Minnesota Public Radio Stories

• Duluth negotiating with Petters to fill vacant airbase
  The parent company of Minnesota's Sun Country Airlines may be the new tenant for the former Northwest Airlines maintenance base in Duluth. The deal could reactivate a multimillion dollar facility that's been empty for two years.5:20 p.m.
• State health commissioner defends decision to keep cancer death numbers secret
  Minnesota's commissioner of health is defending her decision to withhold information about deaths from a rare form of cancer.5:23 p.m.
• Fibrominn powers ahead with turkey litter
  When you flip on your lights now, you may be tapping into the region's newest source of electricity; a plant in Benson that's the first facility in the country to make power by burning turkey litter.5:50 p.m.
• As foreclosures mount, more people are considering bankruptcy
  Bankruptcy is a long shot. A lot of people are ending up in the double bind of foreclosure and bankruptcy.5:54 p.m.

National Public Radio Stories

• SUVs and the Politics of the Energy Bill
  The energy bill now before Congress focuses on decreasing consumption across various sectors. Among the proposals: eliminating the so-called "Hummer tax loophole" that allows small businesses to write off large luxury SUVs.
• Fuel Economy Proposal Meets Resistance in Detroit
  Proposed legislation would raise the requirement for Corporate Average Fuel Economy to 35 miles per gallon over 10 years. Automakers recently have said it's impossible for them to meet the fuel efficiency standards in the Senate energy bill.
• Soldiers Train for Battlefield in Sports Medicine Lab
  The Army is turning to sports medicine to try to reduce battlefield injuries. Fort Campbell, Ky., is beginning a new round of training to help soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division. It's billed as a "first of its kind" injury prevention laboratory.
• Four States Compete for New Underground Lab
  The National Science Foundation is about to designate a site for an underground lab to study neutrinos and other scientific subjects — from outer space to the Earth's inner core — that require severe darkness. Four states are in the running.
• China Works to Shutter Forced Labor Camps
  The son of a local Communist Party leader was implicated in forced labor in China's Shanxi and Henan Provinces, where impoverished people, including children, were abducted or lured to brick kilns, locked up and forced to work without pay.
• Dow Jones Draws New Suitor After Murdoch Bid
  Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion offer forced the family that controls Dow Dow Jones & Co. to look for alternatives. A joint bid in the works would put The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times and CNBC under one roof.
• Aid Flows to Abbas for New Palestinian Government
  The U.S. and European Union have pledged support for the new Palestinian government that excludes Hamas, and Israel looks ready to contribute as well. What will be the extent of the influx of aid, and how will it be used?
• Shaky U.S.-Sheikh Alliance Tempers Violence in Iraq
  Violence in Iraq's al-Anbar province has dropped dramatically, due in large part to friendly relations between coalition forces and local sheikhs who have allied with the U.S. to fight al-Qaida. But as tribal leaders who had fled the country return home, old rivalries are re-emerging.
• U.S. Lifts Embargo Against Palestinian Government
  The Bush administration announces that it will lift its economic and political embargo against the Palestinian government, as President Bush prepares to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to discuss how to deal with the Fatah-Hamas rivalry.
• Civil War Troops' Mini Emancipation Book on Display
  As the Emancipation Proclamation is celebrated in many parts of the U.S. on June 19, or "Juneteenth," a copy of the Miniature Emancipation Proclamation that was distributed to Union troops during the Civil War is on display in New York.
• U.S. Car Makers Warm to Parts of Energy Bill
  Detroit has not embraced the tougher mileage requirements proposed in the Senate energy bill, but some American automakers are embracing the mandate for more homegrown fuels, such as ethanol.
• Abu Ghraib Investigator Says He Was Forced to Retire
  Ret. Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who was the lead investigator of military personnel working at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, tells New Yorker magazine that he was forced into retirement because of his findings. Seymour Hersh, investigative reporter for the magazine, talks with Michele Norris about his interview with Taguba, who gave some details that were not made public before his comments were published this week in the magazine.
• Seizing Power from 'The Woman Warrior'
  Author Diana Abu-Jaber felt empowered by The Woman Warrior: "Hong Kingston's voice edges between poetry and barely controlled rage throughout this work. I found it to be at once compelling, alien and true."
• Must Free Elections Bring Violence?
  Many recent democratic elections in the Middle East have brought about intensified violence instead of peace, says Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr.
• An Outsider's Look Inside Amish Community
  Writer Joe Mackall gained unprecedented access to one of the most conservative Amish communities through his neighbor Samuel. In his new book, Plain Secrets, Mackall chronicles the tightly knit society of Ohio's Swartzentruber Amish.

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