The choices you make as a teenager can shape the rest of your life. If you take high school classes for college credit, you’re more likely to enroll at a university. If you take at least 12 credits of ...

De-escalation training for police can save lives, but more than 20 states in the U.S. don’t require it. More than six years after a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer killed 18-year-old Michael Brown ...

When Kentucky’s Democratic governor, Andy Beshear, eased critical Covid-19 restrictions in December, more than twice as many people were dying of the virus as the public knew, and Beshear focused his ...

Washington state will stop sending children to treatment centers run by Sequel Youth & Family Services following a review of the company that raised concerns about the treatment of kids at two ...

With Curtis Flowers free for Christmas and the state's case against him under siege, the repeated prosecutions of Flowers have never seemed so close to an end. Flowers' odyssey is without precedent.

Curtis Flowers walked out of jail at 4 p.m. Monday, 23 years, six trials, and four death sentences after the day he first walked in. He is finally — at least temporarily — free after posting a bond of ...

John Johnson, a key investigator in the Curtis Flowers case, refused numerous interview requests from "In the Dark." In fact, the only time we ever saw Johnson during a year of reporting in ...

In June 2010, David Balash took the stand in the courthouse in Winona, Mississippi. As a court-appointed forensics expert, Balash had been tasked with reviewing the ballistics evidence in the Curtis ...

Winona has long billed itself as "The Crossroads of North Mississippi." Driving through town, you see the slogan referenced all over. There's the sign on The Winona Times building that says, "Serving ...

Co-reported by Tom Scheck of APM Reports and Scott Tong of Marketplace. WASHINGTON — In a reversal, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of a six-year, $29 million study ...

Jared Scheierl was kidnapped and sexually assaulted near Cold Spring in January 1989, six days before his 13th birthday and nine months before the abduction of Jacob Wetterling in a town 10 miles away ...

Researchers have long been searching for better ways to learn. In recent decades, experts working in cognitive science, psychology, and neuroscience have opened new windows into how the brain works, ...