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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.

Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick (guh-RELL-ick) said today that "a serious set of problems" has been found in the FBI crime laboratory, but she said it was too soon to say whether remedial steps would prevent harm to a limited number of prosecutions. NPR has obtained copies of summaries of interviews conducted by the Justice Department involving the Oklahoma City bombing investigation. One of the problems reported was that the crime scene may have been compromised when the memorial service for victims of that bombing was allowed to take place on the site before all the evidence had been gathered. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports.

The Air Force is blaming its commanders and crew, along with poor airport design, for the plane crash that killed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 other people in April. The accident report released today says commanders did not give Air Force crews operating in former communist countries the right training to deal with poor safety conditions at some of those airports. The Brown party was trying to land at Dubrovnik, Croatia, when the plane crashed, killing everyone on board. NPR's Martha Raddatz reports the analysis also blames the pilots for some of their decisions.

According to the the LA County Coroner's report, the cause was inhalation and thermal injuries. The actor died on Sunday, after she crashed her car earlier this month.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Washington Post reporter Dan Diamond about the Trump Administration's directive to Department of Health and Human Services agencies to pause all external communications.

Two sisters ran for seats on western Michigan's county board, but not against each other. And The Fresno Bee reports twin sisters gave birth within two hours of each other