say which Pokemon card Vinath Oudomsine allegedly bought with the federal funds, but rare Pokemon cards have sold for tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Daily life in 17th century London comes alive again -- online -- through the diary of Samuel Pepys. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Phil Gyford about a project to put a literary and historical classic on the World Wide Web -- one day at a time.

The automakers' ads will suggest people consider carpooling or cycling instead of driving. The new rules, beginning in March, come as the country is trying to cut down on its carbon emissions.

The complexion of the workforce in areas damaged by Hurricane Katrina has changed significantly. At Motivatit Seafoods in Houma, La., a group of Mexican workers has settled in to handle jobs that owner Kevin Voisin says he could not find enough local workers to fill.

Give it up for this as a peak experience: a stolen moment with some ice cream. It might just come down to that, and that's probably an idea worth savoring. The Wood Brothers, anchored by Medeski, Martin & Wood bassist Chris Wood, combine simplicity with metaphysics.

Monhegan Island, off the state's central coast, has only 50 year-round residents. Monhegan Island School has seven students this year, ages five through 12.

Baseball takes another step in its recognition of the Negro Leagues' contributions to the sport when 39 candidates are voted on at the end of this month in a special election for the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

The jurors found Balwani guilty on all 12 counts of defrauding both Theranos investors and the patients.

Hypnotic grooves, funktacular space-jams and a little bit of throat singing. It's another episode of All Songs Considered, chock full of music to make you feel alive.

Browser can go on delighting patrons and terrorizing rodents at the public library. Amid international outrage, lawmakers in White Settlement in North Texas have decided not to fire him after all.

The suit says Gordon, with whom she lived near Atlanta, gave her a "toxic cocktail," and placed her face-down in water. Brown died almost six months after she was found unconscious in a bathtub.

In his new book, Final Countdown Pat Duggins recounts the controversial history of the shuttle program, which has been marred by two fatal disasters and exorbitant costs.

In the month since the Supreme Court voted to strike down Roe v. Wade, 43 clinics across 11 states have halted abortion care, a research group says.

Here's what you need to know if you had not submitted your ballot during the early voting period.

A prominent cryptocurrency trading platform, FTX, has collapsed cutting off investors from their holdings. If you've invested in crypto, NPR wants to hear your story.

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic evaluated about 90,000 messages between doctors and their patients and found differences in patients' responses based on the doctor's gender and area of practice.