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NPR's Brian Naylor reports that a defamation lawsuit against Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy has been dismissed. Liddy's victory in court may lend some credence to revisionist theories of the 1972 Watergate break-in.

The mauling death of a 33-year-old woman in San Francisco by a 120-pound dog has raised many questions about the owners -- two prison inmates with alleged ties to a white supremacist group, and an illegal dog breeding scheme. Jay Field reports from San Francisco.

Craig Fahle of member station WDET reports on a small Michigan town -- Hamtramck -- that's literally surrounded by the city of Detroit. Hamtramck is trying to free itself from state financial control. Before it can, it must reconcile the old and the new, as the Polish old-timers fight revitalization efforts that cater to a new kind of resident.

Secretaries of state from around the U.S. have been meeting in Washington, D.C., to discuss election reform. NPR's Pam Fessler reports on the move to improve the election process in the hopes of avoiding another Florida situation.

Ivan Watson reports that residents of Gueckedou, Guinea, are now returning to their homes after Guinean government troops recaptured the city from rebels this week. The town is situated along one of the most dangerous borders in Africa, and fighting in the area continues.

NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports the Bush Administration made it clear today that it intends to comply with the decision of a NAFTA arbitration panel on cross-border trucking. In a unanimous decision, the panel held that the U.S. ban on Mexican trucks was a violation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

The latest computers to roll off the assembly line will be obsolete within a year. That's a frustrating fact for most consumers, but there are some people who revel in the outmoded machines that make most techies cringe. They collected last weekend at the Vintage Computer Festival in San Jose, California. Jeff Hoffman reports.

Forty years after President Kennedy's speech at the University of Michigan campus where he put forth his idea for a Peace Corp, hundreds of former volunteers will gather for a reunion in Ann Arbor. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is pushing ahead with talks to lure hard-line Israeli politician Ariel Sharon into a national emergency government. The Israeli public seems behind the idea as a way to bring stability back into Israeli life, but the union could spell the end of the peace process.

NPR's John Nielsen reports the search for shuttle wreckage strewn over a rough section of Texas is being made easier by the new mapping techniques used by scholars, and the by the latest satellite tracking systems in the hands of local fishermen.