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Scott Jagow of member station WFAE reports on the murder trial of former NFL player Rae Carruth. Carruth is accused of hiring someone to kill his pregnant girlfriend and faces the death penalty if found guilty.

Alan Furst specializes in atmospheric spy thrillers set during the Nazi occupation of Europe. Paris in the spring of 1938 is the dateline of his latest book. Alan Cheuse has a review of Kingdom of Shadows. (2:00) Kingdom of Shadows, by Alan Furst is published by Random House.

Harsh winter weather this year means ski resorts have been busier than usual...even in the South. Melanie Peeples reports on skiing as far South as Georgia and Alabama.

NPR's Peter Overby reports Congress will have a busy week of confirmation hearings for President-elect Bush's cabinet nominees. Hearings for Mr. Bush's choices of John Ashcroft for Attorney General and Gale Norton for Interior Secretary are expected to be contentious. But other nominees, such as Tommy Thompson as Health and Human Services Secretary and Christie Whitman as EPA Administrator are likely to sail through with few snags.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports on the Bush nominee for Secretary of Interior. Gale Norton is a staunch supporter of state's rights over federal regulation and an advocate of so-called free market environmentalism, who's adherents believe the government should provide financial compensation to landowners for whom environmental laws restrict the use of their land in any way.

Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura has published a book, and has his own action figure. Now a Minnesota newspaper will start a comic strip to parody the former wrestler. VenturaLand premieres in the St. Paul Pioneer Press the end of this month. The editorial board of the paper had been wanting to find a cartoon based on the Governor for some time. Kevin Lenagh, was just the man to do it, and took the name VenturaLand from a meteorologist who coined it when reporting on the strange weather in Minnesota. Noah talks with Lenagh about drawing the Ventura cartoon. (3:45)You'll be able to view the comic strip on-line at http://www.pioneerplanet.com in two weeks.

Commentator Robert Franklin, President of the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia, reflects on the role of black preachers in American life. They are at once poets and storytellers and the conscience of the country.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Ed Bliss, a writer and editor who founded the broadcast journalism program at American University. His new memoir, Beyond the Stone Arches looks back on the forty years his father spent as a medical missionary in China.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Gerry Hadden about the latest on the earthquake in San Salvador and relief efforts underway there.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Stuart Eizenstat, the Clinton administration's point man on Holocaust issues, about the presentation of his commission's final report today at the White House.