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Conflict and terrorism can be good for business — if your business is teaching people to avoid kidnapping, use a barrette to get out of handcuffs or escape from the trunk of a car.

There's no licensed plumber in Jackman, Maine. So one family is offering a $2,000 scholarship to a local student or former graduate willing to get licensed as a plumber and return to work there.

The country's prime minister for the past decade has said he wants to expand the powers of the until-now largely ceremonial post.

Before the summer of 1964, major labels had little interest in Mexican-American bands. Then came The Premiers.

NPR's Arun Rath speaks with Jeremy Roebuck, reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, about what the city's police commissioner calls "one of the worst cases of corruption" he has ever heard.

An Illinois high school banned Alva Earley from graduating in 1959 after he attended a picnic in a park off-limits to blacks. This weekend, the school district corrected that injustice.

If you think that an artificial eye looks like a big glass marble, you're not alone. And you're wrong. We visit the people who made a prosthetic eye for a 5-year-old boy who lost an eye to cancer.

Some have found that renting on a nightly basis brings a lot more money than long-term leases, but people concerned about a shrinking rental market have turned to legal action and protests.

David Greene talks to University of Wisconsin bioethicist and former FDA adviser Alta Charo about ethical issues related to experimental treatments for the Ebola virus.

Brian Weir of South Dartmouth earns his living making wooden bowls and furniture. Although he works alone in his shop, his artistic career is built on a…