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We look at the biggest stories in 2024 from local elections to the collapse of the Key Bridge.

Fresh Air TV critic David Bianculli reviews HBO's new series John Adams, produced by Tom Hanks.

John Mills is serving seven to nine years in North Carolina for armed robbery. At age 15, John held up his first convenience store with a b-b gun. Then he graduated to real guns. In the first of a series of Prison Diaries, produced by Joe Richman, Mills tells about his life behind bars. His mother used to visit often, but lives far away and comes less and less. On the walls of his cell are all the birthday cards he's received. John sounds warm and sensitive, except when he talks about the thrill of putting a gun to someone's head and seeing the fear in their eyes.

As part of our ongoing series on stump speeches, we broadcast an excerpt of Democratic Vice Presidential contender John Edwards speaking in Kansas City, Mo.

JOHN C. REILLY CONTINUED.Guest film critic HENRY SHEEHAN reviews the new film –Girl on the Bridge.—12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next archive edition of fresh air, actor JOHN C. REILLY. Hes currently starring in –The Perfect Storm.— He also starred in –Magnolia,— which was just released on video. Join us for the next fresh air.

JOHN GRISHAM cont'd.Rock Critic KEN TUCKER reviews "Earthling" the new album by David Bowie. 12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next Fresh Air. . .JOHN GRISHAM. . . the popular writer of legal thrillers has a new novel, "The Partner." He'll talk with Terry Gross about his work and about the law cases that inspired him to write. That and more coming up on today's Fresh Air.

2:Writer JOHN UPDIKE on Golf. America's pre-eminent writer has written forty-seven books, including 17 novels.The Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, poet, and essayist has now turned his attention to his other passion Golf in "Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf by John Updike." It is published by Knopf. His most recent novel was "In the Beauty of the Lilies." (Knopf 1996).

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Dianne Reeves, whose song "Endangered Species" was sung by Sheryl Lee Ralph when she accepted an Emmy for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy.

Parish Priest JOHN MCNAMEE. For twenty five years he's lived and worked the poorer neighborhoods of Philadelphia. His book, "Diary of a City Priest" (Sheed & Ward) documents his struggle to keep faith, when surrounded by poverty and despair.

NPR's Meredith Ochs reviews New Orleans pianist Dr. John's new CD N'awlinz: Dis, Dat or D'udda. She says the disc brings together the many musical traditions that thrive in the Crescent City.

Comedian and author John Leguizamo talks about his new book, Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends and what it's like to be a Latino in Hollywood.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with senator and presidential candidate John Kerry about Iraq and diplomacy, the federal budget deficit, and U.S. immigration policy. The interview will be followed in coming weeks by chats with other presidential contenders.

Abolitionist “Captain” John Brown made quite an impression on Frederick Douglass when they first met, but, while bound by the same passion, the two men…

We remember the bluegrass musician and composer with his son Jamie Campbell and author Andrew Vaughan.

He reviews the new film The Hours.

Elton John won an Emmy Monday night, securing him a spot in the small group of people who have an EGOT — Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony.

NPR's Michele Norris talks with Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, who is seeking the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Edwards discuss the economy, the situation in Iraq and education policy in the latest installment in a weekly series of candidate interviews.

John Lasseter, chief creative executive of Pixar, Inc, talks about the animation company's new feature film, Cars. Lasseter is a founding member of Pixar and served as director and animator of the feature films Toy Story, its sequel and A Bug's Life.

British actor John Hurt, who had memorable roles in The Elephant Man and Alien has died at 77.

2: Film Director JOHN DAHL. His new film is a thriller called "Red Rock West." It takes place in a tough little town in Wyoming over a forty-eight hour period. It has a film noir feeling and plot that twists and turns. It stars Nicholas Cage, Dennis Hopper, Lara Flynn Boyle and J.T. Walsh.