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To help wean Europe off Russian gas, the White House wants to increase natural gas exports. Critics say that's at odds with climate goals. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on May 4, 2022.)

http://66.225.205.104/SC20080221.mp3 StoryCorps' mobile recording booth is in Charlotte this month. In this installment of StoryCorps-Charlotte, Nancy…

http://66.225.205.104/CT20090831.mp3Students are settling in for a new school year all over the region but it will be an unsettling year for the 38…

http://66.225.205.104/JB20060106A.mp3(1/6/06) Officers with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department HITS (Highway Interdiction Traffic Safety) unit…

Rick Rodgers works with familiar warm-weather flavors and tweaks them just a bit. Try it yourself with Spaghetti with Roasted Summer Vegetable Sauce or Grilled Chicken with White Rosemary Barbecue Sauce.

Trumpeter Wallace Roney played Davis' understudy for many years. So it was fitting when he resurrected a long-lost orchestral composition that Wayne Shorter wrote for his mentor.

The suspects, police say, "had it all wrong." They thought they were firing at rival gang members. Instead, they were shooting at teens who weren't associated with gangs. Hadiya Pendleton's death has gotten national attention. It happened a mile from President Obama's Chicago home.

http://66.225.205.104/LM20080910.mp3 A Virginia lawmaker is calling for a legislative investigation into how Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Rodney…

Updated: 2:55 p.m. Three separate shootings in Charlotte Sunday took the lives of three people, according to reports by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police. The…

This is probably the quietest you'll ever hear the first metal band to play the Tiny Desk.

CMPD said officers arrested a woman who refused to roll down her windows and exit her vehicle during a traffic stop in east Charlotte Friday night.…

Diaz is retiring at a time when his department is under close scrutiny by the Department of Justice, which found the department policed in a bias manner.

In July 1957, Buddy Holly left Texas with only one record climbing the charts. Five months later, sporting capped teeth, a sharp suit, and horn-rimmed glasses, Holly debuted live on The Ed Sullivan Show. Like Elvis Presley only a year before, Holly had made it to prime time TV.

2: For over 15 years, LINDA FAIRSTEIN (FAIR-STINE) has directed the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit of the Manhattan D.A.'s office. The unit was the first of it's kind, and has become a model for others in cities across the country. When FAIRSTEIN began working there, rape cases were rarely tried in court, rape victims were sitigmatized, and there was little understanding about rape in society. Over the years, FAIRSTEIN and her colleagues have made great strides in combating such crimes, and improving conviction rates. FAIRSTEIN has written a new book about their work, "Sexual Violence: Our War Against Rape." (William Morrow &

Measha Brueggergosman is a young soprano on the rise. Her major label debut, Surprise, features offbeat cabaret songs by Satie and Schoenberg. She describes the CD as "classical music letting its hair down."

The Academy's Board of Governors plans to meet on April 18 to decide on how to discipline Will Smith.

Research suggests less than 5 percent of students at America's top colleges and universities come from low-income families. Many of these elite institutions recognize the problem and are taking steps to boost economic diversity on campus -- such as offering full scholarships for underprivileged students. NPR's Anthony Brooks reports.

A leaking liquid propane gas tank inside of a Given Coffee Company food truck ignited causing a fire and explosion. The four people who sustained injuries are in stable condition but will require further medical attention.

According to WUNC, 14 Confederate monuments in North Carolina have been taken down – or are in the process of being taken down – since the death of George…

http://66.225.205.104/LM20110131a.mp3A group of community leaders and philanthropists is hatching a plan to boost performance at West Charlotte High…