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The Stryker Brigade soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state have been charged with premeditated murder in the slaying of three Afghan civilians in Kandahar province earlier this year, the Army said Wednesday.

April 3 marks the 150th birthday of the Pony Express. The short-lived mail-relay system was a financial disaster doomed by the telegraph, but its thrilling story, which is often cloaked in myth, remains part of American folklore.

Just as the Mississippi River settles after washing out swaths of the South, the flooding elsewhere has just begun: A raging Missouri River in the northern Plains now will threaten parts of the Midwest well into the summer.

For the most part, these are grim days for Catholic nuns. Convents are closing, nuns are aging and there are relatively few new recruits. But in Nashville, Tenn., the conservative Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia are seeing a boom in young recruits. The average age of new entrants is 23.

When a 32-year-old woman's naked body was found hanging from a historic Southern California mansion's balcony, investigators were quick to say they weren't ruling out suicide.

The cases of cholera in Haiti continue to climb, albeit more slowly than they did last week. The Ministry of Health and western aid groups are spreading out across the country preaching a gospel of clean hands, cleaner drinking water and what to do if you get sick.

The Food and Drug Administration is meeting Wednesday and Thursday to examine whether artificial food dyes cause hyperactivity in children. Recent studies have drawn this link, causing some experts to call on the FDA to ban the dyes — or at least require a warning label.

There are some nicely wrapped cinematic gifts as well as expensive coal in area theaters this holiday season. We'll ask our critics about the new Coen brothers movie "True Grit," see how "Tron" stacks up as a sequel, and find out if the hype is deserved for "The King's Speech."

KPBS Radio will broadcast these holiday specials throughout the month of December. View the complete list of programs and air dates.

Just in the last four years mail volume is down 20 percent, so the agency is struggling to reinvent itself. That could mean layoffs, post office closures and possibly the end of Saturday delivery.