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Mitchell is accused of supplying the inmates with saw blades and other contraband that helped them escape. With the costly manhunt still underway, new details are emerging about how the plot unfolded.

Monica Lewis, a singer and actress who was best known as the voice of a popular series of animated commercials for Chiquita bananas, died Friday at 93.

Len Berk loves lox, the salt-cured salmon that goes so well with bagels. The 85-year-old New Yorker is a veteran salmon slicer at a gourmet food shop in Manhattan. But it wasn't always that way.

A passenger with a fake bomb diverted a Cairo-bound EgyptAir flight to Cyprus, where he was arrested and passengers escaped unhurt. But it raised questions again about Egyptian aviation safety.

This spring, the historic Oregon's Pine Creek Ranch becomes federally protected wilderness, and back country volunteers are tearing down the miles of rusty barbed wire surrounding the land.

Friday night in Chicago, a 13-year-old boy named Zarriel Trotter — who last year appeared in an anti-violence PSA — was hit by a stray bullet. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with his principal, Elizabeth Jamison-Dunn.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with NPR's pop culture blogger Linda Holmes and movie critic Bob Mondello about Sunday's Oscar awards.

In this installment of our Weekend Reads series, author Meg Medina selects Skila Brown's novel in poems Caminar, which follows a young boy who survives the slaughter of his village in Guatemala.

NPR remembers some of those who died Tuesday night when an Amtrak train derailed in Philadelphia.

Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 188 derailed in Philadelphia Tuesday night. At least seven people were killed and more than 200 passengers were treated for injuries.

When a film starts, "you have anywhere from two to 10 seconds to get the audience's attention," score writer Bear McCreary says. He gained this and other advice from his mentor, whom he met by chance.

The country singer's music is steeped in loss and heartache, emotions she knows well. Her debut solo album recounts the struggles she has faced, and what she has learned along the way.