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Chris Hoskin of member station WFAE reports that an early morning fire at a nursing home in Laurinburg, North Carolina killed eight elderly men. Law enforcement officials are blaming an uncovered electrical outlet. They say smoke inhalation claimed most of the victims.

Twelve days ago citizens of Weyauwega, [wy-uh-WEE-guh] Wisconsin were evacuated from their homes following the derailment of railroad cars carrying fourteen propane tankers. Wisconsin Public Radio's Gil Halsted reports on life at a hotel where more than fifty evacuated families have been staying.

Commentator Reynolds Price jabs at the frivolity of some consumer products popping up on the gadget market place. Not to be out done by the makers of battery powered pepper grinders, Price has a few product ideas of his own: home liposuction, the flesh zipper, and the calorie-exchange switch.

- NPR's Pat Dowell reports on the death of the 28-year old Biograph Theater of Washington, DC. Like other movie theaters across the nation, the Biograph achieved success by showing classic, independent,and foreign films in the days before the home videocassette machine.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports from Atlanta on a group of high school students who travelled to that city after being promised work and housing at the Olympic games. Once they got there, they found neither, and now city officials are trying to figure out how to send them home.

Frankie Lewchuk lives in a small town in the southern Appalachian mountains in Alabama. His dad was on the run from the law for 16 years, but he's out of prison and back home now. Producer Joe Richman helps bring us another in our series of teen diaries, with Frankie's story.

Actress Marie Windsor, known as 'Queen of the B-Movies,' died at her home in Beverly Hills on Sunday, the day before her 81st birthday. Windsor appeared in more than 70 movies and as a guest star on numerous TV shows.

This week the Chinese will usher in their New Year by traveling home to be with family. NPR's Rob Gifford reports on what may be the world's largest annual movement of humanity.

In Mexico, a way of life is vanishing for some of that country's railworkers and their families --converting boxcars into trailer-homes. It's a system once supported by the Mexican government before privatization, and now one of the few remaining encampments still survives north of Mexico City. NPR's Gerry Hadden reports.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports on reactions to the verdict in the Lockerbie bombing trial earlier this week. In Libya, the acquitted defendant was personally welcomed home by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.