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No other state in the lower 48 depends on the oil business more than Louisiana. Since the 1930s, Louisiana has been heavily taxing oil companies to pay for public services. But the trade-off has been costly, even before the great oil spill of 2010.

Sundays, July 29, August 5 and 26, Sept. 2, 2012 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV. What made America? What makes us? These two questions are at the heart of the series. Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. turns to the latest tools of genealogy and genetics to explore the family histories of 12 renowned Americans.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case next year on whether and when privacy rights extend to text messages sent by public employees on work-issued devices. In the private realm, employees have almost no expectation of privacy when using company-issued equipment.

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There's a saying in Rwanda: "God spends the day elsewhere, but he sleeps in Rwanda." It alludes to Rwanda's physical beauty, but also to the brutality that has sometimes haunted the country. Joseph Sebarenzi captures both in his memoir, God Sleeps in Rwanda.

Kimberly and & Scott Roberts in Trouble the Water (Zeitgeist Films)

Grieving relatives began burying some of the 25 coal miners killed in a massive underground explosion. Meanwhile, crews ventured back into the mine Friday despite increasingly slim odds of finding survivors.

More than 150,000 Americans die from trauma each year. It is the leading cause of death for people aged 1-45, and a growing problem for seniors who are living longer, more active lives. Unfortunatel

Police fired tear gas at looters in the central Chilean city of Concepcion as the country's president and the United Nations vowed to speed delivery of food and water in the aftermath of an earthquake and tsunami that have killed more than 700 people.

Scientists used to think teenage brains are just like those of adults — with fewer miles on them. But they're not. Teens' brains are developmentally different. One neurologist mother decided to get to the roots of her son's maddening behavior.