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Singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell recalls his childhood memory of hearing the song I Walk the Line by Johnny Cash in the backseat of a car. Crowell's story is called I Walk the Line-Revisted, and is set to be published in a collection next year.

NPR's Peter Overby reports on the recent announcements of appointees by President-elect George W. Bush. Bush named New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman for the appointment of administrator to the Environmental Protection Agency and former Missouri Senator John Ashcroft for the appointment to Attorney General of the United States.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard and John Nichols, editorial page editor of the Capitol Times in Madison Wisconsin and columnist for The Nation Magazine about President-elect Bush's cabinet appointments.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Florida Gov. Jeb Bush; President-elect George W. Bush and President Bill Clinton meeting at the White House; Sen. Joe Lieberman; George W. Bush announcing his appointments for Attorney General and Secretaries of Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, and Commerce; New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman, appointee for Environmental Protection Agency; Paul O'Neill, appointee for Treasury.

Injection drug use is a leading cause of the spread of HIV. Some health professionals are trying to curtail the sharing of used needles among drug addicts by giving them prescriptions to buy clean ones at local drugstores. But is this practice legal? From member station WBUR in Boston, Jason Beaubien reports.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reads a Southwest version of A Visit From St. Nicholas.

Scott speaks with Weekend Edition Saturday's sports commentator Ron Rapoport about the last weekend of the National Football League regular season before the playoffs.

Lisa talks with NPR's Sylvia Pogioli in Belgrade as Serb elections for the 250-seat parliament are held today. Watchers expect to see a turn in the polls away from the remaining supporters of former President Slobodan Milosevic and in favor newly elected President Voijslav Kostininica.

Last night a Los Angeles judge overturned the convictions of three LAPD officers involved in the corruption scandal in which police were found to brutalize and falsely arrest innocent citizens of crimes they didn't commit. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports.

A judge overturned the convictions of the police officers in the Ramparts corruption case in Los Angeles. Scott speaks with NPR's Ina Jaffe.