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Last Friday, during continuing coverage of the attempted coup in Turkey, we mistakenly attributed a tweet from a parody Twitter account to GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.

The Kentucky Public Service Commission will conduct public hearings in Paducah, Henderson and Owensboro over a proposed rate hike for electric customers…

McCracken County government offices will have a few more means to achieve better checks and balances thanks to the findings of the County Clerk's Office…

When Lonia Haeger's camper got trapped in ice in northern Norway, she created a Tinder account and got a match. Stian Lauluten came to the rescue with a bulldozer and helped free the camper.

The Multnomah County sheriff's office got a call that a big cat with spots was loose. The zoo said all cheetahs were accounted for. Deputies found a large stuffed animal, a cheetah, sitting on a log.

Commentator Kristine Holmgren says that she is concerned about the effect that the new welfare reform bill will have on the poor families at her church and around the country. She says the bill's supporters, who assume that private charities will increase services to offset welfare cuts, haven't taken into account one important factor. After 10 years of working with the poor, Holmgren says, she has learned that the poor are proud -- maybe too proud to ask for help from people in their communities, whom they have to face every day.

2: From Australia, writer and adventurer ROBYN DAVIDSON. Her book "Tracks" (paperback, Vintage) was the account of her 1,700 mile journey across Australia with four camels and a dog. It won the 1980 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. Her next adventure was a trip across the Indian desert with nomads, which she chronicled in the new book "Desert Places." (Viking). (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES AFTER THE 1:00 FL

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is probing the alleged unprovoked killings of 24 civilians last November by U.S. Marines in the insurgent hotbed of Haditha, Iraq. According to news accounts, the killings were in retaliation for the death of Marine Lance Cpl. Miguel Terrazas, Jr.

In April, New York Times reporter Dexter Filkins will receive the George Polk Award for War Reporting for "his riveting, first-hand account of an eight-day attack on Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah." We talk with him about the rebuilding country and its recent elections.

A group of anesthesiologists discusses reports that patients who are put into a deeper sleep during surgery are more likely to die within weeks, or months. Experts in the field say that while people over 65 may be at a greater risk, tens of thousands of deaths may be preventable by taking the findings into account. NPR's Richard Knox reports.