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The musician, who played bass and sang with the influential all-women country music band from 1989-93, was pronounced deceased on the scene.

NPR's Philip Davis reports on the arrival today of the bodies of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and others killed in a plane crash in Croatia earlier this week. President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore and families of the victims were at Dover Air Force Base to receive the bodies.

Incumbent Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, faces an uphill battle in the November election against her expected challenger, Republican Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt.

Liane Hansen talks with singer/songwriter/playwright/actor scar Brown, Jr. His 1960 debut album SIN & SOUL ...AND THEN SOME Columbia/Legacy CK 64994) has just been re-issued. He also sings one of his riginal songs for us in NPR's performance studio.

For over 30 years the animated television special, A Charlie Brown Christmas, has entertained millions. Lee Mendelson produced that program and the others that followed based on the Charles M. Schulz Peanuts comic strip characters. Mendelson talks to Noah about the making of the popular annual Christmas special.

The Air Force is blaming its commanders and crew, along with poor airport design, for the plane crash that killed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 other people in April. The accident report released today says commanders did not give Air Force crews operating in former communist countries the right training to deal with poor safety conditions at some of those airports. The Brown party was trying to land at Dubrovnik, Croatia, when the plane crashed, killing everyone on board. NPR's Martha Raddatz reports the analysis also blames the pilots for some of their decisions.

Conservative author David Horowitz sought to place ads in college newspapers across the country denouncing calls for reparations to African-Americans for slavery. Most papers declined to run the ads. Many of those that did sparked protests on their campuses. Av Harris reports from Providence -- Brown University was one of the schools whose paper ran the ad.

In 1969, an 11-year-old white girl and a young, African American woman disappeared and died in Baltimore. The two cases were treated very differently by the media — and inspired Lippman's new novel.

LAURA KAPLAN is the author of the new book, "The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service," (Pantheon Books). In 1969 this underground abortion service began operation in Chicago, four years before Roe v. Wade. The members of "Jane" were lay-persons who learned how to perform abortions themselves. LAURA KAPLAN was a member of Jane. She was also a founding member of a Chicago-based women's health-care center. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

Ingraham tweeted that Parkland shooting survivor and gun-control activist David Hogg whined about being rejected from four colleges. She apologized after Hogg called for an ad boycott of her show.