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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell, who this week became the Democratic candidate running for Congress in Missouri, besting U.S. Rep. Cori Bush.

As Jersey City remembers the victims of last week's attack on a Kosher market, the community is talking about its diversity and how to stop hate crimes.

President Trump is trying to shift attention to his infrastructure plan, taking his pitch for more private investment in critical transportation assets to Cincinnati.

Illinois public schools wishing to teach their students about the dangers of overdoses and substance use disorder now have a blueprint to do so from the state.

Anthony Byrd, an ISU alum, serves as a special offender specialist in the U.S. Pretrial Service and is an adjunct criminal justice instructor for Lindenwood University in St. Charlies, Mo.

In every state, governments charge parents for the cost of foster care when children are taken away. When that happens, NPR found, poor parents can't make ends meet, so families are kept apart longer.

All 18 of the state's congressional districts will have to be redrawn by Feb. 15 to comply with a state Supreme Court order that ruled the districts were drawn in an overly partisan manner.

Robert talks to Frederick Wiseman, the director of "Belfast, Maine," a documentary about life in that small New England town. The four hour film shows scenes of everyday life, without narration. Wiseman's cameras visit places all over town, including trailer homes, factories, the county jail and emergency room and a school. Wiseman describes his philosophy of filmmaking. The film airs tomorrow on PBS.

Host Brooke Gladstone speaks with Frank Petrozelli Superintendent for Broward County Schools in Florida about the problem of public school overcrowding. Demographers attribute the overcrowding problem to something they call the baby boom echo, a term which describes the children of the baby boom generation. Petrozelli says his schools must accomodate 10 thousand new students each year.

NPR's John Burnett reports that although Oklahomans voted this month to outlaw cockfighting in their state, some lawmen are refusing to enforce the new ban. The practice of setting fighting chickens against each other and betting on the bloody outcome is lucrative, and in several counties there are legal challenges to the ban.