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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.

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

A new study estimates obesity and a lack of exercise costs San Diego County more than $3 billion a year. The report comes from the non-profit California Center for Public Health Advocacy.

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.

U.S. Olympic windsurfer Nancy Rios may be six inches shorter than her competitors, but she is a formidable opponent on the water. Extensive physical training and experience has driven her success.

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.

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.