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At the start of the pro baseball season, stories about steroid use among ballplayers made headlines. Now those concerns seem to have drifted away -- and if attendance figures are any indication, fans are enjoying the games and forgetting the controversy. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and Wall Street Journal sportswriter Stefan Fatsis.

Former Enron CEO and Chairman Kenneth Lay pleads not guilty to federal charges that he participated in a scheme to deceive investors and government regulators about his company's financial health. NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports.

The Pride of Baltimore, a tall ship built for the American Bicentennial, sank in a storm in 1986, killing four people. Eight others survived. Author Tom Waldron tells the story in his book Pride of the Sea.

Commentator Walter Mosley reflects on the friends he's had and lost over the years.

An activist group has defused a controversy over a billboard protesting the Iraq war. Project Billboard had intended to put up in New York's Times Square a picture of a bomb decorated with stars and stripes reading "Democracy is best taught by example, not war." Clear Channel, which rented the space to the group, objected. The group has now agreed to change the bomb to a dove, plus a ticker tape showing the cost of the war.

The 1980s group Squeeze set a standard for British pop music that still sounds fresh today. Former frontman Glenn Tilbrook is now a one-man standard-bearer, and he's just released his third solo CD, Transatlantic Ping Pong. He speaks with NPR's Brian Naylor.

In the worst violence since Iraq's new government took over two weeks ago, a car bomb was detonated at the entrance to the interim governments offices, killing 10 and wounding 40. Soon after, insurgents ambushed the governor of Mosul's convoy, killing the governor and two bodyguards. NPR's Philip Reeves reports.

The presidential campaigns are in full swing and that's great news for America's political cartoonists. NPR's Renee Montagne talks about drawing the candidates with Pulitzer Prize winners Mike Lucovich and Mike Peters.

NPR's Susan Stamberg speaks with veterinarian Eric Clough about his idea that pets -- and pet owners -- could benefit for hospice care for animals.

A Senate Intelligence Committee report issued Friday suggests that the global intelligence community, in investigating whether or not Saddam Hussein's government had access to weapons of mass destruction, suffered from a "collective groupthink," which led them to misinterpret "ambiguous evidence." All Things Considered explains the term "groupthink."