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  • President Bush is in Dallas to address the Knights of Columbus in Dallas, a conservative Catholic group with 1.6 million members. The visit is part of an aggressive Bush campaign effort to win Catholic voters, who make up one-quarter of the electorate. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and Tom Roberts of the National Catholic Reporter.
  • This year, Dolena Fox joined the 6% of professional American women pilots.
  • Western New York routinely gets buried with lake effect snow. This year the area saw one of the most extreme snowfalls on record, with 6.5 feet.
  • We kick off our series on country music in time for the Labor Day holiday with Martie Maguire, Emily Robison and Natalie Maines. They are considered the biggest-selling female band in history, but found themselves boycotted in 2003 when Maines made an off-the-cuff remark about President Bush on the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. In June, they released their first CD in three years, Taking the Long Way. (Original air date: June 6, 2006)
  • 6PPD is a rubber stabilizing chemical that spreads onto roads and makes its way into rivers where it is poisoning fish, including the coho salmon.
  • The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 long ideological lines that the First Amendment bars Colorado from “forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees.”
  • In 2000, the muscular, 6-feet-10-inch NBA star was diagnosed with a rare, life-threatening kidney disease. Alonzo Mourning made a full recovery following a transplant. Now, he's written a memoir about the obstacles he had to overcome on the road back to the NBA.
  • Intelligence officials testified that Russia is among at least 30 nations that are developing capabilities to launch cyberattacks.
  • Geologists are looking into causes of the rapid collapse of a hillside that resulted in the massive weekend mudslide.
  • Purdue head football coach Jeff Brohm has decided to stay in West Lafayette. Brohm, who'd been rumored as the top pick to fill the coaching vacancy at his…
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