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By Cash/GarnerMurray, KY – The Afternoon Stock Report on November 3, 2008.

For more than a century, collectors and developers in Florida have stripped the state of its native orchids. Now, a team of scientists is working to reintroduce the plants to the swamps where they once flourished.

Last winter in Wyoming was so harsh that tens of thousands of deer and antelope perished. This season, thousands of hunters are voluntarily sitting out to give the herds time to recover.

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Here, correspondent Kirk Siegler and producer Liz Baker share how they reported on disastrous wildfires in Southern California for this week's Reporter's Notebook.

Reports are already in about the progress of the war in Iraq and managing after the U.S. leaves. One report is from retired Marine Gen. James Jones who Congress asked to assess Iraq's national police force. His report describes an overly sectarian force.

By Cash/GarnerMurray, KY – The Afternoon Stock Report on Oct. 31, 2008 from the regional office of Wachovia Securities in Paducah.

Details of the Iraq Study Group's final report have been leaked to The New York Times. The report does not advocate a firm timetable for withdrawal, but does call for phased pullback of American troops now in Iraq.

to Gulf War Syndrome...an assortment of medical symptoms reported among veterans of the Persian Gulf War. A Presidential advisory committee reported yesterday that it found no single cause for the ailments, such as joint pain, memory lapses, fatigue, and depression.

A new Department of Defense report criticizes the way the military handles internal cases of sexual assault. A task force examined how the military cares for sexual assault victims, and investigated cases in which troops are accused of attacking their colleagues. The report calls for a wide range of improvements including rape prevention, criminal investigation and victim counseling. NPR's John Burnett reports.

A staff report delivered to the bipartisan commission investigating the Sept. 11 terror attacks finds "no credible evidence" that Saddam Hussein cooperated with al Qaeda in those attacks. The staff report said Osama bin Laden contacted the Iraqi government about gaining support from that country but had been rebuffed. NPR's Larry Abramson reports.