By Jerry W. Jackson MCT With organic food sales booming, the University of Florida will offer an undergraduate degree in organic agriculture beginning this fall. UF said Wednesday it will be one of only...

By Scott Canon MCT COLUMBIA, Mo. - It's the place where cloak-and-dagger eavesdroppers take a sympathetic seat next to your hard-of-hearing grandmother. The cocktail party. It's tough for a spy to listen...

By Tom Hundley MCT LONDON - Fighting to prolong his political life and preserve his legacy in the face of an escalating Labor Party revolt, Prime Minister Tony Blair announced yesterday that he would resign...

By Melissa M. Scallan MCT GULFPORT,Miss.- Universities and community colleges in South Mississippi took a huge hit from Hurricane Katrina, suffering damages in excess of $300 million. A year after the...

By Sean D. Hamill MCT SHANKSVILLE, Pa. - Bill Ziegler heard the roar of United Flight 93 as it soared too close to his home in Stonycreek Township on Sept. 11, 2001, heard the explosion moments later,...

CHICAGO - The first time the fire alarm went off in his University of Chicago dorm, Jonathan Ko, a quadriplegic, was in bed, without a plan of escape. Had it been a real fire, there would have been no...

MADISON, Wis. - Room 526 of the Social Science building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was buzzing with excitement Tuesday afternoon. It was minutes before 4 p.m., the time Kevin Barrett was scheduled...

By Patrice M. Jones MCT CHICAGO-Alex Zatvornitsky has spent uncountable hours researching Loyola University Chicago, the school where he started classes as a freshman last month. He also has worked out...

By Natalie Singer MCT Jerry Taylor was all nerves before he started his summer internship at the Seattle law firm of Garvey Schubert Barer. He worried about the workload, whether he would impress his superiors,...

College professors understand that 8 a.m. classes are not the most popular among students, but lately instructors are wondering if any time would be popular. At UC Berkeley and elsewhere, faculty members...

By Joshua Benton MCT It's the sort of case you might expect Encyclopedia Brown to tackle. Two kids seem to have cheated on Professor Harpp's final exam. Can he prove the culprits did it - before it's too...

By Toni Callas MCT PHILADELPHIA - Jeff and Heidi Sims thought their oldest son, Andrew, would become a computer tech. After all, he's taken apart the family computer more times than they can count. Then...