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  • If you return a book late to the Midtown Carnegie Branch Library in Springfield, Mo., the late fines cannot exceed $5. Whoever returned a book nearly four decades too late left $6, just to be safe.
  • The satirists at The Onion had a field day with his vigor. In fact, Mayor Bill de Blasio even read from the article for the City Hall press corps.
  • In Merrimack, a warrant has been issued for the weather prognosticating groundhog. Police say that Phil predicted winter would last 6 more weeks, but didn't mention anything about all the snow.
  • NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg presents the second installment in her series on Great Cities. Today, a look at Chicago, rated by Money magazine to be America's most livable city in the Midwest. Susan finds out why one native, 14-year-old Eve Ewing, likes her city so much. For more on the city, check out the Money magazine Web site. And be sure to check out the Utne Reader's Web site for the article -- 'The 10 Most Underrated Towns in America.' (6:56 -
  • Host Bob Edwards talks to Edward Goldberg, Director of the Medici Archive Project, about his work with the Medici family archive in Florence, Italy. The archive is a collection of virtually every letter sent or received by the Medici court during its rule from the mid-1500s to the mid-1700s. The correspondence reveals a great deal about Italian art and early modern European history. Goldberg and his colleagues are documenting and digitizing each letter, and hope to have the project complete by 2012. (6:28) For more on the project, check out our Medici Archive Web page.
  • This Tiny Desk Contest entry is a psychedelic invocation of the "sombra en el cielo" ("shadow in the sky") that takes us to the afterlife.
  • The fast food chain's Travis Scott meal is just a Quarter Pounder with the rapper's favorites: cheese, bacon, lettuce, fries, BBQ sauce and a Sprite. The cost is $6.
  • Join Public Radio 90 this November for a virtual discussion about grief.Public Radio 90, The New York Life Foundation and New York Life Agent Michael…
  • A password management company estimates 3 million users pick one of the following passwords: 1,2,3,4,5,6. Password. iloveyou. NordPass says each of these passwords could be cracked in under a second.
  • Bounding onto a field in Australia's capital, the marsupial caused players to scatter and then wait around for a grand exit.
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