U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns ruled that the lawsuit against educational publisher Heinemann and three of its top authors was invalidated by a legal doctrine that bars claims of ...

Five years after George Floyd’s killing set off nights of destruction, vacant lots and broken buildings remain along Lake ...

2020 was a bad year for killings in St. Louis. The city nearly broke a 30-year-old record for the number of homicides in a year. It had the highest homicide rate among the nation’s large cities. Yet ...

For years, Utah has been the epicenter of the nation’s so-called troubled-teen industry. Since 2015 some 20,000 kids have been sent to programs in Utah that cater to parents and state agencies ...

The big news is that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Curtis Flowers' appeal. The court is looking narrowly at whether the district attorney, Doug Evans, discriminated against black people in jury ...

Government officials across the Midwest face pressure to address high levels of nitrate pollution in water, which researchers have linked to illnesses including cancer, birth defects and thyroid ...

Jacob Torblaa was a troubled kid. At 15, he showed signs of schizophrenia and stopped communicating with his mother, Lisa. He started pushing and grabbing at her in their Lake Park, Minn., home. She ...

APM Reports correspondent Emily Hanford started wondering about how kids learn to read a few years ago while she was reporting on the large number of college students who aren't academically ready.