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Astronomer DAVID LEVY. He's discovered 21 comets, both as an amateur and as part of a professional team. He discovered the comet that will crash into Jupiter on July 16th, and the comet is named after him. LEVY is a contributer to many astronomical magazines, and is the author of numerous books on astronomy. He has recently published "Quest for Comets: An Explosive Trail of beauty and Danger" (Plenum Press), and has another book "Skywatching" (Nature Company) forthcoming in July.(Originally broadcast 6

http://66.225.205.104/SO20090508.mp3Sonic Automotive posted a profit for the first quarter, weeks after the Fortune 500 company submitted a regulatory…

http://66.225.205.104/LM20100511.mp3The Charlotte Mecklenburg School board is voting tonight on a budget for next year. CMS Superintendent Peter Gorman…

Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones will take a $20,000 pay cut next year, while salaries for other county employees will remain flat. "I just felt…

We're using numbers to highlight some of the stories of 2013. We look now at the situation in Iraq and the number is 6,639. Steve Inkseep talks to William Dunlop of Agence France-Presse, which has been compiling numbers of those killed and wounded in Iraq.

The Labor Department on Friday said the nation's jobless rate fell to 6.7 percent as U.S. employers added 74,000 jobs to payrolls while more Americans stopped looking for work in December. In November, the unemployment rate was 7 percent.

The U.S. economy gained just 74,000 jobs in December, according to a disappointing report released by the Labor Department on Friday. Economists had been expecting nearly three times as many jobs. At the same time, the unemployment rate fell slightly, to 6.7 percent. It's not that more jobs were created, though — many of the long-term unemployed just stopped looking.

The giant coffee chain sent a cease-and-desist letter to the owner of Exit 6 Pub and Brewery in Missouri. Starbucks told the pub to stop referring to one of its dark, frothy beers as "the frappicino." Starbucks noted it sounds a lot like its trademarked frozen coffee drink.

A Confederate war memorial on the grounds of Old City Hall on Trade Street has been defaced.Someone spray painted “Racist” on the memorial, which was…

The National Museum of the American Latino in Washington won't be finished for a decade. For now, a pop-up exhibit at the National Mall highlights Latino history. (Story aired on WeSAT on 6/18/22.)

The Supreme Court ruled that race-conscious admissions are unconstitutional in a pair of cases involving Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Read the full opinion.

We unpack the latest in Trump's legal landscape and take your questions.

Judge Arun Subramanian said that the juror's conflicting statements about which state he currently resides in may have been an attempt to get on and stay on the federal trial of the hip-hop mogul.

European countries put more restrictive measures in place to control the spread of COVID-19. France has a strict overnight curfew, but the government says that's not enough to slow the virus down.

Acting U.S. Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman told a House committee that the department expects to answer "for our failings on Jan. 6."

4: Former Cardinals' pitcher BOB GIBSON was a record-breaking baseball player in the 1960's, and was inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame in 1981. His autobiography explores his rise from the Omaha projects to the major leagues, and being an early black ballplayer. The book is Stranger to the Game (Viking). (Originally Broadcast 10/6/94)INT 5: Former Major Leaguer KEITH HERNANDEZ. Called by some baseball purists the "finest First Baseman in the game," HERNANDEZ played with the St. Louis Cardinals, the New York Mets, and the Cleveland Indians. He is the winner of eleven consecutive Golden Glove Awards for fielding, and played in two World Championships. HERNANDEZ's is author of Pure Baseball: Pitch by Pitch for the Advanced Fan (Harper): analysis of two 1993 match-ups, with play by play commentary, based on his seventeen years in the game. (Originally Broadcast 2

Non-essential city building lights in Raleigh will be shut off each night from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. through the end of November to help with bird migration.

Linda continues her interview with Sandra Wood about the facts presented in the Whitewater trial. 5. POLITICAL FALLOUT -- NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the verdict in the Whitewater trial has cast a shadow over President Clinton, who just a week ago was far ahead of Dole in the polls. Funder 0:29 XPromo 0:29 CUTAWAY 1B 0:29 RETURN1 0:29 NEWS 2:59 NEWS 1:59 THEME MUSIC 0:29 1C 6. CHINA DISSIDENT -- Noah talks with Mike Jendrzejczyk (jenn-DREEZ-sick), the Washington Director of Human Rights Watch-Asia. Chinese police have detained dissident Wang Donghai (WAHNG dong-HY) after he and six other activists petitioned the National People's Congress on May 27th, demanding the release of political prisoners. Mr. Jendrzejczyk believes that paranoia in the Chinese government toward the democracy movement has increased in recent months as economic reforms have triggered more unrest. This recent round of arrests comes one week before the anniversary of the military crackdown that ended pro- democracy protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4th, 1989.

Long-time fans of Detroit, Michigan-based PAS/CAL have certainly had to be patient over the years. Although the pop band, led by songwriter Casimer Pascal, released its first EP in 2002, its full-length debut came out only this past July. But the intriguingly titled I Was Raised on Matthew, Mark, Luke & Laura has turned out to be more than worth the 6-year wait.

Back in 1973, Cash told her father that she wanted to play country music for a living. Johnny Cash was, to put it mildly, an authority on the subject, so he made her a list of 100 essential songs she needed to hear as she embarked on her career. The List, heard here in its entirety for the week leading up to its Oct. 6 release, finds the younger Cash performing 12 of those songs.