Minnesota Public Radio Stories

• Bill to legalize ticket scalping on its way to governor
  A push to repeal Minnesota's prohibition on ticket scalping overwhelmingly passed the state House Wednesday and now heads to Gov. Tim Pawlenty.5:20 p.m.
• Growing number of employees subject to non-compete agreements
  Non-compete agreements typically apply to top corporate executives, research scientists and super sales representatives. But an increasingly broad range of workers are bound by non-compete agreements.5:50 p.m.
• Supply misses demand for Section 8 housing
  For the first time in six years, the Metropolitan Council this week opened its waiting list for Section 8 housing. The response from people wanting a spot on that list was overwhelming.5:55 p.m.

National Public Radio Stories

• Congressional Leaders Visit White House for Talks
  The House of Representatives failed to override President Bush's veto of the war funding bill that included timetables for beginning a U.S. troop withdrawal. Within an hour, President Bush sat down with leaders of both parties in Congress. All parties said they wanted to compromise, but none offered to give any ground.
• Ponderosa Stomp Festival Returns to New Orleans
  Last year, Ira Padnos' Ponderosa Stomp music festival was displaced to Memphis by Hurricane Katrina. Now it's back in New Orleans, with scheduled performances by Roky Erikson, Dale Hawkins, Little Jimmy Scott and others.
• Fired U.S. Prosecutors Slam Former Bosses
  The U.S. attorneys fired by the Justice Department last year describe their former leaders at Justice and the White House as "selfish," "self-serving" and "inept" in written testimony to the House Judiciary Committee.
• Bush Welcomes Colombia's Uribe to White House
  Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe was in Washington on Wednesday to make the case for U.S. collaboration on trade and the fight against drug trafficking. President Bush supports Uribe's effort to persuade U.S. lawmakers to approve more military and anti-narcotics aid and back a trade deal.
• U.S. Military Uses YouTube to Get Its Story Out
  The U.S. military has recently begun posting videos of troops operating in Iraq on the video-sharing Web site YouTube. The military says the videos give them a chance to show another side of the war in Iraq. Melissa Block talks to Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, with the Multi-National Forces in Iraq.
• Queen Elizabeth Prepares for Her American Visit
  Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will arrive in the United States on Thursday for a state visit that centers on the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Va. — the first permanent English settlement on American soil. The queen and her husband, Prince Philip, will attend the Kentucky Derby on Saturday.
• Washington State Sex-Offender Policy Criticized
  Washington's state Supreme Court has ruled that it's permissible to confine sex offenders even after they've served their sentences, as long as they receive mental health treatment that could lead to their release. A federal court had been monitoring the state's sex crime confinement program since the 1990s, when allegations arose that it was used to keep sex offenders off the streets indefinitely.
• Prehistoric Lifestyles: Building as Climate Allows
  Humans exist at the mercy of the environment, and when climate is welcoming and stable, humans can't resist taking the opportunity to move into some new real estate.
• Climate's Role in Human Evolution
  Millions of years ago, climate change shaped the evolution of the human species. Paleoanthropologist Rick Potts tells Robert Siegel that humans evolved as a response to an unstable environment. Potts is the director of the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.
• Spate of Suicide Bombings Threatens Iraq 'Surge'
  An Iraqi military spokesman has announced that heavy vehicles will be banned from crossing most of Baghdad's bridges. The ban appears to be designed to keep the bridges safe from suicide bombers; hundreds of suicide bombers have detonated their explosives in the four years of the Iraq war.
• In Beekeeping, Learning Curve Is Steep, Stinging
  Storyteller Bill Harley remembers his first foray into beekeeping. Harley is a storyteller, songwriter and author who is currently covered in baking soda to reduce swelling from bee stings in Seekonk, Mass. His latest recording of songs for families is I Wanna Play.
• France's Sarkozy, Royal Face Off in TV Debate
  The two remaining presidential candidates in France, Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal, have been holding a live televised debate. An audience of about 20 million people is expected to watch the only face-to-face debate between Royal and Sarkozy in the campaign.
• Iraq Conference May Let Rice Speak to Syria, Iran
  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Wednesday with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where a two-day conference on Iraq will begin Thursday. Both Syria and Iran will be represented at the conference.
• Veto Sustained, Bush Sits Down with Lawmakers
  With his veto of the Iraq spending bill sustained, President Bush sat down with bipartisan leaders from Congress to discuss a version of the funding measure that would not force withdrawal of U.S. troops on a timetable.
• There Are Bodies, and Then There Are Bodies
  The publicity for a touring display called Bodies: The Exhibition calls it "a phenomenal look at the phenomena we call the human body." Commentator Andrei Codrescu says it has left thousands of people depressed.

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