Minnesota Public Radio Stories

• Airlines lower fares to lure travelers during recession
  Travelers have found roundtrip tickets to Cancun or Cozumel as low at $120, while longer trips to London have sold for around $700.6:50 a.m.
• Baseball stories to inspire art at new ballpark
  Craig David, one of the artists designing the murals expected to go on the new Minnesota Twins ballpark in Minneapolis, wants to incorporate baseball stories and memories from everyday Minnesotans into his work.6:55 a.m.
• Faulty health care database costs consumers billions
  Congressional investigators say a Minnesota company sold health insurers faulty data, causing patients around the nation to pay more than they owed for certain health care costs.7:20 a.m.
• Art Hounds: Tennessee Williams, Nora Labiner, Shakespeare in Winona
  This week's Art Hounds hunt down a new Tennesse Williams play at Gremlin Theater, rave about writer Nora Labiner's new novel, and are on the scent of Shakespearean sililoquies in Winona.8:25 a.m.

National Public Radio Stories

• Supreme Court Issues Three Major Rulings
  The Supreme Court is racing toward the end of its term — releasing decisions in many big cases. There were three major rulings on Thursday.
• Salty Sea May Lurk Under Saturn Moon
  Salty ice grains inside in Saturn's outer ring point to a possible underground ocean on the moon Enceladus.
• Selling Naming Rights May Save College Classes
  City College of San Francisco's chancellor came up with an idea to keep classes from being canceled: donate $6,000 and you can have the class named after you. The Board of Trustees meets Thursday to discuss the idea. Not everyone is happy with the plan.
• Billionaire Stanford To Appear In Texas Court
  Indicted Texas financier Allen Stanford is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in Houston on charges he cheated investors out of $7 billion. Stanford previously has said he is not guilty of running a Ponzi scheme.
• Literary Classics Something To Tweet About
  The publisher Penguin has commissioned a new volume of books. Two college students are compressing literary classics into 20 tweets or less. It's called Twitterature.
• French Tourists Get Scary N.Y. Welcome
  Five tourists from France found themselves on a wild ride in New York City. Looking for a cab, the visitors hopped into an unlicensed van. The airport's police spotted the criminal cab, and immediately gave chase through two boroughs until the van crashed.
• Obama To Lay Groundwork For Immigration Debate
  President Obama meets at the White House Thursday with supporters and opponents of changes to the nation's immigration system. Aides say the president hopes to start a formal debate on immigration later this year.
• Iran's Security Forces Stopped Opposition Protest
  Huge street demonstrations in Iran have been reduced to only die-hard protesters. Those who tried to gather Wednesday were violently dispersed by security forces. State-run television says more than 600 people have been arrested since the disputed June 12th presidential election.
• Is Apple Obliged To Say More About CEO's Health?
  A hospital disclosed this week that the computer maker's CEO had a liver transplant because he had "end-stage liver disease" and was the sickest patient on the list, raising questions about whether the company should have disclosed more about his condition to investors.
• Bernanke To Answer Questions Of A Cover-Up
  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is on Capital Hill Thursday responding to charges that the Fed engaged in a cover-up as it aided Bank of America's takeover of Merrill Lynch.
• Nightlife Area's Dress Code Seen As Discriminatory
  While many nightclubs have dress codes, some say a new entertainment district is so strict that it discriminates against African-American and Latino patrons. Rules prohibit sleeveless shirts on men, excessively baggy clothing, work boots and sports attire.
• S. C. Gov. Sanford Admits Affair, Trip To Argentina
  South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford had been missing from the state for several days. He admitted on Wednesday that he had secretly flown to Argentina to visit a woman he was having an affair with. He apologized to his family and gave up a national Republican Party post.
• Will Health Care Overhaul Be Partisan Action?
  President Obama wants to overhaul the nation's health care system, and he would like it done in bipartisan fashion. But the more details congressional Democrats reveal about their health care plans, the louder Republicans protest. That raises the question: How many Republicans do the Democrats really need — or want — to support their health care plans?
• Another GOP Star Fades After Infidelity
  South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford had been on the short list of potential candidates running for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012. He is the second Republican in as many weeks who's political future has been hurt by an extra-marital scandal.
• Regina Spektor Hears Magic In The Inexplicable
  The rising young singer-songwriter writes about all those things you're not supposed to talk about at parties. Her music defies explanation, but she likes it that way.

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