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Shorey's, a Seattle legend, is closing its famed bookstacks. In business since 1890, the landmark bookstore is now doing 60% of its sales on line. So owners are shutting down a local landmark and becoming a web-only service. Christine Arrasmith of member station KPLU in Seattle reports.

From Missoula, Montana, Kathy Witkowsy reports on the widespread damage that drought and wildfires are causing in the western part of the state. Hundreds of thousands of acres of forest have burned already, and millions of acres more have been closed because of fire danger. Businesses that rely on tourism are losing money, and ranchers are facing losses too. More than 200 buildings have been destroyed by fire.

Liane speaks with Katie Jones, who owns the Internet domain name Katie.com. Ever since Katie Tarbox's book with the same title was published earlier this year, Katie Jones has been receiving unwanted e-mail and other messages at her site. The book Katie.com tells a harrowing story of a teenaged girl's relationship with an on-line stalker.

Norwegian divers struggled to open the hatch of the sunken Kursk submarine today, 354 feet under the Barents Sea. There have been conflicting reports from Russian, Norwegian and British rescue teams over the amount of damage to the submarine's hatch and over what may have caused the accident. From Moscow, NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.

The Toronto International Film Fest is usually mobbed with over a thousand industry types from all over the world. But this year the partially-online festival has been bleak and deserted.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports from Moscow that Norwegian divers in the Barents Sea have confirmed Russia's worst fears: all 118 men aboard the submarine Kursk are dead. As the rescue effort wound down, Russians continue to ask questions about their government's handling of the tragedy. Attention also turned to the task of raising the sub from the ocean floor before its nuclear reactors begin to leak.'

Montana writer Mary Clearman Blew is better known for her memoirs and essays than for her fiction. But our book reviewer Alan Cheuse finds her collection of short stories, Sister Coyote, well worth the reading. (2:00) Sister Coyote, by Mary Clearman Blew is published by The Lyons Press.

A small development for gays and lesbians in Florida -- the first in the nation -- may be the edge of a new trend, retirement communities for gays where they don't have to stay "in the closet."

Host Jacki Lyden speaks with journalist Geraldine Brooks who is reporting on the Sydney Olympics for the Wall Street Journal. It seems that Sydney residents are trying to take some pomp out of the ceremony of the games, satirizing them in tv shows, and holding mock-athletic competitions.

NPR's Melissa Block reports that Al Gore and Joseph Lieberman get back aboard their rented riverboat named Mark Twain today as they wrap up a post-convention swing.