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In Michigan, six state employees were charged Friday with covering up information that could have warned the public about lead contamination of the city of Flint's drinking water.

Family members of Andrew Brown Jr. were allowed to view a short snippet of body camera footage showing his killing by police in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

In New York City, a four-year old girl named Nadine Lockwood was found dead in a crib on Saturday - allegedly starved to death by her mother, who told police she "did not want or love" Nadine. Six other children in the squalid apartment were found, apparently unharmed. The case has focused attention once again on New York's child welfare system. The family had been investigated by a caseworker after a complaint, but the case was subsequently closed. NPR's Melissa Block reports.

It was announced today - "the electronic cash" of the future. Citibank, Chase Manhattan, Mastercard and Visa announced a joint project...The idea being-- a consumer loads the amount money onto a plastic card... much like a Metro or phone card or debit card.. let's say $100. This card would be accepted in lieu of cash at places like the dry cleaners or in a taxicab. The difference between this and a debit card? It's quicker to process. There will be a test run by year's end in New York, city. Robert Siegel talks with Henry Lichstein (Lick-stine), the vice-president for advanced technology at Citibank, about this "cash of the future."

at the FBI's forensic lab. She talks with outspoken whistleblower Frederick Whitehurst. He says that other agents contaminated and misplaced evidence... sometimes in such high profile cases as the Oklahoma City bombing. Whitehurst says his own lab reports were changed by superiors to make the lab look good and to help prosecutors. The FBI denies the charges. The agency now has to respond to the Justice Department, following a year-long investigation.

in downtown Philadelphia. The building was destroyed by fire six years ago, but it's still standing as a monument to litigation and inaction...right across the street from city hall. Structural engineers argue over what could or should be done, they say implosion would be too disruptive and expensive. Dozens of lawsuits have been filed, the current case is between the building's owners and their insurance company.

Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick (guh-RELL-ick) said today that "a serious set of problems" has been found in the FBI crime laboratory, but she said it was too soon to say whether remedial steps would prevent harm to a limited number of prosecutions. NPR has obtained copies of summaries of interviews conducted by the Justice Department involving the Oklahoma City bombing investigation. One of the problems reported was that the crime scene may have been compromised when the memorial service for victims of that bombing was allowed to take place on the site before all the evidence had been gathered. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports.

endorsed needle exchange programs for drug addicts, who are likely to spread AIDS. The officials stopped short of lifting the ban on federal funds for the program. While supplying addicts with free, clean syringes can slow the spread of the virus, the idea has been controversial since it was proposed early in the epidemic. More than 50 cities currently run a needle exchange program, but they're funded through local or private funds.

NPR's Mandalit Delbarco reports that while President Clinton visited southern California this week, local officials were scrambling to figure out how they'll cope with the new welfare reform act the President has said he will sign. The reform would cut legal immigrants off from many key support payments (such as SSI, food stamps and Medicare), and cities like L.A., with a high number of immigrants, will have to look to state and local coffers to pick up the costs that may result.

In the first of two reports, NPR's Ann Cooper profiles two Russian families... how they view their lives and how they intend to vote in next week's Presidential run-off election. One family lives in Moscow and supports Russian President Yeltsin. The other family lives in Ivanovo (ee-VAH-noh-vuh), an industrial city northeast of Moscow, and supports Communist Gennady Zyuganov ((gen-AH-dee zyu-GAH-noff)). Today's report features the family living in Ivanovo (e-VAH-noh-vuh), where industrial reform has been a disaster.