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On Opening Day of the baseball season, Liane talks with Jim Morris, a Texas high school baseball coach whose kids made a deal with him in the spring of 1999: they'd pursue their dreams, if he did, too. The former minor league pitcher, who'd retired a decade earlier because of injuries, went out for a tryout camp -- and found himself throwing the ball faster than he ever had before. Before the year was out, he was pitching in the big leagues for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, as a 35 year old rookie. Liane talks with Jim Morris, who tells his remarkable story in a new book, The Oldest Rookie: Big League Dreams from a Small Town Guy. (9:50) (NOTE: The Oldest Rookie is published by Little, Brown).

Three people from the Amtrak train were killed in addition to one person in the dump truck, authorities said.

WAMC's Lucas Willard provides the Friday morning sports report

A judge has denied an appeal by the Saratoga County District Attorney’s office in a case involving a prominent Black Lives Matter organizer and Schenectady city school board member stemming from a July 2021 protest in downtown Saratoga Springs.

Misrach Ewunetie, 20, was declared missing after her family told university police they had not heard from her in days.

In a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, scientists unearth the bones of a new species of human... a find that could rewrite the history of human evolution. About three feet tall when fully grown, Homo floresiensis resembles our most primitive ancestors, but lived as recently as 13,000 years ago.

Although he traveled the world over, the chef and TV host kept coming back to explore Cajun food culture in Louisiana in a thoughtful way. And he made life-changing impressions on some of its people.

Julia Ward Howe wrote the Civil War psalm The Battle Hymn of the Republic. She was adrift in a lonely war of her own, against a husband who controlled every aspect of her life, including what she ate.

Jacobus Pharmaceutical freely gives its experimental drug to patients with a rare disease. Now a rival wants FDA approval to sell its own version — and expects to charge at least $37,500 per year.

José Anzaldo is a third-grader who is a math whiz. He's also the son of itinerant lettuce pickers. A new documentary explores what might become of this promising boy.