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  • A bright young track star searches for her birth mother.
  • What exactly went wrong in Flint—and what does it mean for the rest of the country?
  • Most people know to phone 911 in an emergency, but police departments are often overwhelmed by the sheer volume of calls. Some cities use 311 lines to help divert non-emergency requests, while Miami dispatches a group of unarmed public servants to tackle many non-urgent situations.
  • It was the pair's third and reportedly final time hosting the awards, and no star was safe from Fey and Poehler's biting humor.
  • WMFE in Orlando — now called Central Florida Public Media — slowed its coverage of space after the Shuttle Program ended in 2011, but at the end of 2014 they covered the first, uncrewed flight of NASA’s Orion spacecraft — which is part of the Artemis lunar mission — and WMFE’s Brendan Byrne covered it. That story pretty much launched his career covering space, including hosting a podcast called Are We There Yet? which we now air on Saturday evenings at 7:30 on WGCU-FM. So, we thought it would be a good time to get to know him and the show.
  • Georgia and Missouri have executed inmates — the first since April's botched execution of a prisoner in Oklahoma. Florida is scheduled to execute an inmate later on Wednesday.
  • In this week’s essay from News-Press storyteller Amy Bennett Williams, she takes us back in time more than a hundred years for a glimpse at life in…
  • Tessa LeSage is the Director of Social Innovation and Sustainability at the Southwest Florida Community Foundation - she works to establish partnerships…
  • Ranked-choice voting is an election system in which voters don’t pick one candidate for each race, but rather rank all candidates in order of their…
  • According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as many as five million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease and that number is…
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