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http://66.225.205.104/JR20120113.mp3 XiuXia Du's team of scientists at the North Carolina Research Campus. (L to R: Peter Pham, XiuXia Du, Wen Chao Zhang,…

MOORESVILLE - If Tuesday night's ReStore ReStyle 2011 Design Challenge accomplished one thing, it proved there are some incredible finds at Our Towns…

Students, staff and parents of Northwest School of the Arts arrived at the Charlotte school in shock Tuesday morning, dealing with the death of their…

http://66.225.205.104/JR20120113.mp3 XiuXia Du's team of scientists at the North Carolina Research Campus. (L to R: Peter Pham, XiuXia Du, Wen Chao Zhang,…

When a powerful tornado slammed into Joplin, Mo., in May 2011, 161 people were killed. The tornado also knocked down thousands of buildings and destroyed more than 15,000 of the city's trees. Lack of rain is now threatening the survival of thousands of donated saplings planted to reforest Joplin.

Several times during these Olympics, there've been moments when the Olympic oath seemed all but forgotten — you know, the one at the opening ceremony where athletes pledged to abide by the rules and spirit of fair play.

Melissa Block talks with GOP Deputy Whip Peter Roskam, a congressman from Illinois, about why he says the Supreme Court ruling in favor of the Affordable Care Act is not a victory for Americans, as the president claimed Thursday.

Despite decades of global efforts to get cleaner cookstoves to the poor in Bangladesh, very few have adopted them. A new study suggests talking more about the stoves' cheaper fuel costs and less about health hazards may help.

Oyster farmers have developed coping strategies for the higher levels of carbon dioxide that make it hard to grow oysters off the West Coast. But some scientists warn that the problem is only going to get worse.

Congress hasn't been doing much lately — at least in terms of congressional work. In terms of fundraising for their re-election campaigns, however, they're as busy as can be.

The singer-songwriter has gone multiplatinum in dozens of countries, winning a Grammy, a Latin Grammy and Canadian and British equivalents. Furtado describes her fifth album, out this month, as fun, with lots of big beats and adrenaline but also a spiritual thread.

Host Scott Simon speaks with Craig Bennett and Michael Miller about being awarded a 2012 Ig Nobel prize for their paper on the brain waves of dead Atlantic Salmon, published in the Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results.

http://66.225.205.104/JR20110111.mp3In a stock deal worth $13.7 billion, Duke Energy will buy Raleigh-based Progress Energy and become the largest utility…

This week on Morning Edition, WFAE’s Lisa Miller took a look at the charter school movement. We will be seeing a lot more of those because the legislature…

The clean-cut crooner had 18 gold albums and hits that stretched from the '60s into the '90s.

Robert Lorenz's directorial debut, Trouble with the Curve, pits new against old on the most American of battlegrounds: the baseball field. Critic Mark Jenkins says the film's unfussy sensibility does justice to its exploration of family, purpose and love of the game.

Writer-director Kerry Prior's horror comedy centers on an undead Iraq vet who takes to vigilante justice to supply his hunger for flesh. Critic Scott Tobias says the anti-war sentiment is incisive, though the film is structurally flabby.

A proposal by Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx to study political consolidation of the city of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County governments appears to have…

http://66.225.205.104/TL20120807.mp3 Bersin has been working out with the special teams as a kickoff and punt returner. Photo: Tanner Latham The Carolina…

http://66.225.205.104/SG2011Trucking.mp3A newcomer to Charlotte is usually quick to learn just what a big deal the banking industry is here. But we don't…