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By Paul Tuthillhttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-975897.mp3Springfield, MA – The U.S.Government has opened the checkbook…

Before Hurricane Katrina hit land, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, FEMA Director Michael Brown and other top agency officials received e-mails warning that Katrina posed a dire threat to New Orleans and other areas. Yet one FEMA official tells NPR little was done.

The lawsuit was originally filed in September 2020 by Kelvin Brown, who argued that the strawberry Pop-Tarts box is "misleading" because the pastries also contain apples and pears in their filling.

In the first of a series of reports on single working mothers in Maine, NPR's Noah Adams visits TJ's restaurant in Auburn for a conversation with two waitresses, Tammy Ogden and Deborah Simpson, and a dishwasher, Rebecca Brown. The wait staff are paid $3.18 an hour, half of Maine's minimum wage, plus tips. They like the spilt shift work, which allows them to spend time with their youngsters in the late afternoon. Simpson now works just half of the year at TJ's, so she can serve in the Maine House of Representatives, which pays $9,000 and provides health insurance. As a lawmaker, Simpson was able to vote for her own waitress pay raise when Maine increased its minimum wage.

It is a major victory for Republicans and a serious blow to Democrats’ efforts to maintain their majority in the Senate.

Health officials in Massachusetts are recommending people take precautions this summer to protect themselves from mosquitoes that can spread illness. The…

A massive wildfire is burning in Montana. But the money needed to fight the fires is becoming an issue.

The wildfire burst into Yosemite National Park on Friday after growing to more than 105,620 acres, the U.S. Forestry Service says. Gov. Brown declared a state of emergency for San Francisco, 150 miles away, because of the fire's threat to public utilities.

His best-known work — the music to A Charlie Brown Christmas — is currently airing across the country once again. But as a new anthology attests, Vince Guaraldi wrote and performed a lot more music that deserves attention, too.

Cankerworms and hackberry leafrollers are feasting on foliage and leaving yards in the Dallas-Fort Worth area covered in silk. Scientists attribute the outbreak to recent heavy rains.