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Decertifying a police officer means taking away their badge and gun for good. More than a dozen states have enacted or strengthened paths to decertification but It’s still a relatively rare process.

The Saratoga County sheriff will not be running for a fourth term.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that there may have been as many as 12 corporate executives travelling with Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown when his plane went down over Croatia today. The executives were exploring business opportunities in Bosnia and Croatia, which are about to begin a massive rebuilding campaign.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on the closing of Sumner lementary school in Topeka, Kansas. The Sumner school was the focal point of he 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case that became the landmark decision eading to national integration.

Melinda talks with Krister Fardig, a sophomore at Brown University. Mr. Fardig is one of a group of players of a game, Sanctum, who bought it after the company went out of business.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that NATO helicopters have begun to bring down from the mountain the victims of yesterday's air crash near Dubrovnik, Croatia. The plan was carrying U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and business executives. The Clinton Administration is in mourning and messages of sympathy are flowing in from all over the world.

Secretary Ron Brown was just one of dozens of passengers aboard the United States Air Force plane that crashed this morning near the coast of Croatia. There were as many 30 others aboard. The other passengers aboard are believed to be business executives who were on a trade mission.

The confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson are set for March 21. Activists who pushed for a Black woman are excited and ready for a fight.

Although the Supreme Court ruled on her case in June, the question of who gets custody over the young girl — her biological father or the couple who adopted her — remains unsettled.

Drawing upon twenty-five years of experience representing Black youth in Washington, D.C.’s juvenile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America’s irrational, manufactured fears of these young people and makes a powerfully compelling case that the crisis in racist American policing begins with its relationship to Black children. Her book is "The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth."