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Prescribing medical abortions across state lines is now risky for doctors. "We're talking about something that's a protected right in one state and a felony in a sister state," says one legal scholar.

Kids who start school behind in math tend to stay behind. But could early predictors in preschool help educators put them on a path to success?

After only one year, Florida has temporarily suspended a highly controversial, statewide survey required under a new state law compelling public colleges and universities annually to ask students and faculty to identify political bias in college classrooms.

In 2003, U.S. forces discovered a trove of Jewish documents in a flooded Baghdad basement. They tell the tale of a once-thriving Jewish community. The painstakingly restored documents will be exhibited in the U.S. before they are returned to Iraq. But some Jewish groups are trying to prevent that.

Economists are working on ways to put a price on the environmental damage of growing food. Take sugar: Half of what we eat comes from beets, half from cane. Each has an impact, in very different ways.

Experts say the long-term impacts to the environment — particularly on birds and marine life — could be significant. Officials haven't said what caused the oil to leak from an offshore pipeline.

Lee County hosted a public meeting Jan. 31 to get input on a facility that will provide the county with six million gallons of water per day, with the capacity to increase to more than 10 million gallons a day. The Southeast Advanced Water Reclamation Facility (SEAWRF) Project is in the planning phase and is proposed to be constructed at 14201 Alico Road.

Kids read emotions better after spending several days without electronic media, according to new research.

Something that many people look at as "just" a hobby actually fulfills an important emergency niche during times when regular communications fail or aren't sufficient.Amateur radio operators — "Hams" in the vernacular — are often called upon to use their equipment during difficult times.Showing those skills recently were members of the Fort Myers Amateur Radio Club Inc. who participated in a national amateur radio Field Day exercise.

Environment and public health advocates are sounding an alarm, saying that the construction of "radioactive roads" has been federally approved, and Floridians could be among the drivers using them the most.