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Covering the drug beat is dangerous. In some parts of the country, reports about drug-related crime simply do not appear in newspapers or on news broadcasts. Reporters have been abducted and killed and their families threatened.

Galveston, Texas, has endured oil spills and hurricanes. It took 10 months to cap the ruptured well that caused the Ixtoc oil spill in 1979. The aftermath of the spill was compounded by hurricanes and more oil. Decades later, residents have mostly forgotten the trauma and continue to recover, one disaster at a time.

Microscopic plants in the ocean are among the most important creatures on Earth and produce half of the planet's oxygen. But they are in trouble. A new study finds that since 1950, the amount of phytoplankton in the ocean's surface waters has declined by 40 percent.

Experts dismiss assertions by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that the documents his website leaked are as important as the Vietnam-era papers.

The federal government today announced $15 million in grants for five communities near military installations around the country, including San Diego, for programs that provide housing assistance and supportive services to prevent homelessness among veterans.

Airs Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

A Tea Party group compared the president to Hitler and Lenin, saying he's another socialist. Some members criticized the sign, which only went up last week, and the group's co-founder acknowledged that the pictures overwhelmed the intended message of anti-socialism.

Legalizing the recreational use of marijuana in California would sharply drive down prices for the drug, causing more people to use pot while possibly undercutting the tax windfall that supporters have touted, according to a study published Wednesday.

Michael Haynie served 14 years in the U.S. Air Force before becoming an assistant professor at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. He now leads the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities, which he founded in 2007 to teach veterans with injuries from Iraq and Afghanistan how to go into business for themselves. Host Michel Martin talks with Haynie, along with Brian Iglesias, who served two tours of duty in Iraq, where he was injured by a roadside bomb. Iglesias completed Haynie's program and is now President and CEO of his own film production company, Veterans Inc.

Sending text messages from behind the wheel will soon be illegal in more than half the country. New restrictions go into effect in July in Georgia and five other states. But there are questions about how police can determine whether people are texting before they crash -- and whether these laws work.