LOS ANGELES - A group of college journalists file in and slowly fill a conference room in a swank hotel - the kind that, as a public school student, you've probably never seen. In a few minutes, these...

Down a steep path parallel to the Mississippi River and under a bridge jutting out of a cliff, Canada Dan often sits at home, smoking cigarettes and reading by flashlight. Dan said he has been homeless...

Death penalty opponents rallied at the Capitol on Thursday following a committee hearing on a bill to reinstate the penalty in Minnesota. Religious clergy, legislators and murder victims' groups spoke...