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Peoria's new pre-professional soccer team, Peoria City, takes the field at Shea Stadium for the first time this spring.

A new work of fiction, read by the author, Alexs (Alex) Pate. Minneapolis is the setting. The title is "Merry Christmas, Tamyra." It's the story of Campbell Fielding, 20 years old, who is spending a last Christmas with his family before he joins the Navy. The week before Thanksgiving, he witnessed a murder. He does not want to go to the police with his information, so to escape from the neighborhood, he joined the service. His mother questions his decision -- it looks like there might be war, and she doesn't want him in danger. His father -- a Navy man himself -- is proud, but Campbell knows that he's going into the Navy not out of duty or honor, but simply to run away from the gang members who murdered the little girl. Alexs Pate's latest novel is called West of Rehoboth.

Lt. Gen. John Vines, commander of U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan since June 2003, speaks to NPR's Steve Inskeep about a resurgence of attacks by the Taliban against police and civilian officials. Vines says the enemy is most active in southern Afghanistan, near some of the nation's most productive opium fields.

In 1921, 7,000 miners fought a pitched battle to unionize West Virginia coal fields. The dispute at Blair Mountain remains one of the largest armed uprisings in U.S. history. Now the fight is over preserving the area or mining it.

Fox Sports announced the deal and Brady confirmed the plans. But before he begins calling some of the biggest games, Brady said he has "unfinished business" on the field with Tampa Bay.

As the 10th anniversary of his record-breaking streak approaches, retired Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken Jr. talks about baseball's steroids scandal, the sad state of sportsmanship and his life off the field.

In Nadeem Aslam's new novel, The Wasted Vigil, post-Sept. 11 Afghanistan is a vast field of human misery, physical distress and wounds — both physical and psychic.

The former child star capped off a successful awards season with an unsurprising win. Quan is only the second Asian performer to receive this award after Haing S. Ngor for The Killing Fields in 1985.

Referees have wide discretion to add extra game time due to injuries, substitutions and lengthy celebrations after goals. At this tournament, referees are tacking on a lot more than previous tourneys.

Near a soccer field in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, N.Y., immigrant vendors have served Mexican food since the 1970s. Now they face the possibility of permit hikes that could price them out of business. Some blame gentrification.