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  • Gene Miller spent 48 years as a reporter and editor at the Miami Herald. He died this past week. Dave Marcus worked as a reporter for Miller and recalls the newsroom presence of a martini-drinking man with a fondness for colorful bow ties.
  • The Justice Department is set to release a report that condemns the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department for its discriminatory practices.
  • A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there continues to be issues with Legionnaire's disease at an Illinois Veterans Home…
  • What do Tuesday's elections in Georgia and Mississippi signal about the future of Republicans and Democrats nationally? NPR asks Matthew Klein of Cook Political Report.
  • A newly unsealed report suggests energy companies deliberately manipulated California's electricity market. The report details conversations between the Williams Cos. and AES Corp., in which employees talk about extending power plant outages to profit from higher prices. Hear NPR's Scott Horsley.
  • The U.S. Geological Survey reports the tremor's magnitude was 6.9 and was centered very deep in the earth.
  • The pharmaceutical industry was one of the biggest contributors to Republican campaign coffers for the 2002 midterm elections, a new report shows. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, drug makers gave $14 million to Republicans, and just $5 million to Democrats. NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports.
  • David Greene speaks with NPR's Don Gonyea, Scott Horsley and Brian Naylor about The Des Moines Register's Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa. The three reporters are riding in the event, also known as RAGBRAI, to explore the Iowa they didn't see on the presidential campaign trail.
  • American reporter Jill Carroll is released unharmed in Iraq, three months after she was kidnapped. "I was treated well, but I don't know why I was kidnapped," Carroll said in an interview on Baghdad television. Her captors had demanded that female detainees be freed or Carroll would be killed.
  • For nearly eight years, married journalists Jennifer Griffin and Greg Myre covered the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. During that time, their life was about reporting on street violence, suicide bombings — and starting a family.
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