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NPR'S Eric Westervelt reports on a series of proposals announced today aimed at cleaning up one of the nation's largest police forces... one rocked by an on-going Federal corruption probe.

- Nearly 125 years after the Great Fire of Chicago, the city's fire department still depends on an antiquated teletype machine to dispatch its fire trucks. NPR's Edward Lifson reports on the machine's imminent demise.

NPR'S John Ydstie reports on the death of William Vickrey, the Canadian-born economist who died from a heart attack three days after he won a shared Nobel Prize for economics.

The Supreme Court today struck down sections of the 1992 Cable Act that restricted indecent programs on certain cable channels. But it upheld another provision that allowed individual cable companies to refuse to air such programs. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.

Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports on budget cuts and their effect on City University of New York, once commonly called the poor man's Harvard. Big cuts and rising tuition have made it more difficult for the mostly working-class student body.

- President Clinton spoke at a press conference today at the end of the G-7 summit. He addressed many international issues including the Russian elections and the Saudi truck bombing. He also deflected criticism about the FBI files controversy. Mara Liasson reports.

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports from Pensacola, Florida on esterday's accident aboard a Delta airlines flight. While taxiing down the unway, an engine caught fire and exploded, sending shrapnel through the uselage and killing 2 people.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports on the start of today's excavation of everal mass graves in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica (shreh-breh-NEET-sah) Last ear, Serbs allegedly massacred thousands of the town's mostly Muslim residents

NPR's Laura Ziegler reports on concerns among U.S. farmers that cuts in foreign food aid will deprive them of markets in the future. cut have been hurt by are struggling to the impact of federal cuts in foreign food aid are having on U.S. farmers.

NPR's David Molpus reports on "The Fatherhood roject", a research and consulting organization based in New York, designed to elp businesses become more sensitized to the problems and issues facing fathers n the workplace.