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Writer and commentator Jimi Izrael offers his views on New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's comments about welcoming black residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina back to their "chocolate city" -- a city Nagin said God himself wants to preserve as a majority-black area. Nagin has since distanced himself from those comments.

After 150 years, the era of the telegram came to a quiet end last week. Romanticized in film and song, the hand-delivered paper messages were made useless by telephones and e-mail.

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan will preside over his last interest-rate meeting Tuesday after more than 18 years in the post. Waiting in the wings is his successor, economist Ben Bernanke. Steve Inskeep talks with David Wessel, deputy Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal.

Grandmothers, charity volunteers, a former police officer, and a devoted sister. These are some of the stories of the people killed at a grocery store in Buffalo.

A deadline set by kidnappers of American reporter Jill Carroll passed Friday with no word of her fate. Other Americans are also being held hostage in Iraq, including peace activist Tom Fox.

Esera Tuaolo played many years in the National Football League while hiding a secret from teammates: he's gay. He tells Liane Hansen about his memoir of the experience: Alone in the Trenches.

In 1989, a girl from the projects stepped into a Karaoke booth at a mall and sang an Anita Baker tune. Today it's Mary J. Blige's songs the young girls sing. She tells Debbie Elliott about her latest CD, The Breakthrough.

Where has your stuff gone, Joe DiMaggio? It turns out many collectibles from the late Yankee baseball icon's memorable life are going on the auction block in New York City.

Exxon Mobil's reports fourth-quarter profits of $10.7 billion, up 27 percent over the same quarter in 2004. It's a company record and one of the largest quarterly profits in U.S. history. The company's robust earnings have attracted strong criticism and calls for a windfall profits tax.

Enron founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeff Skilling go on trial Monday in Houston. Federal prosecutors will argue that Enron's top executives misled and defrauded investors through deals and statements designed to conceal growing losses at what was once the world's largest energy trading company.