Idaho has one of the lowest rates of college participation in the country. A 2006 study found that just 26 percent of Idaho's 18- to 24-year-olds participated in college, compared with 42 percent in high-performing states like Michigan and Connecticut.

An untreatable tree ailment that’s more virulent than Dutch elm disease has arrived in the region, threatening to undermine what’s left of the American elm tree population, borough and Penn State officials confirmed.

The sound that comes from under a tent at Camp Phoenix in Afghanistan on Saturday nights is not Afghan music, or the Afghan language. It is South Carolina voices singing South Carolina music.

When N.C. Baptists meet this week for their annual session, they will likely kick out a Charlotte church that has said it welcomes homosexuals as they are -- a violation of controversial rules passed at last year's state convention.

In the age of computers that can check spelling and grammar, plenty of teachers are working to ensure their charges can write clearly, punctuate properly and spot a gerund without a computer's help.