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A gallon of gas has jumped 10 cents per gallon in a week. The price of a barrel of oil is in record territory at about $70. Analysts blame the high cost of crude oil on strong demand, tight global supplies and political troubles in Iran.

Scientists say a great earthquake could hit the San Francisco area in the next 30 years. But many residents prefer to live in denial. Commentator Louise Rafkin talked to her friends and neighbors for an understanding of how people balance everyday danger with everyday life.

National security experts have been looking for clues about why the government decided to wiretap U.S. citizens. Author Timothy Naftali has checked the public record and has some ideas about the government's motivations.

Commentator Julie Zickefoose raised three orphaned hummingbirds a couple of years ago, never expecting to see them again. This is the story of their return.

Four years after the No Child Left Behind Act became law, test results show progress in some areas. But many schools are not reducing the achievement gap between white and minority students, and closing that gap may take longer than the law's requirements.

A fire has destroyed the landmark Pilgrim Baptist Church on Chicago's South Side. Built in 1890, the church became a catalyst for the popularity of gospel music in the 1930s under choir director Thomas Dorsey.

The documentary Our Brand is Crisis looks at the work of American consulting firm Greenberg Carville Shrum. The firm helped Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, aka Goni, win the presidency in Bolivia. The director of the film, Rachel Boynton, talks with Robert Siegel.

For months, Los Angeles city officials have complained that regional hospitals are dropping off their indigent patients in the city's tough Skid Row area. On Wednesday, a group of city council members released a videotape that seems to have caught one hospital in the act.

At a sentencing trial to determine whether he will be executed or sentenced to life in prison, Zacarias Moussaoui takes the stand and testifies that he and would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid were supposed to hijack a fifth airplane on Sept. 11, 2001, and crash it into the White House.

The scientific method is but a part of building a murder case; a National Library of Medicine exhibit stresses the impact of "visible proof" on judges and juries... and details how tools of forensic science became the bedrock of detective work.