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The Hollywood Sign was originally constructed in 1923. After several incarnations, the most recent version has become an unmistakable American landmark. This year the Los Angeles icon is getting a makeover. NPR’s Melissa Jaeger-Miller reports from the precarious hillside scene.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been distributing checks to families whose homes were destroyed by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Cheryl Corley reports on one family's decisions on how to use the money they've received from the federal government.

To boycott or not to boycott? That's the question in the Latin community as Monday approaches. As Rob Schmitz of member station KQED reports, many are trying to discourage this particular form of protest.

At the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., soldiers who lost limbs in Iraq are being fitted with prosthethic devices, and are learning again how to walk, to write, and to deal with lingering pain. NPR's John Ydstie reports.

Our series on popular college courses continues with a class at the Juilliard School that teaches young musicians and artists how to avoid one of their biggest fears: choking under pressure during a performance. NPR's Robert Smith reports.

Search and rescue workers in hard-hit Beaumont, Texas, find major property damage, but report no deaths and few injuries. They're continuing to take stock of townspeople who stayed for the storm. Most of the city was evacuated.

A string of riots in suburban Paris is making headlines following the death of two teenage boys. Emma Charlton, a reporter for Agence France-Presse (AFP), talks about the ethnic and cultural tensions that have led to the violence and what efforts are being made to restore order.

A new report says the combined number of undergraduate degrees and credentials awarded in Kentucky rose by 3.5% in the 2018-2019 academic year. The state…

A Kentucky police officer has been fatally shot while on duty.WCHS-TV cites news partner EKB-TV to report Pikeville police Officer Scotty Hamilton was…

Hopkinsville Police say a 17-year old HHS student died after a piece of football practice equipment hit him in the head while moving it Thursday…