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Pratt Industries, a provider of custom packaging solutions, plans to expand its York County operations with a new manufacturing facility. The company says a $92.5 million investment will create 116 new jobs.Pratt is one of the largest corrugated packaging companies in the country and one of the world’s largest, privately held producers of 100% recycled containerboard.The company will upfit the facility located on Williams Industrial Blvd. in Rock Hill to manufacture its packaging products. Pratt also currently operates a recycling center in Rock Hill.

After months in space, astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are finally scheduled to return home in a SpaceX capsule on Tuesday evening.

President Bush speaks at the NAACP's 97th annual convention in Washington, D.C. It's his first visit to the gathering since becoming president. Democratic Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton, Ted Kennedy and Barack Obama have already addressed the gathering of about 4,000 people.

This weekend, Ludacris and Nelly will be the latest to battle on Instagram Live's Verzuz series. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to reporter William E. Ketchum III about the popularity of the series.

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, once viewed as having 2016 ambitions, is not having a good year. He's at the center of state and federal investigations involving $145,000 in questionable financial assistance from a political donor whose company McDonnell and his wife took steps to promote. That includes $15,000 to help pay for their daughter's wedding — a disclosure made by the former chef at the Executive Mansion, himself accused of stealing food.

Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, opens at Disneyland Friday. The attraction features sights and sounds of the universe, including a life size Millennium Falcon where the rider gets to fly the hunk of junk.

Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of the police killing of Keith Lamont Scott – and the birth of a protest movement called Charlotte Uprising.The…

Despite inflation, this year is on track for the third-busiest Thanksgiving travel season in over two decades, according to AAA.

President-elect Barack Obama has filled about half of the openings in his Cabinet. A new Gallup Poll shows nearly 4 out of 5 Americans approve of his transition moves so far. But, could there be a price to be paid for this early popularity?

The Japanese-American National Museum in Los Angeles has, for the first time ever, compiled the names of all 125,000 people of Japanese descent who were incarcerated during World War II.

2: Journalist HOWARD KURTZ. He is media reporter for "The Washington Post." He has a new book, "Media Circus: The Trouble with America's Newspapers," (Times Books). In the book he looks at how the press has bungled some important stories like the HUD scandal and the S&L mess, the William Kennedy Smith trial, and the Clarence Thomas hearings.

Journalist KIM RICH. She's written a memoir, "Johnny's Girl," (William Morrow & Co.) about growing up in Anchorage, Alaska during the oil boom years, the daughter of "one of the most notorious underworld figures in the city." Her father operated illegal gambling houses and massage parlors all over the city. RICH's father was eventually murdered. [REBROADCAST. Originally aired 3/31/93.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Body of Evidence," the new film starring Madonna and William DeFoe.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has unexpectedly freed two Americans who had been jailed in Iraq. The men, William Barloon and David Daliberti, were arrested and sentenced to 8 years in prison after they entered Iraq from Kuwait by mistake last March. The Americans were freed after US Congressman Bill Richardson (of New Mexico) met with Saddam.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Jerusalem on the $500 million missile defense system, to be funded by the US and Israel, which is designed to protect Israel from weapons of mass destruction. After meeting with Prime Minister Shimon Perez, U-S Defense Secretary William Perry also said the U-S would be willing to station U-S troops in the Golan Heights to guarantee peace.

George Kerscher is his daughter Zoey's biggest fan. She's on her high school basketball team and he goes to every game. William Marcus reports that when she started, he could see fine...now he's nearly blind. So a retired sportscaster sits next to George at every game and gives him a play by play.

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) calls for an investigation of SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt's handling of the appointment of ex-FBI and CIA chief William Webster to head a new accounting oversight agency. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

Harvey Pitt resigns as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Pitt had a stormy 15-month tenure as SEC chief and was recently under fire for his handling of the appointment of William Webster to head an accounting oversight board. Hear NPR's Jim Zarroli and James Cox of Duke University.

Anne Williams reviews this folk rock group out of Minneapolis. Their new album, called "Songs from the Gypsy," has inspired a novel, which fans can read and listen on a cd-rom version. The album tells a story of a gypsy named Dove and the search for his two brothers, Raven and Owl. Some of the songs are completely acoustic, others have heavy metal riffs.

Novelist and biographer PETER ACKROYD. He's written nine novels and and biographies of Charles Dickens and T.S. Eliot. His latest biography is of the 18th century poet, painter and engraver William Blake. It's "Blake: A Biography," (Alfred A. Knopf) (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES AFTER THE 1:00 FL