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Skyrocketing gas prices are wreaking havoc on pocket books. We asked some of our listeners about what they’re doing to cope with the soaring prices.

After years of appeals and controversy, Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed Wednesday night. On Tuesday, the state board of pardons turned back a late appeal for clemency from Davis, who insists he did not kill a Savannah police officer in 1989.

Opponents of the practice say parents shouldn't impose the procedure on an infant, but let him decide for himself when he's older.

There have been advances made in speech therapy since the 1930s when Britain's King George IV worked to overcome his stammer, as well as new insights into what causes stuttering.

Mindy Kaling's humor is rooted in a type of circular logic that's all her own. Just consider this recent Tweet: "Can everyone buy my book please? I wanna quit the business and homeschool my kids real weird."

Airs Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 at 10 p.m. & Sunday, Dec. 30 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV

San Diego is one of a few California counties that plan to avoid building more jails by keeping offenders from ending up back behind bars.

"If we want to make media better then we've got to start consuming better media," says open-source-Internet activist Clay Johnson. His new book, The Information Diet, makes the case for more "conscious consumption" of news and information.

I used to live in Minneapolis where there was a bar called Stand Up Frank's. People used to say Stand Up Frank's poured the strongest drink in town, and the bar had few if any chairs. Hence the name. Ironically, Stand Up Frank's was onto something when it came to human health.

Just two months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Congress established the Transportation Security Administration, eventually hiring some 50,000 airport screeners. Ten years and $40 billion later, screening has become a routine and often frustrating part of air travel. And some critics say the system still has holes.