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Former Rochester Drug Co-Operative CEO Laurence Doud III, facing criminal charges stemming from the opioid crisis, leaves the federal courthouse in Manhattan on Tuesday.

Drug Distributor And Former Execs Face First Criminal Charges In Opioid Crisis

A DEA official said the indictments are meant to send "shock waves" through the pharmaceutical industry to remind it of its responsibility to help control prescription medications.

Host Jorge Meraz (center) helps remove pottery from a Raku kiln under the supervision of Ellen Parry (right) from Baja Rancho Art, located at Rancho La Bellota, a guest ranch just outside of Tecate, Baja Calif.

CROSSING SOUTH: Art At The Ranch

Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App. Watercolor, photography, clay pottery, and more. Host Jorge Meraz meets a group of talented artists and participates in a hands-on art class.

New York City-based poets Dorothea Lasky and Alex Dimitrov — the voices behind the viral Twitter account "Astro Poets" — aim to change the way the Internet sees the zodiac.

2 Viral Twitter Poets Are Rewriting The Book On Astrology

Dorothea Lasky and Alex Dimitrov of Astro Poets want to bring astrology up to speed with shifting views of gender, sexuality and pop culture.

Pulitzer Prizes Honor Journalists Under Threat With New Crop Of Winners

Judges sought to support the media "even if some wrongly degrade [it] as the enemy of the very democracy it serves." Honors went to The Advocate in Baton Rouge, La., Florida's Sun-Sentinel and others.

Pulitzer Prizes Honor Journalists Under Threat With New Crop Of Winners

Judges sought to support the media "even if some wrongly degrade [it] as the enemy of the very democracy it serves." Honors went to The Advocate in Baton Rouge, La., Florida's Sun-Sentinel and others.

Keith Miller and Ellen Hughes both have sons with autism. At StoryCorps in February, Ellen tells Keith how grateful she is that he unexpectedly comforted her son during an emergency room visit last year.

A Mother Of A Son With Autism Thanks A Stranger Who Helped: 'Nobody Does What You Do'

At StoryCorps, Ellen Hughes tells Keith Miller, who also has a son with autism, how much it meant to her when he comforted her son Walker on a difficult visit to the ER last year.

Students in Scott Bedley's fifth-grade class at Plaza Vista School in Irvine, Calif., play a version of "Simon Says" with fake news.

5 Ways Teachers Are Fighting Fake News

In an era of national attention to what's real and what isn't, we asked educators to share their strategies for helping students sort out fact from fiction.

Blizzard warnings have been issued for the Rockies and Plains areas, where a second bomb cyclone is predicted. Here, a man uses a bulldozer to clear snow in Limon, Colo., that was left by a bomb cyclone that swept across much of the state last month.

A Second Bomb Cyclone: Colorado Predicted To Go From 80 Degrees To A Blizzard

A "potentially historic spring blizzard" will hit this week, according to the National Weather Service office in Aberdeen, S.D.

Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah attends an event on Wednesday.

Death By Stoning Among Punishments In New Brunei Anti-LGBT, Criminal Laws

The punishments are part of Brunei's penal code, first announced in 2013. While the new laws stipulate the death penalty for certain offenses, Brunei has not executed anyone in decades.

A 2011 file photo of Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub. Weintraub warns that a new federal court decision could open the way for fraudsters to bilk political donors.

Federal Court Ruling May Open The Door To More 'Scam PACs'

The decision would allow super PACs to raise money by using a candidate's name, even if none of the money ends up going to support that candidate.

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