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For years now, radio drama has been totally eclipsed by film and television. However, every now and then, the art form pops up to remind us of the ways in which radio can spark the imagination. The MFA playwriting students from the acclaimed theater department at UCSD have written four very contemporary radio dramas and we will hear them and talk with the scribes.

The state Public Utilities Commission essentially rejected SDG&E's controversial emergency power shut-off plan earlier this week. The PUC said it will make a final decision on the plan in September.

Retired federal judge Michael Mukasey is now the nation's 81st attorney general, filling a vacancy left when Alberto Gonzales resigned amid questions about his credibility. A bitterly divided Senate voted 53-to-40 to confirm Michael Mukasey late Thursday night.

Rudolph Giuliani will speak at The National Rifle Association conference. The GOP presidential frontrunner advocates the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms on the campaign trail, but as mayor of New York City his stance may have been a bit different.

With the swine flu virus more widespread than ever and concerns about availability of the vaccine circulating, we solicited your questions about the pandemic. NPR's health editors teamed up with experts to tackle your questions.

The four-day Muslim holiday Eid ul Adha comes to an end. The holiday begins after the completion of Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. This Eid is the busiest time of year for an unlikely business: a North Texas butcher shop.

America is the number one producer and consumer of child pornography in the world. We speak to people who are working to protect children from internet crimes.

Americans Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver Smithies and Sir Martin J. Evans of Britain won the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for devising the tools to figure out what individual genes do and how to fix them. The widely used process has helped scientists use mice to study heart disease, diabetes, cancer, cystic fibrosis and other diseases.

A shark attacked and killed a swimmer training in the ocean off San Diego County with a group of local triathletes early Friday, authorities said. The shark was believed to be a great white.

The oldest rough water swim in California took place today. More than 400 people hit the water for the 78th annual swim around the pier in Oceanside. KPBS reporter Alison St John was there.