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National Transportation Safety Board investigators are now on the scene of yesterday's plane crash in Monroe, Michigan. Officials are recovering the bodies of the 29 people killed when the commuter plane crashed in a snowstorm. Roger Adams of member station WDET reports from the scene.

Official Washington has been practically silent this week...with Congress out and government workers taking vacations. About the only sound in the city is the sound of construction for the inauguration festivities Barbara Bradley reports.

In Atlanta, a special service was held honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, whose birthday is commemorated today. At the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King once preached, speakers called for community service and justice. Joshua Levs of member station WABE reports.

NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports that Boeing shares jumped higher today after a decision, announced yesterday, to scrap plans for a new, stretch version of the 747. Industry analysts speculate the move could save Boeing $2 billion in research and development costs over the next five years.

NPR's Peter Overby reports on some of the possible reasons the Democratic National Committee got into its current predicament. The DNC has had to return over 1.5 million dollars in improper contributions. Part of the problem is that the DNC had stopped screening its donors.

US Middle East envoy Dennis Ross is throwing in the towel and returning home after trying for weeks to nail down an agreement between Palestinians and Israelis over Israeli withdrawl from the West Bank town Hebron. Laurie Neff reports from Jerusalem.

From Connecticut, Veta Chrisy reports that thousands of people remain without power throughout New England, following a weekend snowstorm that swept through the region and killed four people.

NPR's David Baron reports that generations of astrophysicists may have underestimated the size and age of the universe. At a news conference in London today, scientists presented new data from the European space observatory showing that the estimates may have been off by more than 10 percent.

Publix supermarket chain has agreed to pay more than 81 million dollars to settle a class action sex discrimination suit. It's one of the largest settlements of its kind. Tom Parkinson from member station W-U-S-F in Tampa, Florida reports.

There's been a rash of poisonings in California....the cause? Mushrooms. The poisonous fungi were responsible for the death of Sam Sebastiani, from the wine-making family. Mushroom experts say the deadly variety are even hard for experts to distinguish from edible wild mushrooms. Matt Binder (BYN-durr) reports.