Watch your mouth, California.

On a voice vote, the Assembly passed a resolution Thursday declaring the first week of March each year as "Cuss-Free Week" and inviting, but not requiring, Californians to comply. » read more

Educators and school boards in North Texas are racing to equip their students with the essential tool of the 21st-century learner: laptop computers.

Irving schools and the Northwest school district were among the first in the area to embrace the technology. » read more

More frustrated homeowners turned to federal court this week for help with their mortgages, saying Bank of America and Wells Fargo failed to provide promised payment modifications.

Three specific families are identified, one with a loan serviced by Bank of America and two by Wells Fargo — the nation's two largest mortgage servicers. They were granted trial modifications, according to court documents, but haven't received long-term modifications despite having submitted all required documents and made timely payments for more than three months. » read more

With every failed attempt to blow an airplane out of the sky, along comes tighter security.

Starting this week in Kansas City and at airports nationwide, security screeners are expanding efforts to sniff out explosives with random tests of passengers and their luggage. » read more

Three years ago, Russ Rector, a Fort Lauderdale dolphin trainer turned marine mammal activist, said he wrote SeaWorld a letter warning it was pushing its show mammals too hard to wow audiences, thereby inviting attacks on trainers.

"I warned them this was going to happen," Rector said. "Happy animals don't kill their trainers." » read more