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The housing crisis has prompted many schools to get creative. For example: turning single-occupancy rooms into doubles and doubles into triples, or study rooms into bedrooms.

Many federal judges receive free rooms and subsidized travel to luxury resorts for legal conferences. NPR found that dozens of judges did not fully disclose the perks they got.

In August 1973, an 18-year-old DJ Kool Herc played his sister's back-to-school fundraiser in the rec room of their apartment building. But he and his friends sparked something much bigger.

Wednesday evening, many PBS stations across the country will broadcast the first part of a new documentary that explores the impact of childhood cancer on five Ohio families. A Lion in the House takes an unflinching look at a subject that many viewers may find uncomfortable.

David Garfield joined John Bommarito on The Song Break.

Writer and podcaster Kara Swisher wrote her memoir, Burn Book, about her disillusionment with many tech moguls. It recounts more than three decades covering the tech industry.

Tony Hawk has turned what many consider a childhood activity into a professional career. For Hawk, skateboarding is not only a job, it's a means of expression and a foundation for personal belief.

Marquee Arts organist Andrew Rogers, who has played live accompaniment to many films at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor since 2008, has passed away. WEMU’s Ana Longoria reports.

Like so many others, Greg Smith was displaced by Hurricane Katrina. His family lost everything, including Smith's state-of-the-art wheelchair.

Women in Iraq's capital say crime, economic uncertainty and religious conservatism are curtailing their freedoms. As a result, many young women say they feel trapped in their homes. Some feel they had more freedoms under Saddam Hussein than they do now.