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After an investigation, it was discovered the lion was harmless. It turns out that it was a shopping bag tucked in a hedge. The bag had a realistic image of a lion's head on it.

As part of Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June, she appeared in a skit with an animated Paddington Bear. Both said they kept a marmalade sandwich on hand for emergencies.

Nearly half of Tennessee is in extreme drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

Lindsey Moon started as a talk show producer with Iowa Public Radio in May of 2014. She comes to IPR by way of Illinois Public Media, an NPR/PBS dual licensee in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and Wisconsin Public Radio where she’s worked as a producer and a general assignment reporter.

Mary Meehan brings 30 years of experience to the health beat at the Ohio Valley ReSource. Born in Kentucky, Mary is a proud alum of Western Kentucky University. (Go Tops!) A winner of dozens of state, regional and national journalism awards, Mary has covered exploding hotels, trashed trailers, epic ER wait times , Salem the Wonder Cat and one Santa convention in Branson, Mo. As a 2016 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, Mary studied digital journalism and the challenge of using public health policy to create sustainable social change. While generally refraining from pictures of her lunch, Mary has recently become addicted to Instagram where you can follow her @TheMaryMeehan. You can also check her out on Twitter @TheMaryMeehan and @OVReSRC.

Aaron Payne tackles the related issues of addiction recovery and economic recovery for the ReSource. He is a radio guy who first took to the airwaves at WMUL-FM, the campus voice for Marshall University, where he studied journalism. Aaron was the play-by-play voice of the West Virginia Miners baseball team (and he has the championship ring to prove it). At West Virginia Public Broadcasting he covered the state legislature and a chemical spill that left more than a quarter of a million people without potable water – including him. Aaron has also been a correspondent and director of news and programming for West Virginia MetroNews. In his spare time, Aaron enjoys listening to music, reading a good book, wandering in the outdoors and watching sports of all kinds.

Darius Rafieyan joined NPR in 2017 as the founding producer of The Indicator from Planet Money. He has produced stories about infectious disease outbreaks, the world's greatest air salesman, and the economics of Tinder.

Jasmine Garsd is NPR's immigration correspondent and the host of The Last Cup.

The invasive Asian carp are multiplying rapidly throughout the Mississippi and Ohio rivers and their tributaries. They're a scourge for native fish,…

Since 2006, White Nose Syndrome has been decimating bat populations east of the Mississippi. Last month, the disease was found in Breckinridge County,…