Kevin West

Tom Gadowski takes seven medications to treat his manic depression, spending $1,100 a month for an assortment of pills meant to fend off panic attacks, violent outbursts and suicidal thoughts.

Black studies programs sprang up by the score on college campuses following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., but more than 30 years later professors say they still must defend their field.

It seemed like a risky proposition: building a law school in a small struggling coal town isolated by the rugged Appalachian Mountains.

Scientists have identified a second faulty gene that appears to make some families prone to developing prostate cancer, a finding that someday might help doctors diagnose and treat some cases of the disease.

A scientist says he has discovered a tiny island submerged off the central California coast, more than 16,000 years after it slipped from view during the waning years of the last ice age.

Passengers flying from Britain to Florida aboard a Virgin Atlantic Airways flight said Sunday they were asked to give handwriting samples after a bomb threat scrawled on a bathroom mirror diverted them to Iceland.

Nearly 200 former Enron Corp. workers have united to demand severance pay from the bankrupt energy giant that abruptly laid them off last month.

Georgia Tech will face seven teams that played in 2001 bowl games in head coach Chan Gailey's first season on the Flats.

A doctor who was once shot by an anti-abortion protester marked the 29th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision by offering free abortions Saturday.

States and cities sent out hundreds of snowplows and salt spreaders onto highways Saturday as a fast-moving storm spread ice and up to a foot of snow along a path through the Appalachians toward the Northeast.