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Many Girl Scout councils are raising the price of their popular cookies from $5 to $6 a box. The increase offers Girl Scouts and their customers a bittersweet lesson in inflation.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with the International Rescue Committee's country director of Afghanistan, Sherine Ibrahim, about the 6.0 magnitude earthquake that hit the eastern mountainous region.

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background:white">Bill Zeeble has been a full-time reporter at Dallas NPR station KERA since 1992, covering everything from medicine to the Mavericks and education to environmental issues. He’s won numerous awards over the years, with top honors from the Dallas Press Club, Texas Medical Association, the Dallas and Texas Bar Associations, the American Diabetes Association and a national health reporting grant from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Zeeble was born in Philadelphia, Pa. and grew up in the nearby suburb of Cherry Hill, NJ, where he became an accomplished timpanist and drummer. Heading to college near Chicago on a scholarship, he fell in love with public radio, working at the college classical/NPR station, and he has pursued public radio ever since.

Ramtin Arablouei is co-host and co-producer of NPR's podcast Throughline, a show that explores history through creative, immersive storytelling designed to reintroduce history to new audiences.

LaDawn Lee Fuhr is a Ph.D. student in Arkansas State University’s Heritage Studies Program. Her area of study is the preservation, protection, and promotion of heritage music and the role of public radio in the process. Fuhr has taken her research to the airwaves by creating and hosting 6 Degrees of the Delta, a music show connecting the musical roots of the Delta to all music through no more than six connections. This weekly musical journey can be heard on KASU, streaming globally through TuneIn Radio or 91.9 on the dial. She is also a graduate assistant in Heritage Studies where she works with the Delta Symposium, Arkansas Roots Music Festival, Heritage Studies projects, pens the “Delta Sources and Resources” column for the Arkansas Review, and is the liaison for special projects.

Pool hall owner Jack Allison saw a peculiar aircraft in flight over his hometown late night Sept. 18, 1964. It was large, and as he spied it from the pool…

JONESBORO – The Arkansas State University Alumni Association is announcing the recipients of its Distinguished Alumni Awards for 2019, which will be…

"I just didn't think it would take this long," one veteran head of diversity, who's been job-hunting since last summer, tells NPR.

A strong earthquake shook much of Taiwan on Sunday, toppling a three-story building, stranding about 400 tourists on a mountainside, and knocking part of a passenger train off its tracks.