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Most colleges and universities recently let anxious students know who is getting in --and who is not-- for the next academic year. And many applicants are dealing with rejection from their dream school. Host Michel Martin talks with psychotherapist Diane Barth about what students are going through, and how parents can help them move on.

Customers are more unhappy, but the carriers continue to improve their on-time performances and they're losing fewer bags. Those are among the reasons the quality of the airlines' work remains high, according to a respected study. Virgin Atlantic gets the best score. United gets the lowest.

Dennis Hopper was the chopper-riding hippie outlaw in Easy Rider, the prophetic madman in the jungle in Apocalypse Now, the terrifying psychopath in Blue…

The North Korean government officially suspended operations at the Kaesong industrial complex, withdrawing all of its more than 50,000 workers. Many see the complex as the last remaining symbol of North and South Korean unity and fear that tensions may be nearing a dangerous tipping point.

Some of the top federal law enforcement officials in Vermont say they are going to continue working with state and local police to fight trafficking of…

A new report says Vermont is on target to close the vast majority of Irene-related cases by late summer, two years after flooding from the tropical storm…

For agencies administering the low-income housing program, mandated federal budget cuts are forcing cutbacks on several fronts. But some of the belt tightening is yet to come.

Residents in Memphis, Tenn., are thrilled that Swedish appliance giant Electrolux is opening a new factory there this year. The company plans to employ 1,200 people at the new, high-tech facility. But in Webster, Iowa, an Electrolux plant closure in 2011 has left the local economy reeling.

The Preservation Trust of Vermont is raising money to buy Vermont Marble Museum in Proctor.The trust has already raised the money needed to buy some of…

The president of Vermont's Champlain College is planning to retire.President David Finney announced Monday he will retire from the job he has held at the…