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The 62-year-old soul singer was discovered by Daptone Records while performing his James Brown tribute act. Bradley's debut album, No Time for Dreaming, is the realization of a lifelong dream.

The county sheriff said Rodney Howard-Browne's "reckless disregard for human life put hundreds of people in his congregation at risk." He has questioned the seriousness of the coronavirus threat.

It's the last Food Friday of 2022. Joining us for a bit of New Year's fun are Deanna Fox and John Fischer! Call in and join the party. 800-348-2551. Or email VoxPop@wamc.org. WAMC's Ray Graf hosts.

Bill Melendez, the animator who gave life to Snoopy, Charlie Brown and other Peanuts characters on the small and big screens died Tuesday. He was 91. Melendez animated TV specials such as A Charlie Brown Christmas and was the voice of Snoopy.

Buffalo's 2021 mayoral election featured democratic socialist India Walton beating establishment incumbent Byron Brown in the Democratic primary, only to lose to him in the general election.

Daniel James Brown decided to adapt his book after an increasing number of young people told him they loved the story.

Mark Brown's raccoon Rebekah was confiscated after he posted videos of him dancing and showering with his pet. Tenn. law prohibits keeping native animals captured in the wild as pets. Brown tried but failed to get the law changed.

Film historian DAVID J. SKAL. He's an expert on the horror film genre. His books include Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen (W.W. Norton) and The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror (Penguin, paperback). His newest book (written in collaboration with Elias Savada) is Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning, Hollywood's Master of the Macabre (Anchor Books). Tod Browning was a film director who earned the reputation as "the Edgar Allan Poe of the cinema." He directed Lon Chaney and Bela Lugosi and made such films as "Dracula" and the "repellent. . . and pathetic" "Freaks."

Criminal defense attorney Johnnie Cochran died Tuesday at age 67 of cancer, after having been diagnosed in 2003 with an inoperable brain tumor. In 1995, Cochran won O.J. Simpson a not-guilty verdict in the slayings of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Over the years, Cochran defended celebrities as well as lesser-known individuals. He represented football great Jim Brown, as well as rappers Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg and Sean Combs. (Originial airdate: 10/10/96)

In Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity, Lester Brown says the world's food supply is tightening, and the reasons are many. People in developing countries are eating more meat, a grain-intensive food; farmers are overpumping, causing water tables to fall; and crop yields have plateaued, despite technological advances.