Minnesota Public Radio Stories

• Pawlenty says Essar concerns are resolved
  Gov. Tim Pawlenty says he will now support an Indian company's plan for an Iron Range steel mill. Pawlenty says Essar Global Ltd. has pledged to abide by U.S. economic sanctions against Iran.5:16 p.m.
• EPA halts arsenic soil tests in south Minneapolis
  A new EPA report says the site of a now-closed pesticide plant is not likely the sole source of the arsenic in soil.5:20 p.m.
• Newspapers struggle with online comments
  Many newspapers allow readers to comment on news stories online. Sometimes those comments can turn into intense and hurtful battles.5:44 p.m.
• To post, or not to post online comments
  How do news organizations make the decision to receive and publish comments about their stories online? MPR's Tom Crann talked to media analyst David Brauer about that topic.5:49 p.m.

National Public Radio Stories

• Seven Acquitted, 21 Found Guilty in Madrid Bombing
  Twenty-one people accused of involvement in the Madrid train bombings in 2004 were found guilty by a Spanish court on Wednesday. The al-Qaida inspired bombings killed 191 people and injured 1,700 on crowded commuter trains.
• FBI Continues Blackwater Shooting Investigation
  The FBI is investigating the weeks-old shooting incident in Iraq involving Blackwater contractors. Investigators have just returned from Iraq, where they interviewed witnesses who were at the Baghdad square when the shooting occurred. The agency has also transported to its crime lab in Virginia a number of shot-out Iraqi cars involved in the incident.
• Ghost Story: Coma Gives Injured Biker New Insight
  Storyteller Kevin Kling tells us of ghosts, but not the scary kind. After a motorcycle accident almost took his life six years ago, Kling recalls, his coma kept him in what he thinks of as two worlds.
• Digital Clocks 'Fall Back' Too Early
  Clocks on computers, VCRs and other reputedly "smart" devices left a lot of people confused when they automatically switched from Daylight Savings to standard time before they were supposed to. That's because Congress moved the changeover by a week.
• Pelosi: Lack of Progress in Iraq Eclipses Dems' Work
  In an interview with Robert Siegel, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi touts Democratic accomplishments in Congress in the past 10 months, but acknowledges that the lack of action on changing the course in Iraq has eclipsed everything they have achieved this year. She also discusses the ongoing negotiations with the White House on SCHIP.
• Southern Governors Convene to Solve Water Fight
  Severe drought is gripping Georgia, Alabama and Florida, and the states' governors, who meet Thursday in Washington, have been engaged in a rhetorical battle over how much water the Army Corps of Engineers should be releasing downstream from reservoirs in northern Georgia.
• Crisis-Prone Texas Juvenile Facilities Look to Reform
  The Texas Youth Commission is in what one national researcher has called "the most spectacular collapse of a juvenile corrections system in this country's history." Texas is looking to Missouri to try to reform its youth detention facilities.
• Where Do the Candidates Stand on Social Security?
  Social Security's financial problems are fodder for the 2008 presidential candidates. Sen. Barack Obama is trying to gain traction with a proposal to fix the retirement system and he's criticizing Hillary Clinton for not offering any specific solutions.
• Mukasey's Torture Comments Give Panel Pause
  Prospects for Senate confirmation of Michael Mukasey as attorney general seem to be suffering because he's not giving Democrats the answer they want on waterboarding. That's the interrogation technique that makes the subject feel like he's about to drown.
• Stayed Executions Revive Lethal Injection Debate
  The Supreme Court plan to consider in a case later this term whether a drug combination that's used in many state lethal-injection executions causes the prisoner so much pain that it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, which is banned by the Constitution.
• Philadelphia, Baltimore Battle Over Edgar Allan Poe
  Philadelphia and Baltimore are locked in a dispute over which city has the better claim to Edgar Allan Poe. The writer, novelist, editor and critic is buried in Baltimore, where he died 158 years ago, but he produced much of his best work while living in Philadelphia.
• Candidates Weigh Illegal Immigrants' Driving Rights
  Democrats vying for their party's presidential nomination disagreed at their debate Tuesday night about whether states should issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. The questions were what to do about people who are driving without having proved they are safe drivers, and whether states should give official identification to someone illegally in the U.S.
• Aviation Near-Mishaps More Common Than Thought
  Aircraft near collisions, runway interference, and other aviation safety problems occur more frequently than previously recognized. NASA, which compiles such information, had been withholding the data for fear of upsetting air travelers or hurting airline profits.
• Alaska's Lone Elephant Will Move to Warmer Home
  A long struggle over finding a warmer climate for Alaska's only elephant will be resolved Thursday when Maggie journeys south to her new home: the Performing Animal Welfare Society sanctuary in San Andreas, Calif. The 25-year-old African elephant will be loaded into a C-17 cargo plane for the one-way trip out of Alaska. Jim Bogert, a Department of Defense civilian employee who is overseeing Maggie's transport, talks with Melissa Block.
• Debates Do Little More Than Attack Front-Runner
  Do presidential candidates derive any benefit from participating in debates? Lately, candidate debates have focused on attacking the frontrunner, but candidates often fail to draw attention to their own attributes.

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