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As Armistice Day, or Veterans' Day, marks the end of WWI and honors soldiers sacrifices, it seems fitting that a number of this week's new titles tackle endings and new beginnings.

For two astronauts, an eight day mission to the International Space Station has stretched into two months due to vehicle issues. Now, NASA says it's considering bringing them back in a SpaceX capsule.

A new Trump-backed voting map reopens Kansas City's racial divide along Troost Avenue.

There have been more than 100 deaths following the flash floods in Texas, and dozens more are still unaccounted for. We remember some of those lost in the floods.

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.

Betty Corwin, creator of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, has died at 98. Her project preserves theatrical performances for theater professionals, scholars and New York library card holders.

She made history at the Little League World Series, becoming the first girl to pitch a shutout. With an uncanny arm and easy cool, she's leading a band of underdogs deeper into the postseason.

The Williamsburg Bray School was an 18th-century, pro-slavery school for educating enslaved and free Black students. A new partnership is calling to educate the public about this history.

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 &