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Hank Williams' 1949 hit foreshadows his untimely death four years later, at the age of 29.

Weekend Edition Saturday editor Gwendolyn Thompkins delivers the second part of her report on returning to New Orleans. Thompkins grew up in a neighborhood called Pontchartrain Park. When the levees failed after Hurricane Katrina, Lake Pontchartrain reclaimed every house as far as the eye can see.

The city of Vernon, with less than 100 legal residents, has long been controlled by just a couple of families and at one time went more than 25 years without an election. But a lawsuit and government investigations could change all that.

A jury will begin deliberations in the case of former White House aide David Safavian, the first public official to face trial in connection with the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. Safavian is accused of covering up his ties to the embattled lobbyist.

To see if kids would actually eat a new kind of white wheat bread, four Seattle kids, aged 8 to 11, volunteer to touch and sniff and taste to get a sense of whether they prefer it to regular white bread.

Sixty-three years ago today, Americans were shocked by news that a Japanese force had attacked the U.S. military base at Pearl Harbor. As NPR's John Ydstie reports, the family of a U.S. commander blamed for the attack refuses to accept the government's version of events.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera became the longest-running show in Broadway history Monday, breaking the uber-composer's own record that he set with Cats.

Commentator Kelly Beatty says that when he was growing up, space exploration was all about one thing: the race to the moon. It was easy to measure progress leading up to a specific goal. Now that space exploration is all about the planets and the solar system, there is a dizzying array of spacecraft traveling all over the place.

We asked Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael of the band Maroon 5 to share a piece of music that they love, that inspires them and that they listen to again and again. Hear why they chose Prince's Purple Rain.

Norah Jones became an immediate star after the release of her 2002 album Come Away With Me. Having sold more than 36 million records, Jones decided to move in a different direction with her new fourth album, titled The Fall. Rock critic Ken Tucker says it's an improvement over her last two.