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Donna Green-Townsend of member station WUFT in Gainesville, Florida reports smoke and the threat of more fires had kept most residents of the town of Waldo, Florida from returning to their homes, but late today they received word that they may finally go home. Residents were forced to evacuate earlier this week when a nearby forest fire threatened the town. Officials say they believe the fire danger will soon pass and residents will be able to go back home in a day or two. The Waldo blaze is one of more than 100 fires that have scorched over 48,000 acres in Florida in the last 3 weeks. President Clinton has declared 8 Florida counties federal disaster areas.

Volunteers with the LiTEArary society read to children who live in "book deserts" and bring them their own books.

It's been just over a week since a train carrying hazardous material derailed and caused a fiery crash in Ohio. Some residents worried about health risks have filed a federal lawsuit.

Progress is being made toward bringing water to thousands of Central Valley residents in underserved communities where wells have run dry. The question is how long this solution will last.

High in the Andes, a Peruvian farmer challenges a European energy giant as a German court nears a landmark climate ruling.

When he returns to his hometown of Whitefish next week, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will be greeted by billboards and a media campaign urging him to...

Follow news and updates from the field as 13 states vote.

Hospital deaths are more expensive and intrusive than deaths at home, in hospice care or even in nursing homes. Financial incentives favor more care, even when it's not always wanted.

Candidates blanket Iowa in a final blitz before the caucuses. David Greene talks to David Yepsen, former chief political correspondent at the Des Moines Register, now at Southern Illinois University.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with retired Marine Corps Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander of CENTCOM, about the fall of Kabul, Afghanistan, to the Taliban one year later.