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Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz is here to take your questions. We’ll talk about the re-development of Sparrows Point and what kind of jobs…

Catholics have known for years that Pope John Paul II was destined for sainthood, but many aren't so familiar with John XXIII, who also will be canonized on Sunday.

This project was motivated by the climate crisis: "We are heading into a very, very dangerous place," Curtis says. The story explores the environmental decisions one generation makes for the next.

Over the last ten years, rip currents have killed more people in the United States than tornadoes or hurricanes. This year has already been particularly bad with 76 deaths reported through August.

Houston voters will choose their next mayor Saturday in a runoff election between Texas State Sen. John Whitmire and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to musician Rickie Lee Jones about her new memoir, Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour.

Spike Lee's kidnapping drama Highest 2 Lowest reimagines Akira Kurosawa's 1963 police procedural High and Low, relocating the action to New York City and starring Denzel Washington.

Baltimore County is juggling three different proposed calendars for the 2017-2018 school year. One of them would start school before Labor Day; two would…

Police in Tacoma, Washington, tie Washington, D.C.-area sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo to a February murder and a May synagogue shooting. that didn't injured anyone. Tom Banse reports.

Federal authorities transfer custody of Washington, D.C.-area sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo to Virginia. The two will face trial separately in state court in two different counties. NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty reports.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Abbot Elementary's Sheryl Lee Ralph about her lengthy career and finding a spotlight later in life.

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Accused sniper John Lee Malvo, 17, is ordered held without bail after a hearing Friday in Fairfax County, Va. A preliminary hearing was held earlier in the day in Prince William County, Va., for 41-year-old John Allen Muhammad, the other suspect in a string of killings in the Washington, D.C. area and the Deep South. NPR's Andrea Seabrook talks with NPR's John Ydtsie.

DAVID VON DREHLE (VON DRAY-Lee) has written a new book, "Among the Lowest of the Dead: the Culture of Death Row"(Times Books). VON DREHLE reawakens the capital punishment debate using historical and personal observations and accounts of death row inmates, victims survivors, and the people in charge of the executions. He says keeping people in prison is a bargain compared to the price of death row appeals and the fact that only 5% of death row executions actually occur. VON DREHLE is arts editor of the Washington Post

ST.JOHN BURIAL - On Sunday, the ashes of William Wallace Brown, Jr., a man who was once homeless, will be interred at St. John Episcopal Church near the White House. Brown became a member of the "church of the presidents" when former President George Bush invited him in to pray one Sunday morning.

Writer John Szwed is the author of the new biography, So What: The Life of Miles Davis about the influential jazz trumpeter. Szwed is the John M. Musser Professor of Anthropology, African American Studies, Music and American Studies at Yale University. He is also the author of the biography Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra, about another innovative musician.

We remember singer and songwriter John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas. Phillips died this morning in Los Angeles, from apparent heart failure. He was 65 years old.

Though John Snow is currently chairman of CSX, Washington is not foreign to him. Snow also served in the administration of President Gerald Ford and has been chairman of the Business Roundtable, which has long advocated a balanced federal budget. For some details about John W. Snow's background, Robert Siegel talks with Bob Lenzner, national editor of Forbes magazine.

Ever since John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo -- the suspects in the Washington-area sniper case -- were arrested last Thursday, government attorneys from Maryland, Virginia, Alabama, Washington, D.C., and Washington State have been competing with the Department of Justice over first crack at prosecuting them. NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr is concerned that this competition may be at the expense of the interests of justice. (2:45)