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Reed Farrel Coleman holds down a job as a commercial truck driver. But that doesn't stop him from writing mysteries in his free time. His Moe Prager series has won a slew of major awards.

In Episode #9, Jeanne Woodford, former Warden of San Quentin State Prison and former Acting Secretary of the California Department of Corrections and…

All the Republican presidential candidates are campaigning in South Carolina Thursday because the primary is on Saturday. Many voters have still not made up their minds which candidate to vote for.

Kwame Brown, Chairman of Washington DC’s City Council, is the youngest chairman in the history of the city. As a result, Brown says he’s constantly…

Beekeepers in Alsace couldn't figure out why their honey was coming out in shades of blue and green. But the answer was not far away. A plant that processes waste from an M&M factory was just too tempting to the bees.

Last Saturday, President Bush surprised guests at the annual Gridiron Dinner by singing part of his remarks. The event for journalists was off the record, but now the president's performance has made it onto YouTube, and the White House says that's OK. We take a listen.

The nonpartisan group Free Press is calling on stations to do just that. At the very least, the group says, stations should fact check more. A new study by the group found that stations almost never reject third-party and superPAC ads — and few of them were engaging in serious fact checking.

Author Dinaw Mengestu is among a generation of Ethiopian Americans whose families fled the East African nation in the 1970s and '80s. Now their writing, music and art are adding a new chapter to the epic of American immigration.

This year marks the centennial of Everyman's classics, and the publishing house Alfred A. Knopf recently relaunched the library. Editor Sonny Mehta and writers Joan Didion and Z.Z. Packer talk about what makes a classic.

In the nation's sluggish job market, workers sometimes complain of a lack of choices. But for job seekers with a prison record, those choices are even more limited. Counselor Mark Klass knows firsthand about those challenges.

Egypt has released a political prisoner whose case attracted international attention. Ayman Nour, head of a small liberal party calling for multiparty-elections, was imprisoned on Jan. 29. Two weeks ago, President Hosni Mubarak agreed to open Egypt's next election.

Though they are held in stark isolation, gang members remain active at a California prison. And once a prisoner is in a gang, it's tough to get out. Hear the second part of an American RadioWorks report on the gangs of Pelican Bay State Prison.