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Timothy Treadwell spent 13 summers among the grizzly bears of Alaska before one killed him. Film critic Kenneth Turan says director Werner Herzog has fashioned a riveting story of Treadwell's obsession.

In its second special session this year, the Oregon Legislature closed a $1.2 billion budget hole and passed 11 bills in 15 hours. But concerns about a rushed process pervaded.

The three-masted 200-foot SSV Oliver Hazard Perry was departing a Rhode Island festival in Narragansett Bay when it hit "multiple" boats and ran aground, the Coast Guard says.

The 14 Marines killed in Iraq and the six killed Monday all belonged to the same Ohio-based battalion. The Headquarters & Services Company, 25th Marine Regiment, 3rd battalion is headquartered in Brook Park, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. Renita Jablonski of member station WCPN reports.

Tenor saxophonist Davis and organist Scott had one of the great jazz partnerships in the late 1950s. A new anthology focuses on their Cookbook series of albums.

The tanker carried Russian-produced naphtha, a flammable oil, drawing Moscow further into a conflict that so far it had blamed on the U.S.

Nancy Hale won multiple literary prizes, and her writing shaped the early identity of The New Yorker. Now, she's mostly forgotten, but that may change with the release of a new edition of her work.

Susan Stamberg marks Fathers Day by dusting off 78 rpm home recordings made in 1940 and later by her father. He's been dead three decades. She never had the heart to listen before, feeling his loss was still too near to deal with.

Steve Inskeep talks with two mothers of sons who died in Iraq. The number of U.S. troops killed there has reached 2,000 since March of 2003. Gena Courtney and Nan Byrd talk of the experience their families have been through dealing with the loss of their loved ones.

Daniel Mendelsohn's best-selling memoir The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million tells the story of his grandfather's brother, who stayed in his Ukrainian town when his siblings left for America, and later died in the Holocaust. The book has just come out in paperback.