A charter school in St. Paul plans to close next month because of financial problems.

Patients may be poorly served by pharmaceutical Web marketing strategies offering coupons and vouchers for prescription medications, according to a study published this week in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Professor Dennis Donovan will discuss behavioral characteristics and correlations between drinking and aggressive driving Wednesday, Dec. 2, as part of the UW Medicine & The Seattle Public Library's Medical Lecture Series.

EAST LANSING - Amid a table full of eel, rabbit stew, lobster, quail eggs, popcorn and mussels, a plate of turkey was the only evidence of a modern day Thanksgiving feast.

DELTA TWP. - The Waverly Community Schools Board of Education on Wednesday decided to use $1.1 million from the district's savings to prevent midyear layoffs.

Six international studies published this week in the British journel The Lancet show that cutting greenhouse gases, in particular ozone and black carbon, can save millions of lives worldwide in addition to slowing climate change.

African American scholar-activists on Thursday conducted an evaluation of the nation's current "weird, surreal" condition, as journalist Brenda Payton put it -- "led by a black president who we aren't supposed to think of as black."

Climate change could increase the likelihood of civil war in sub-Saharan Africa by over 50 percent within the next two decades, according to a new study led by a team of researchers at UC Berkeley.

Between 1990 and 2000, Paraguay lost about 13 percent of its forests, including nearly 40 percent of the already heavily exploited Atlantic Forest. This map shows the extent of remaining forests and forest loss during the decade.

Bezymianny Volcano exhibited a modest plume and dramatic shadow in late November, 2009.

over the western Pacific Ocean, roughly 8 degrees north of the Equator. An apparent tower of clouds rises at the storm's center.