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Pedro Hernandez appears in Manhattan criminal court on Nov. 15, 2012, in New York. He was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years to life in the killing of Etan Patz.

Etan Patz Killer Sentenced To 25 Years To Life

Pedro Hernandez was sentenced Tuesday in the 1979 killing of the 6-year-old New York City boy, whose disappearance sparked decades of investigation and helped create a generation of wary parents.

Sen. Jim Jeffords (R-VT) Profile

NPR's Steve Inskeep profiles Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords, a moderate Republican who cast a crucial vote against President Bush's $1.6 trillion tax cut proposal. Sen. Jeffords' tie-breaking ability on close votes in the evenly divided Senate gives him considerable influence. He used it to help reduce the size of the tax cut by about a fourth and divert more than $200 billion of it to pay for special education. Jeffords was just re-elected and has received less criticism in his home-state than from conservative Republicans in Washington, D.C.

John Skrip III, owner of Clover Hill Vineyards and Winery in Breinigsville, PA, where the Spotted Lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) was first detected in Pennsylvania in September 2014. Skrip lost six archers in his vineyard after it became ground zero for the infestation by the invasive species that devours plants like grapes.

Scientist Bruce Reisch on how can growers withstand climate change

In the first hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson" on Thursday, April 6, 2023, we talk with Bruce Reisch about how growers can withstand climate change in the Finger Lakes.

Britain Blocks Manuscript Sale To Getty Museum

The Getty Museum in Los Angeles reportedly paid more than $6 million recently at an auction in London for a 15th century illuminated manuscript. The Los Angeles Times reports Britain's culture minister has blocked the work from leaving the country — putting it under an export embargo.

In 2015, China's GDP grew at its slowest rate in a quarter of a century, feeding expectations that new stimulus policies will be enacted. On Tuesday, containers were transported at a port in eastern China's Jiangsu province.

China Reports Slowest Economic Growth In 25 Years

Not since the fallout from the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre has China's economy grown at such a slow pace: at just below 7 percent last year.

2 People Still Unaccounted For In Utah Floods

Search crews continue to look for a missing hiker in Zion National Park and a 6-year-old boy in Hildale, a town near the Arizona border. Two bodies were recovered Wednesday.

Higher Wages And Easy Credit Likely To Spur Holiday Sales, Retailers Say

The National Retail Federation's economist and many other analysts say shoppers are in good shape to spend more this holiday season. Sales are expected to jump 3.6 percent.

Cecil the lion, photographed in 2013, was killed by a trophy hunter in Zimbabwe in 2015. Two years later, his son Xanda came to the same end nearby.

Xanda, Son Of Cecil The Lion, Also Killed

A trophy hunter shot and killed the 6-year-old lion near Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, near where his father was killed two years ago.

Fish Tales Bar & Grill, a restaurant in Ocean City, Md., tries out "bumper tables." Designed by an event production company, they're meant to allow diners to practice social distancing.

Maryland Restaurant Floats Social Distancing Dining Plan: Inner Tube Tables

Fish Tales Bar & Grill in Ocean City commissions tables for one that keep patrons 6 feet apart — that is when the restaurant can reopen. "It's like a big baby walker," owner Shawn Harman says.

Structural engineers say Japan was prepared for this week's earthquakes

Why didn't more buildings fall during the magnitude 7.6 earthquake that struck Japan this week?

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