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At a school for autistic children in China, a volunteer falls ill with SARS. When parents ignore a quarantine and take their children home, school director Tian Huiping is faced with a difficult decision: should she report them to authorities? NPR's Richard Harris reports.

The U.S. concluded another round of talks to end the war in Ukraine as the White House pressured Ukraine while exploring potential business opportunities with Russia amid a reported economic proposal.

The October ‘Open Jobs Report’ from the Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce shows there are nearly 5,300 vacant positions in a 10-county region of…

The Kentucky state Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that attempts to build accountability in counties that have jailers but no jails.Since the 1970s, 41…

Investigators went out to check on a report of a distressed donkey. Turns out it was a garden ornament. Scotland's STV News reports those kinds of calls are not that unusual.

Both Houses of Kentucky's General Assembly are backing legislation that would expand the scope of the state’s prescription reporting system. Proponents…

WKMS, Murray State’s NPR Station, has hired Rachel Collins to serve as the public radio station’s next News Director. Collins will lead local news content…

Noah talks with NPR's Joe Palca about NASA's announcement that it has found evidence that a primitive form of microscopic life may have existed on Mars more than three billion years ago. -b- 3. CHECHNYA -- NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow that President Boris Yeltsin is back in the Kremlin following his post-election stay at the health spa. His return was greeted by the problem that has plagued him and Russia for a year-and-a-half: Chechnya. Chechen fighters have captured part of the capital, Grozny (GROHZ-nee). Russian troops are reporting heavy casualties. Chechnya is only one of may problems facing Yeltsin as he prepares for his inauguration this Friday.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports on how public service announcements since WWI have chronicled the evolution of the American psyche. The simplistic messages of decades past gave way to more complicated ideas and even imitators. But p-s-a's show no signs of disappearing and they're still hard to do well. (12:30) 2D 15. ETHICS AND MEANING - There was a summit in Washington this week to discuss the politics of meaning, a new political movement offering progressives/liberals a way to 'reclaim' the family values issue which has been monopolized by the right. They held a Summit on Ethics and Meaning and proposed a "Covenant with American Families", their answer to the Christian Coalition's Contract with American Families. Lynn Neary reports.

NPR's Ann Garrels reports from Moscow that Russian President Boris Yeltsin...along with President Clinton and the other leaders of the so-called group of seven industrial nations...wrapped up a summit in Moscow today. The meeting was devoted to nuclear safety issues...such as reducing the risk of smuggling nuclear weapons-grade materials. The leaders pronounced themselves satisfied with the results of their talks and issued a joint declaration outlining steps to enhance the safety of the world. Among those was agreement to push for a comprehensive test ban treaty by this fall. But their efforts today seemed primarily directed at enhancing Yeltsin's standing in advance of Russia's June presidential elections. NPR's Ann Garrels reports from Moscow.