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Hip-hop and R&B acts dominate the field of nominees for this year's Grammy awards, announced Thursday. Beyonce, Jay-Z, OutKast and Pharrell Williams each earned six nominations. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and music writer Tom Moon.

The source of the E. coli bacteria that tainted spinach crops in Central California, leading to three deaths and hundreds more made seriously ill, has been traced to cows at a ranch near the spinach fields outside the town of Salinas. John Sepulvado from member station KAZU reports.

Searing temperatures are expected this week in most of California, spelling more risk for firefighters and for people laboring in agricultural fields. This summer, at least one farmworker has died due to heat exhaustion. California officials are trying to better enforce laws requiring growers to provide adequate water and shade.

The career of a once-revered Olympic athlete is in tatters. Track and field superstar Marion Jones pleaded guilty Friday to lying to federal agents about her use of banned performance-enhancing drugs. Following her appearance in a federal court, she made the tearful announcement that she is retiring from her sport.

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have found a field of dinosaur footprints on the Isle of Skye. The footprints were made by giant dinosaurs 50 feet long that weighed nearly 20 tons.

The documentary filmmaker has been chosen to deliver this year's Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, the highest honor bestowed by the federal government for work in the field.

The Democratic presidential field started out as the most diverse ever, and the largest in at least 40 years. It's since winnowed down to one.

Gillian (JILL-ee-un) Sharpe reports on testimony before the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. A survivor of the killing fields of Bosnia says he saw Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic ((rat-koh MLA-ditch)) watching the killings. The testimony came as the Tribunal considers issuing international arrest warrants for Mladic and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic ((RAH-doh-vahn KARE-ud-jitch)).

- Daniel talks with musician "Vinx." His real name is Vincent De Jean Parrette. He hails from Kansas City and at one time held the world record in the track and field event called the triple jump. He was also on the 1980 U.S. Olympic team that fell victim to a boycott. Music Vinx says though has always been his love from the time he was a young boy playing the bongos in the closet of his parents home.

United Airlines faces another large debt payment Monday. The struggling airline is trying to persuade the mechanics union to take salary cuts to help stave off bankruptcy. The mechanics are the last holdout in a company-wide effort to reduce labor costs. Jay Field reports.