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As the Mayor's Conference takes place in Washington D.C., city governments are dealing with severe problems at home — from high unemployment to funding cuts. Steve Inskeep talks to Mick Cornett, the Mayor of Oklahoma City, about how his city has managed to avoid some of these problems.

More than 20 people are still missing. The Costa Concordia hit some rocks on Friday and listed over on it starboard side. Eleven deaths have been confirmed. There were about 4,200 passengers and crew onboard.

A high price for pecans this season has led to a spike in pecan theft. New Mexico farmer Greg Daviet totes a gun and hires security guards this time of year to deter thieves from stepping foot in his orchards.

It's been a contest of surprises, with a series of candidates rising to the top to fill the anybody-but-Romney role. So it really shouldn't come as a surprise that on the day of the first-in-the-South primary in South Carolina, it's uncertain what the outcome will be or what comes next.

This past week, the twin anti-piracy bills known as SOPA and PIPA were dealt perhaps a fatal blow by a popular uprising instigated by major technology companies. Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz speaks with James Fallows of The Atlantic about the ongoing battle between Hollywood and Silicon Valley.

Four teams remain in the NFL playoffs. In the National Conference, the New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers; in the American Conference, the New England Patriots and Baltimore Ravens. Both pairs face off Sunday to determine who reaches Super Bowl XLVI. Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz speaks with NPR's Mike Pesca about the games and which outcome might make for the most intriguing Super Bowl matchup.

Every few years, official clocks around the world repeat a second. It's not much, but in an age of atomic clocks it's time enough to give the matter a second thought.

House Speaker Newt Gingrich won easily as the wild race for the GOP nomination got even wilder.

It's been said that if a candidate wins the South Carolina primary, he wins the party's nomination. But winning the state's vote sometimes means getting dirty.

Newt Gingrich has beaten Mitt Romney in South Carolina. The question now becomes whether he can pull off that trick enough times in enough states to deny Romney the Republican presidential nomination.