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  • Farmers in the Southeast had accused their own food cooperative, the Dairy Farmers of America, of striking a deal that created a milk monopoly and suppressed the price paid for raw milk. In settling the case, the cooperative said it did nothing wrong.
  • She said the bloodshed she witnessed in Toronto had taught her to cherish every moment in life.
  • While a powerful temblor near Sumatra has led to a "tsunami watch" for the entire Indian Ocean, so far only a minor wave has been generated.
  • Michelle Obama spoke at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday. On Wednesday, she made the rounds in Charlotte, N.C. talking to groups of delegates. The way to fight back, she said, was for delegates to step up their person-to-person ground game aimed at winning more votes for her husband.
  • BOISE, ID – Polls predict a tight race heading into South Carolina’s Republican Presidential Primary Saturday. The southern state has correctly picked the…
  • Young voters, who played a high profile role in the 2008 presidential race, are showing a relatively tepid response to the 2012 contest. But neither campaign is giving up on the historically hard to get demographic.
  • After more than 12 hours of legislative meetings that lasted nearly until midnight Wednesday, the Idaho legislature moved into unknown territory.
  • A group of chefs in South Philly's Italian Market set out to break the record for world's longest cheesesteak on Monday. The resulting hoagie spanned three blocks and caused some traffic issues.
  • This first half hour consists of three interview segments. One long one before the FLOATER, and then two shorter interviews:Writer and humanitarian ELIE WEISEL. WEISEL won the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize for his message of "peace and atonement and human dignity." A concentration camp survivor, he has been the most impassioned and poetic supporter of efforts to memorialize the six million Jews who died in Hitler's death camps. He is author of many works, including "Night," "Dawn".and "Twilight." His most recent book is "The Forgotten," published in 1992 (Summit Books). WEISEL also has a new book that has been published in France, and will be published n the U.S. later this year. (REBROADCAST FROM 6/8/88)Documentary filmmaker MARCEL OPHULS. He is best known for his 1970 work "The Sorrow and the Pity," about the conduct of the French people during the Holocaust. He also made the film "Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie." His 1992 film "November Days," is about life behind the iron curtain and the changes underway in Europe since the fall of the Berlin wall. It was described as "the runaway hit of the 1991 Berlin Film Festival." (REBROADCAST FROM 5/7/92)Minimalist composer STEVE REICH. He talks about his 1989 piece "Different Trains." (Electra Nonesuch) It was comissioned by the Kronos Quartet and inspired by Reich's childhood memories of traveling across the country by train during the late 30s and early 40s. Reich says those memories have mingled with his later realization that at the same time Jews in Europe were traveling on trains to their deaths. REICH recently released a new version of his "Tehillim." (Electra Nonesuch). "The Cave," a multimedia piece composed with his wife, is due out later this year. (REBROADCAST FROM 3
  • People across the country share the service projects their doing to honor the memory of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
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