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The Indiana Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would require Hoosiers with drug related offenses to obtain a prescription before purchasing cold and allergy medicine. The authors say it's the next step in the fight to reduce methamphetamine production.

The annual Kids Count report says students who have a job during their high school years are less likely to drop out, and those who participate in programs that give them work experience are more likely to go to college.

Clostridium difficile sickens nearly half a million Americans annually, killing about 29,000, say federal health officials. They warn hospitals and nursing homes to tighten hygiene protocols.

Indiana saw another year of steep growth in its private school voucher program, with more than 29,000 students using the program to attend private school now estimated to be costing taxpayers more than $116 million. That's an increase in participation of nearly 50 percent during this past year.

The Republican-controlled House has killed a controversial measure that aimed to boost HPV vaccination rates in order to reduce the prevalence of cervical and other cancers in Indiana.

Lessons from a handful of the most-viewed papers from the American Education Research Association last year.

Intelligence sources tell NPR that they can confirm the ISIS figure's name is Mohammed Emwazi and that he is from London, is college-educated, and was born in Kuwait.

Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. visited Los Angeles and spoke to a standing room-only crowd at Temple Israel. The synagogue honors his legacy by replaying the speech once a year.

The Indiana Arts Commission said Wednesday that Plymouth High School senior Emma Libersky won this year's state finals in the Poetry Out Loud competition.

The messy rollout of the online exchanges under the Affordable Care Act has provided fodder for Republicans determined to make Obamacare an issue in the 2014 elections. A handful of Democratic incumbents in battleground states are among senators now calling for an extension of the open enrollment period, which could be a way to curry favor in relatively conservative states.