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See highlights of a Kaiser Family Foundation/NPR survey on the effects of long-term joblessness.

These days the health program for the poor is claiming a bigger slice of states' spending than even K-12 education, says a report from the National Association of State Budget Officers.

At a modern dairy farm, the high-tech advances aren't in machinery. They're inside the cow.

The quake was centered 120 miles east of Acapulco.

Sunday's tragedy took the lives of seven people, all from one family. In 2006, six people were killed near the same spot. Last June, another went airborne there — but both people inside survived. Authorities are investigating.

Update 3:30 AM ET: A new Tornado Watch has been issued for the eastern half of the Florida Panhandle, Florida’s Big Bend region and most of northeast...

As summer vacations draw to a close and school-age children begin the mad scramble to fulfill their summer reading obligations, author Lesley M. M. Blume recommends a few timeless books that may not be on the required book lists.

City of Stuart has released a list of the railroad crossings in Martin County that will be impacted by the ongoing construction work, and the detours around the closures.

Rudolpho Anaya's 1972 novel Bless Me, Ultima is a classic of Chicano literature. The story begins for Antonio, 6, when Ultima comes to live with his New Mexico family in 1944. Ultima is called a witch, but she considers herself a woman with healing knowledge of medicinal herbs and remedies.