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After Superstorm Sandy, the James family searched for Reckless for months. They went to the dog shelter last week to adopt a new pet, and there was Reckless in the first cage.

Also: A new survey finds expensive colleges don't make people happier; the American Legion wants VA Secretary Shinseki to resign over health care problems; and a long-lost Mendelssohn song is found.

She says the gunmen claimed to be soldiers who had come to help girls abducted last month. It wasn't until the men stole food and set fire to a school that the girls were certain they were in trouble.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force says there's not enough evidence to know if routine testing for cognitive impairment in older people helps or hurts. So patients have to decide on their own.

As The Mindy Project wraps its second season, Mindy enthusiast Jessica Daniels says it's time for Dr. Lahiri to get past the need to reshape herself for her boyfriends.

On the 60th anniversary of Roger Bannister's sub-4-minute mile, we pause to appreciate some lesser-known, far more nauseating mile achievements: the beer mile, the burrito mile and the naked mile.

A skit about slavery by Saturday Night Live's Leslie Jones outraged many of the show's black viewers. NPR television critic Eric Deggans talks about the joke and the backlash.

The Alabama quintet grew out of a weekly jam session to become a bona fide Americana supergroup. Hear the band perform a concert, recorded live in West Virginia.

In 1986, a bomb planted by the Peruvian terrorist group Shining Path exploded in the luggage rack above Sam Baker. Somehow, during his long recovery, songs focused on empathy started coming to him.

This month, Tori Amos returns to the world of piano-driven pop with her best album in 20 years. Hear her brand new song "16 Shades of Blue" and more on the latest episode of All Songs Considered.