Minnesota Public Radio Stories

• Study: Mental health courts showing positive results
  A study of four criminal mental health courts in the U.S., including one in Hennepin County, shows some promising results, according to New York-based policy research group.4:49 p.m.
• Francis Ford Coppola makes his own rules
  Having made classics like "Apocalypse Now" and the Godfather movies, director Francis Ford Coppola is now able make pretty much any movie what he wants, which is just what he is doing.4:53 p.m.
• State shuts down interim gang strike force
  State officials shut down the Metro Gang Strike Force today, just a week after they kick-started the embattled gang unit, hoping to overcome a string of scandals.5:19 p.m.
• Rep. Ellison says U.S. trying to ensure safe return of missing Somalis
  Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison said the U.S. government is trying to ensure the safe return of some of the young Somali-American men believed to be fighting with a terrorist group in their homeland.5:24 p.m.
• Family, friends mourn Minn. Guard members killed in Iraq
  Family and friends are mourning the deaths of three Minnesota National Guard soldiers who were killed Thursday night at their military base near Basra in Southern Iraq.5:50 p.m.

National Public Radio Stories

• Walter Cronkite, The Nation's Narrator, Dies At 92
  The longtime CBS Evening News anchor, once known as "the most trusted man in America," has died. Cronkite offered a nightly account of the world's tragedies and triumphs over the course of a generation, from the Kennedy assassination to the Vietnam War to the walk on the moon and Watergate.
• Small-Business Support Sought On Health Care
  Conscious of the impact health care policy changes will have on small business owners, both supporters and opponents of various plans to overhaul the health care system are now trying to paint themselves as champions of mom and pop entrepreneurs.
• In Iraq, Kurdish-Arab Tensions Simmer
  Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will be in Washington next week. His visit comes as the president of the Iraqi Kurdish region says ethnic tension is driving Iraq's Kurds and the central government in Baghdad dangerously close to confrontation.
• In Calif., A Rare Look At Humboldt Squid
  It's not often you get to see a giant sea creature up close and personal. But the arrival of swarms of giant Humboldt squid in southern California has given scuba divers a rare treat. Nigella Hillgarth, executive director of the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, offers her insight.
• Week In Politics Reviewed
  Judge Sonia Sotomayor's Senate confirmation hearings, President Obama's newly announced community college initiative and the debate over health care dominated the week in politics. E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and the Brookings Institutions, and David Brooks of The New York Times offer their insight.
• Citibank, BofA Results May Not Point To Recovery
  Bank of America and Citibank posted bigger-than-expected profits for the second quarter, raising hopes the financial crisis has eased. But the strong-looking results released Friday include gains from accounting changes and other factors, and don't necessarily show a big improvement in the banks' underlying financial health.
• Woods Out Of British Open
  This year's British Open is full of surprises: Two Americans are tied for the lead — and neither of them is Tiger Woods. The world's No. 1 didn't make the cut in Scotland. Lawrence Donegan, the golf correspondent for The Guardian and author of Four Iron in the Soul, has the latest.
• Sen. Sessions Still Troubled By Sotomayor
  Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, says some of the Supreme Court nominee's comments do not reflect the classical American legal view and that he's worried about her impartiality.
• Insurance Broker Critical Of Democratic Plan
  The Democratic plan to overhaul health care would require companies to provide health care to all their workers or face a penalty. Insurance broker Lisa Jolles of Jolles Insurance worries about what the bill will do to her business and many of the clients she serves.
• In New Novel, Phillips Subtly Tackles Big Themes
  Novelist Arthur Phillips' new book The Song is You is about one of the great obsessions in contemporary American literature. Reviewer Alan Cheuse says Phillips is a subtle writer who deals quietly with big themes such as illusions versus reality.
• Former U.S. Official On Indonesia Bombings
  Suicide bombers killed eight people and wounded more than 50 at two American luxury hotels Friday in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. James Clad, former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense for South and Southeast Asia, says Western counterterrorism experts had been giving the Indonesians high marks up to now.
• Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Police Clash In Jerusalem
  Officials are hoping that a compromise in a case involving an ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman suspected of child abuse will lower tensions between the city and ultra-Orthodox demonstrators. Days of protests have left dozens of police injured and scores of protesters in custody.
• Military Chefs Battle On Pentagon's Cooking Show
  Every week, you can catch some of the military's best chefs on The Grill Sergeants, the Pentagon Channel's cooking show. Brad Turner, the original "Grill Sergeant," is shooting new episodes focused on cuisine from different countries.
• Summer At The Movies And The Livin' Ain't Easy
  It's only July, and already the summer movie season seems to be cooling off. Movie industry reporter John Horn says that audience word-of-mouth may be one reason for sagging ticket sales.
• Photographer Shulman Had An Eye For The Modern
  Julius Shulman's images cast modern architecture in a vivid light, including his iconic "Case Study House No. 22," a nighttime portrait of a modern glass house jutting out from a cliff over the Los Angeles skyline. He died Wednesday at 98, just two weeks after his last assignment.

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