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Singer Lorna Luft is the daughter of Judy Garland. The new made-for-TV movie Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows will be broadcast on Sunday, February 25th on ABC. The movie is based on Luft's 1998 memoir Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir (Pocket Books). Judy Garland died in 1969. Lorna Luft is also a half sister to Liza Minnelli. (REBROADCAST from 4

Film critic Henry Sheehan reviews Monkey Bones the new part animated/part live-action film starring Brendan Fraiser.

New York City taxi drivers are now in the second week of a hunger strike outside City Hall in Manhattan. They're demanding debt relief for thousands of drivers who are facing financial ruin.

A welcome early season deluge of rain in California has not ended the drought which persists in other parts of the West as well. The warming climate makes it harder to replenish rivers and reservoirs.

Commentator Jill Maxi Schreibman knows firsthand what it's like to be laid off by a dot-com company.. .and she's determined not to go through it again.

Commentator Leis Wiehl says a federal judge in Illinois got it wrong when he gave a longer sentence to one of two people convicted in the burglary and arson of a Jewish community center.

In a report filed for the BBC, Richard Galpin reports thousands of refugees are being evacuated from the island of Borneo in Indonesia to get them away from ethnic warfare.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports on the month since Bill Clinton left the White House. The former president, his pardons, his gifts, his wife and his relatives have been constantly in the news. Democrats had expected the post-presidency Clinton to be a party leader. Now they're not sure what to make of him or his future.

NPR's Phillip Davis reports that the Governor's Election Reform task force is recommending that Florida adopt optical scanning statewide to count votes.

California Gov. Gray Davis is struggling to patch together a plan that will save the state's big utilities from bankruptcy while protecting consumers from whopping rate increases. It's a tall order. Utilities, lawmakers, power generators and consumer advocates are pressing their very different interests in high stakes negotiations. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports.

Members of the community of Chelsea, Vt., gathered last night in a church basement to reflect on the murders of two Dartmouth University professors. Two teenagers are accused in the crime. Host Noah Adams speaks with psychiatrist Andy Pomerantz, who was at the meeting. Pomerantz says it was a time for people to question what the tragedy says about their own community.

Alex Van Oss reports on the latest developments in the controversial World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. There has been opposition to the proposed memorial, which would be built on one of the few open spaces remaining on the Mall, near the Washington Monument.