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The cries were coming from a 40-year-old parrot named Rambo. Deputies from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office consider the case closed.

Springfield authorities have confirmed that the victims of a plane crash Tuesday were the Sangamon County Coroner Cinda Edwards, her husband Frank – a...

A 25-year-old Mackinaw man believed to be murdered in California died from blunt force trauma to the head. Lake County, Calif. Sheriff's deputies...

Washington County Sheriff deputies apprehended the robotic vacuum cleaner. The Sheriff's office posted the story with a photo of the Roomba — which had left no trace of the crime.

Montgomery County Public Schools in Southwestern Virginia uses a company called Wing. One of the company's small drones hovers 23 feet over a student's house and it drops the book on a cable.

Local governments in California are struggling with how to respond to Governor Pete Wilson's plan to eliminate a state program providing pre-natal care to illegal immigrants. The governor says taxpayers should not have to fund services for people who are breaking the law, and officials in many counties agree. But others say offering pre-natal care is more cost-effective than paying for later medical problems in the babies, who are US citizens. Jason Beaubien (BOH-bee-en) of member station KQED reports.

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia, is a model for the nation's magnet schools. It churns out record numbers of merit scholars by providing students with the best equipment and the best opportunities to succeed in science education. But as NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports, some educators wonder whether the school's open-minded attitude and lack of structure need to give way to a more disciplined atmosphere. They point to recent incidents of vandalism, saying that even the brightest kids need to learn basic rules of behavior.

Lisa talks with Akhil Reed Amar, law professor at Yale University, and Howard Gillman, professor of political science at the University of Southern California, about the legal grounds on which the Bush camp has based their request for an injunction to stop the hand count of some Palm Beach County, Fla., ballots. They also address the political implications of using the courts to decide the election.

NPR's Nina Totenberg talks to Noah about today's US Supreme Court ruling on the presidential election. The justices set aside the Florida Supreme Court ruling which had allowing a later deadline for the counties to report their vote totals. The court in Washington asked the Florida court to explain whether its ruling was based on statutes or on the Florida constitution. The federal justices would give more deference to a state court interpreting state election law than to a state court relying on a more general right to vote.

The presidential race is not the only closely fought battle in Florida. In that state's 22nd congressional district, 20-year incumbent Clay Shaw leads Democratic challenger Elaine Bloom by just 589 votes after a hand recount in six Miami-Dade precincts. Her requests for hand recounts in Broward and Palm Beach counties were rejected, as was her request for a full recount in Dade. The Florida race joins many other close races around the country, and will lead to the most divided Congress in decades. Phillip Davis reports.