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David Simon, creator and executive producer of HBO's series The Wire, joins Fresh Air to talk about his career and the genesis of the show. Simon writes many of the episodes — and some story lines come from his former job as a police reporter for the Baltimore Sun.

The Kentucky Coal Museum depicts "the lives that revolve around the coal industry." But WYMT reports they now get their power from solar panels, because it's cheaper.

Although the U.S. Congress recently passed a law banning female circumcisions in this country, doctors at a public hospital in Seattle are considering offering a "symbolic nick" -- a modified form of the procedure to Somali families who've asked to have their daughters circumcised. KPLU reporter Christine Arrasmith says the hospital wants to deter the new immigrants from having the more radical surgery performed, but critics say the compromise implies tolerance of a practice that should be stopped.

A new report shows most Kentucky graduates went to college but didn’t finish a degree seven years after they left high school. Kentucky Center For…

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday there are early signs of slowing the exponential growth in cases as the state broke a record last week for the most…

The helicopter was carrying provincial government officials when it went down on Wednesday. The Taliban have claimed responsibility, according to multiple reports.

Mark your calendars for Thursday, June 7th to hear stories from behind the scenes of one of the most eventful news cycles in recent history. WKMS and…

- Daniel speaks with reporter Laurie Neff about today's extraordinary diplomatic events in the Middle East. Neff says the day began with special U.S. Middle East envoy Dennis Ross announcing that he was abandoning his efforts to strike a deal between Israelis and Palestinians over an Israeli withdrawal from Hebron. Then Jordanian King Hussein unexpectedly jumped into the picture, flying to Gaza to meet PLO leader Yasir Arafat and then to Tel Aviv, where he's meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ross, who postponed his departure. Now, after weeks of rollercoaster diplomacy, Neff reports there's cautious talk of a breakthrough that also will address the thorny issue of a timetable for further Israeli withdrawals from the West Bank.

The scientist leading the U.S. search for evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was back on Capitol Hill Friday, talking to key leaders about his findings. David Kay said too much had been made of the failure to find actual weapons, and that another six months might tell a different story. But critics continued to stress that when Congress voted to support the war a year ago, they were responding to reports of weapons that were ready to be used against the United States or Iraq's neighbors. NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports.

The CIA has fired an employee for leaking classified intelligence to the media. Former agency officials say the information concerned alleged secret prisons in Eastern Europe. The spy agency refused to reveal the name of the person. But reports from the Associated Press identify CIA veteran Mary McCarthy.