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Los Angeles police have arrested two elderly women on mail fraud charges for allegedly luring two homeless men into a life-insurance scam. The men turned up dead in still- unresolved hit and run cases; the women were $2.2 million richer after collecting their life insurance policies.

This weekend's Art of Cool Festival in Durham, N.C., aims to expand the audience for improvised music. So it's booked performers from modern R&B, hip-hop and beyond with deep jazz influences.

Wilson's new project, the musical equivalent of a landscape painting, took four years to finish.

The Photographer is an unusual graphic novel that combines photos and illustrations to tell the story of a photojournalist's harrowing trip to Afghanistan with a medical team from Doctors Without Borders.

Intended as a productive if imperfect compromise, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" has resulted in thousands of discharges — many of them involving servicemembers with critical skills. Historian Nathaniel Frank says it's time the ban was ended.

Kotek, a former state House speaker, beat out Republican Christine Drazan, a former state lawmaker. The race was uncomfortably close for Democrats, who've held the governor's mansion for four decades.

On Christmas Day, an act of sabotage cut off power for thousands of people near Tacoma, Wash. Federal agents have charged two men with conspiracy, saying they used the outage to rob a local business.

NPR's Emily Feng plays the puzzle with Weekend Edition puzzle master Will Shortz and this week's puzzle winner Jim Roepke of Raphine, Virginia

Considered one of the most damaging snails in the world, the U.S. has worked spent over a $1 million over decades to eradicate them.

The Reverend Doctor talks with us about the intersection between faith and justice.