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During the first seven months of the state’s current fiscal year, 38 inmates have earned associate degrees and nine have completed bachelor’s degrees, according to the Illinois Department of Corrections.

The challenges facing Africa are real, but depending on who you talk to, the solution is either to risk it all for a better life in Europe or stay on the continent and fight for a better future there.

New York's Adirondack Park used to be a political powder keg. Now factions are working to find common ground, while tackling some big problems.

Why does my toddler say "no" to everything? Say everything is "mine"? Want to crash into everything? Child development experts unpack common toddler behaviors and offer advice on how parents can cope.

Today's devices are smaller and much more powerful than they were 20 years ago. New advances in technology can't solve all hearing problems, but they've improved many aspects of life for people with hearing loss.

Until now, estimating how old a dinosaur was when it died has been a fairly simple process: Count up the growth rings in the fossilized bones. But new research into some of dinosaurs' living relatives, like crocodiles, suggests that this method may not always work.

Carve a pumpkin? You can do better than that. Fun and unusual ways to celebrate the season, from writing a gratitude letter to making an ancestral altar.

On a trip through North East Washington in the 1970s, couple Lynn and Becky Miner fell in love with the stunning nature around them.

Will-o’-the-wisps are an unexplained natural phenomenon that legend says are the spirits of those who died in the swamp.

A legend has spread tha artifacts found in Alaska were donated in the 1940s to the American Museum of Natural History, and the lower quality bones were allegedly dumped in the river.