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A small Catholic church in Boston has been given a two-year reprieve after being told it would need to close. Parishioners at St. Mary of the Angels, in the city's low-income Roxbury neighborhood, are praying that the church will prove its worth to the community and stay open.

New York City's most famous evicted red-tailed hawks, Pale Male and Lola, have gotten their nest back -- or at least a new steel-cradle structure and the spikes to anchor it. Now they can return to their home atop a Fifth Avenue co-op building. NPR's Margot Adler reports.

A week after two renowned red-tailed hawks were evicted from their perch on a co-op building above Fifth Avenue, the co-op is allowing them to come back, if they choose. The co-op worked out an agreement with representatives from the city's parks department and the Audubon Society. NPR's Margot Adler reports.

The federal government raises the terror alert level for financial districts in the New York City, Newark and Washington, D.C. Officials say intelligence shows that al Qaeda has studied five potential targets but there is less information about when an attack might occur. Hear NPR's Renee Montagne and Richard Hake of member station WNYC.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to Reuters correspondent Michael Georgy, reporting from Iraq about new developments in the ongoing siege of Najaf. On Thursday, Iraq's leading Shiite clerics held a peace conference in the holy city in hopes of ending the standoff between U.S.-led forces and insurgents loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

The police department in Bangor, Maine, has had a surprise hit with its Facebook page. In a city of 33,000, the page has earned almost 20,000 followers.

We remember Consuelo Velazquez, whose song "Besame Mucho" became a standard in many languages and styles of music. Velazquez died Saturday in Mexico City at the age of 84. "Besame Mucho" became a big band hit during World War II and was later recorded by many artists over the years, including the Beatles and Nat King Cole.

Looters have stripped machinery at two of Baghdad's main treatment plants, allowing sewage to seep into the city's streets. The problem raises the prospect of cholera outbreaks and other public health concerns. U.S. administrators say it may take more than a year before the sewer system returns to pre-war efficiency. Hear NPR's Eric Westervelt.

More American paratroopers arrive in northern Iraq as Kurdish fighters seize positions abandoned by Iraqi paramilitary forces. The Kurds say they're within 15 miles of the oil city of Kurkuk. The Kurdish advance follows heavy U.S. bombing of the area. NPR's Ivan Watson reports.

Conducting airstrikes and artillery assaults, U.S. forces clash with Iraqi troops in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit. U.S. military planners had expected remnants of the Iraqi army and Baath party may mount a last stand there, but reports suggest that many soldiers have fled and that defenses in the city are seriously weakened. Hear Michael Ware of Time magazine.