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Wilmington, Ohio, was devastated in 2008 when German air cargo shipper DHL announced it was going to close its U.S. hub based there. David C. Barnett of WCPN reports on how the city is faring now.

The first survey of 2014 found that the Sierra Nevada snowpack is 20 percent of what it should be at this time of the year, which could have a huge impact on the state's water supply.

Gov. Peter Shumlin spent nearly his entire State of the State Address talking about heroin and prescription opiate abuse in the state. He joins us to discuss the problem and what he's doing about it.

Eric Deggans explains how HBO's new crime drama anthology with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson lured its stars with a combination of a great script and a limited commitment.

After devoting the past several years to theater acting, Cate Blanchett starred this past summer in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine, for which she's been nominated for a Golden Globe. She spoke with NPR's Robert Siegel about the similarities between theater and film — and the need for lightness in even the darkest drama.

If you know the right people — and if you can get other criminals to vouch for you — you can go online and buy huge bundles of stolen credit cards. As it turns out, Planet Money knows the right people.

Speaks became acting White House press secretary after President Ronald Reagan and Press Secretary James Brady were shot in a 1981 assassination attempt — and held the position for six years. He was 74.

The composer and bandleader made his first recordings in the late 1940s. In the decades since, Heath has played with and written for everyone from Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie to Miles Davis and Milt Jackson.

Artist Orion Martin recently posted several images reimagining X-Men characters as people of color. This touched off a conversation about race in comic book worlds, and how these comic book depictions relate to real life.

Laurie Halse Anderson's latest young adult novel, The Impossible Knife of Memory, follows 15-year-old Hayley and her dad, who suffers from PTSD after serving in Iraq. Anderson says the book draws on her own experience of growing up with a World War II veteran father who still struggles with his war memories.