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posed to homes and businesses in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Arkansas by the illegal, indoor use of an agricultural pesticide. Nearly a thousand people have been moved out of their homes because methyl parathion was sprayed inside to kill cockroaches.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from Sarajevo that another suburb that was once home to Serbs has been handed over to the Muslim-Croat Federation. Muslims from Sarajevo are slowly moving back to Ilidza (ill-EE-juh), returning to homes they abandoned four years ago. Security is provided by by NATO troops along with Muslim and Croat police.

NPR's Mandalit Delbarco reports on fires that have destroyed dozens of homes throughout Southern California. Fires in the San Diego area, and outside Los Angeles, scared residents who'd been through catastrophic wildfires in 1993, but this year some safety measures--such as clearing brush around homes--may have helped reduce the number of damaged structures.

In the second of two reports on the reinvention of the nursing home, NPR's Joseph Shapiro visits Tupelo, Miss., to see if the way a nursing home looks can change the way people live. The experiment is based on a concept called the Green House Project.

A divided Supreme Court rules that local governments may seize people's homes and businesses against their will for economic development. The 5-4 decision was a defeat for Connecticut residents whose homes were due to be demolished to make way for an office complex.

For many along the Gulf Coast, the holiday season brought a welcome chance to see family. But it didn't stop efforts to rebuild homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Between events, the Bordelon family has been stripping out and cleaning up their two-story home in their St. Bernard neighborhood.

Secretary of State Corey Stapleton says he’s sending ballots to state lawmakers “as soon as possible,” for whether a special legislative session should...

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen has joined a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over changes to immigration policy.

Many people across Africa are celebrating Barak Obama's inauguration. Nowhere was the celebration greater than in Kenya, homeland of the new president's father.