Minnesota Public Radio Stories

• Large crowd rallies against hate speech at St. Thomas
  At least 1,000 people marched across campus to support three African American students who were targets of anonymous notes peppered with racial slurs.5:17 p.m.
• Minneapolis to try curbside composting
  For some people in Minneapolis later this year, recycling will take a new twist.5:20 p.m.
• Day of the Dead celebrates life
  Day of the Dead is celebrated Thursday all across Latin America and one Minneapolis non-profit is mounting a celebration of its own.5:49 p.m.

National Public Radio Stories

• Don Imus Will Make a Comeback to Radio
  Nine months after a racist, sexist remark threatened to end Don Imus' career, the shock jock is reportedly making a comeback. New York's WABC-AM annouced Thursday that Imus would return to its airwaves.
• Hingis Retires from Tennis Amid Cocaine Accusation
  Martina Hingis admits that she has been accused of testing positive for cocaine at Wimbledon. The 27-year-old, who has won five Grand Slams, denies the accusation. Also, she has retired from professional tennis.
• Letters: Twins, Stunned Reporter, Bleepity-Bleep
  Melissa Block and Robert Siegel read from listeners' letters and e-mails, including responses about stories on twins separated at birth, one of our reporters getting stunned, and "bleeping" for comedic effect.
• Chicago to Overhaul Troubled Police Department
  The city of Chicago continues its search for someone to run its troubled police department. Whoever gets the job will take control of the department after one of its most scandalous years in recent memory. In the past 12 months, Chicago police officers have been involved in several videotaped beatings, alleged burglary rings — even an alleged murder-for-hire plot — to say nothing of past problems with the department that have bubbled to the surface. Ben Calhoun reports from Chicago Public Radio.
• Comedy Writer Gauges Mood of Writers Guild
  Scores of writers will meet Thursday night in Los Angeles to decide whether their guild should strike. At the meeting will be Hugh Fink, a veteran comedy writer who won an Emmy for his work on Saturday Night Live.
• Pilot of Enola Gay Had No Regrets for Hiroshima
  Paul Tibbets, who piloted the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb, has died at age 92. On Aug. 6, 1945, Tibbets' B-29 dropped the nearly five-ton bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Tibbets always insisted that he did not have regrets.
• Bush Accuses Democrats of Ignoring Terrorism
  For the second time in as many days, President Bush used a speech to take a hard line against Congress. Speaking at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, he accused Democrats of not realizing that the U.S. still faces threats from terrorists.
• Rock Climber Chris Sharma Chases Next 'King Line'
  Chris Sharma is hailed as the world's best rock climber and has mastered some of the most spectacular and difficult routes in the sport's history. Sharma talks about climbing and his quest for "king lines" — climbs that test his limits.
• Texas Team on Verge of Reversing 30-Year Curse
  The Panthers of Prairie View A&M in Prairie View, Texas, lost a record 80 consecutive football games in the 1990s and have had a losing record since 1976. But this year, their fortunes could be changing.
• Cult Appeal of 'Darko' Film Spawns Stage Version
  Richard Kelly's 2001 film Donnie Darko has become a cult favorite through relentless midnight screenings across the country. Now, a play that tries to capture the film's quick cuts through some 70 stage scenes is showing in Cambridge, Mass.
• Zipcar, Flexcar to Combine Resources
  Zipcar and Flexcar both rent cars on an hourly basis to city people who don't want to be bothered with owning a car. The companies have only been around for a few years, and neither one has turned a profit. Now, they plan to merge, reduce costs and start making money.
• Senate Panel OKs Bill to Cut Greenhouse Gases
  A Senate panel approved a bill Thursday that aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by more than half by 2050. Supporters say it would make the United States a leader in addressing global warming, but critics say the measure falls short of what's needed.
• Ex-Ambassador Explains What Iraq Posts Entail
  Retired ambassador Tim Carney returned in May from his second diplomatic tour at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, which he says was completely different from his first trip, when he was part of the Coalition Provisional Authority in 2003.
• Diplomats Face Forced Assignment to Iraq
  This week, more than 200 Foreign Service officers received word that they might be directed to serve in Iraq. If too few volunteer for 48 positions by Nov. 12, the State Department will have to make forced assignments — something it hasn't done since the Vietnam War.
• Memoir Details Psychologist's Combat Hospital Duty
  Heidi Squier Kraft, author of a new memoir called Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital, served more than seven months as a clinical psychologist at a remote air base in western Iraq.

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