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A pilot program at Orlando International Airport allows passengers to speed through security checkpoints -- if they first submit to a detailed background check. The Bush administration is trying to decide whether to expand such "registered traveler" programs.

Oil prices have fallen more than $12 a barrel from their peak level after Hurricane Katrina. But with domestic production still feeling the effects of that storm, government forecasters suggest the downward trend may be ending.

Congress has ordered a return of natural quiet at the Grand Canyon, but that's a tough mandate. Air tour operators have long resisted restrictions. With both sides finally working together, the challenge is to measure quiet.

Celebrities and common folk celebrated the life of journalist Hunter Thompson Saturday night, then cheered as his ashes were loaded into shells and fired into the skies over his ranch outside Aspen. NPR's Loren Jenkins, a close friend, was in attendance.

Dennis Rader, the confessed BTK serial killer, receives 10 life sentences for murders committed in Kansas. In June, Rader pleaded guilty to 10 murders that took place between 1974 and 1991.

U.S. Rep. John Murtha, a Democrat from Pennsylvania with strong ties to the military, catapulted into the spotlight recently with his call for a quick withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. Murtha says U.S. commanders on the ground in Iraq support his position.

The head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. John Warner (R-VA), makes an unscheduled visit to the Pentagon to demand details of U.S. military efforts to pay journalists to plant stories in Iraqi newspapers. The Pentagon says disclaimers that were meant to run with the stories were omitted.

Amazon.com has rounded up more than 1,000 titles of classic literature and is offering them as a single purchase for just under $8,000. The Penguin Classics Collection weighs 700 pounds -- but delivery is free.

Reporter Trish Anderton recently visited Ohio for a rally of owners of Amphicars -- a vehicle that's a combination car and boat, produced in Germany from 1961 to 1968. Owners around America cherish the few that survive.

Forty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson vowed to end the Jim Crow machinery that kept African Americans away from the polls. Join Neal Conan and guests for stories of the Voting Rights Act.