Minnesota Public Radio Stories

• Tax attorney joins Minnesota Senate field
  A tax attorney with a ubiquitous Minnesota name stepped Tuesday into a U.S. Senate field that already features two big-name Democratic candidates.4:50 p.m.
• U of M ready to end reciprocity deal with Wisconsin
  The University of Minnesota is ready to end its tuition reciprocity agreement with Wisconsin starting with freshmen who enter in the fall of 2008 unless Wisconsin agrees to restructure the 40-year-old pact, school officials warned Monday.4:54 p.m.
• High water in Fargo
  Crews in Fargo are building a temporary levee downtown against rising waters. They're also watching the next storm system moving in with the promise of more rain.5:20 p.m.
• Hutchinson Technology cutting 500 jobs to save money
  The job cuts, in Hutchinson and Plymouth, Minnesota, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota, are expected to be finished by the end of this month.5:23 p.m.
• Hmong community reacts with alarm to charges against Vang Pao
  Former Minnesota U.S. Attorney Tom Heffelfinger says he's working with members of the Hmong community as they begin to form a legal team for Gen. Vang Pao. The former Laotian leader has been charged with plotting the overthrow of the communist government in Laos.5:50 p.m.
• St. Paul Pioneer Press names Gilmore as new publisher
  Guy Gilmore, 52, has been the newspaper's vice president for circulation since 2005 and has worked as a circulation executive at the Baltimore Sun, the Portland Oregonian, and Nashville Tennessean & Banner.5:54 p.m.
• Hundreds turn out for Mancini funeral
  For decades, Nick Mancini's restaurant has been a favored spot for politicians and the working people of St. Paul.6:25 p.m.

National Public Radio Stories

• Father and Daughter, and Movies
  When the 9-year-old daughter of The Boston Globe's film critic wanted to have a Katharine Hepburn birthday party — complete with a screening — he tried to talk her out of it. She won the argument.
• A Year's Montage of SoundClips
  On the first anniversary of our series, SoundClips, we present — for those who may have missed any of them or all of them — a compilation of all of the sounds from the series in alphabetical order.
• London 2012 Blocks Out the Olympics Logo
  The design of the logo for the 2012 Olympic Games is causing a fuss in Britain. The London organizing committee's newly unveiled design has met a storm of criticism. Rather than follow the traditional path of designs from recent host cities, the London organizers have gone for a jagged design described as powerful and modern.
• Strained Russian Relations Greet Bush in Europe
  In Europe, President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin have exchanged strong words over a proposed American anti-missile defense system to be located in Eastern Europe. Gottemoeller says Russia strongly opposes the missile shield, and the Russian-American relationship is more tense now than it has been in many years.
• Seale Civil Rights Murder Trial Begins, 43 Years On
  Opening statements are heard in the case of James Ford Seale, who has pleaded not guilty to federal kidnapping and conspiracy charges in connection with the 1964 murders of two black teenagers who were hitchhiking in rural Mississippi. The trial is expected to take two weeks.
• Airport Fuel Pipeline Evaluated After Arrests
  A fourth suspect in an alleged plot to bomb fuel facilities at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York surrendered Tuesday in Trinidad. Experts say safeguards are in place to prevent a full pipeline explosion, but even taking out a portion of the pipeline would shut down the airport.
• Congress to Hold Hearings on TB Patient Speaker
  Two congressional committees will have hearings Wednesday on federal officials' handling of a patient with a rare and deadly form of tuberculosis. The alert system failed to prevent Atlanta attorney Andrew Speaker from leaving and re-entering the country via crowded trans-Atlantic airliners.
• Lewis Libby Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison
  Former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney Lewis Libby is sentenced for his federal convictions on charges of lying to a grand jury and FBI investigators regarding his role in the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson's CIA identity. Libby is sentenced to 30 months in prison and a fine of $250,000.
• Federal Appeals Court Overrules FCC on Indecency
  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second District overturned the Federal Communications Commission's ruling that several broadcasts, including the Billboard Music Awards in 2002 and 2003, were indecent. Specifically, it ruled that the FCC policy on "fleeting expletives" was arbitrary and randomly enforced. It sent the rule back to the commission for its consideration.
• Silverman: NBC's New Boss, Not Like the Old Boss
  Ben Silverman was a hot ticket as a producer with shows like The Office, Ugly Betty, The Biggest Loser and The Tudors. Now, he's being tasked with saving the NBC network and finding a new network model.
• Flight Delays in Early 2007 Are Worst in 12 Years
  Flights on U.S.-based air carriers suffered more delays in the first four months of 2007 than in any year since the government began tracking the numbers in 1995. Rebecca Roberts talks with David Field, U.S. Editor of Airline Business Magazine, who is at the International Air Transport Association conference in Vancouver.
• Guantanamo Trials Likely to Resume After Change
  The dismissal of charges against two Guantanamo detainees is forcing the government to re-evaluate how military tribunals work. Legal scholar Scott Silliman says the ruling results from a technicality: the difference between "enemy combatants" and "unlawful enemy combatants."
• Recalling the Six Day War, and a Tentative Peace
  Forty years ago today, Israel began a short war with its Arab neighbors. It lasted six days — and it expanded the territory controlled by the Jewish state. Over 40 years, we've learned much about what really occurred before, during, and after the fighting. Producer John McDonough has prepared a story that recounts how the events of 1967 were reported.
• Missing Soldier's Loved Ones Hold On to Hope
  Family and friends of captured U.S. soldier Alex Jimenez are holding on to their hopes that he will be found alive, even though al-Qaida linked militants have released a videotape claiming the soldier has been killed. Jimenez has been missing since May 12, when his Humvee was ambushed.
• Shiite Police Blamed for Planting Roadside Bombs
  A U.S. military convoy was bombed near an Iraqi police post, shocking but not injuring American servicemen. The Americans detained three policemen suspected in the bombing, and according to eyewitnesses, "beat them pretty badly."

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