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As the economy remains sluggish, some cities express regret at having offered financial incentives to attract new industry. Some companies are shutting down factories that cities and states paid to attract just a few years ago. NPR's Adam Hochberg reports.

Hurricane Katrina hit rural Hancock County, Miss., with stronger wind and higher water than anywhere else along the Gulf Coast. More than half of the county's 19,000 homes were destroyed. A year later, little of it is back.

As it roared through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, packing winds of up to 200 mph, the twister flattened buildings. Searchers continue to look for survivors and those who were killed.

America 24/7, a photographic collaboration profiling a week in the United States, is the latest project from Rick Smolan and David Elliot Cohen. The pair also shephered the photography project A Day in the Life of America.

The Team America Rocketry Challenge is a contest organized by the aerospace industry to lure young people -- especially girls -- to a career in space science. Nearly 10,000 students entered this year's challenge. We profile the one all-girl team that made the finals.

The cargo ship MV Torgelow returned to her home port in Mombasa, Kenya, last weekend after being held for 53 days by pirates off the coast of Somalia. This and other similar attacks are preventing relief agencies from delivering food and other supplies by sea to Somalia, according to relief officials.

The space plane provided great views and a few minutes of weightlessness. Virgin Galactic says it hopes to begin regular flights in June.

For the past five years, the Golden State Warriors have traveled to San Quentin, the well-known California maximum security prison, to play a basketball game against select prison inmates.

To close out the month of September, Front Row Classics brings you a very special interview. Brandon and Eric welcome Todd Fisher to the Front Row. Todd...

Pete Shelley, the British songwriter and co-founder of the punk rock band, the Buzzcocks, has died at age 63.