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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.

Environmental Advocates warn New York can’t afford to wait for the next hurricane or tropical storm to hit: They're urging the state to take the lead in…

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-798423.mp3Albany, NY – Election Day 2008 was historic...an African American became the…

The Smithsonian Institution has asked volunteers to transcribe handwritten material from its vast collection. We meet a couple of the transcribers and hear what they've been working on.

The Justice Department has subpoenaed New York Times reporter Jim Risen to provide critical eyewitness testimony it says it can't get any other way in the leak case involving former CIA operative Jeffrey Sterling. Risen says he'll ask a judge to quash the subpoena, setting up a First Amendment fight and a game of chicken with high stakes.

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.