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on the damage that flooding has done to parts of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Some residents say overdevelopment has contributed to the problem.

beat the Pittsburgh Steelers yesterday 27-17, winning their third Super Bowl in four years.

are limiting the number of new homeowner policies they write in coastal communities because of recent hurricane-related losses.

the grandson of Mexican immigrants, has become the first Hispanic to hold the powerful post of California Assembly speaker.

about possible new finds by divers searching for wreckage of TWA flight 800.

A new study finds that for nearly 4 million poor people with severe disabilities, a key U.S. government subsidy has not kept pace with rising rents -- forcing many into sub-standard housing. NPR's Joseph Shapiro reports.

Some Iraqis are trying to find their own place in a new government, whether the United States approves or not. In the city of Kut southeast of Baghdad, a local tribal leader has occupied city hall in defiance of U-S Marines. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

Washington Post reporter Peter Baker is a journalist who co-wrote the story breaking the news about Monica Lewinsky. He's just written a book about that episode of the Clinton presidency, called The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton. He writes that for all the titillation about thongs and cigars, the story was not so much about sex as it was about power.

NPR reporters Melissa Block in New York, Tovia Smith in oston, and WBGO's Steve Inskeep in Newark, N.J., share anecdotes from covering he "Blizzard of '96" -- one of the worst East Coast winter storms on record. owever, NPR's Mark Roberts is taking advantage of the unusually warm weather in enver to work on his suntan.

New figures from the 2000 Census show Hispanics now make up 13 percent of the United States' population. The new data suggests Hispanics may have overtaken blacks as the largest minority population, but critics say it depends on how the numbers are tallied. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports.