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From Peach State Public Radio Susanna Capelouto reports that Dekalb County Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown was murdered last Friday. Brown was gunned down outside his home. Weeks before his murder Brown had ordered 38 sheriff's department employees to be fired once he gained office but there is no speculation by police officers about the motive.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on President-elect George W. Bush, who today resigned from the only political office he has ever held -- governor of Texas. The emotional speech by Bush ended 6 years at the helm in Austin and comes less than a month before he is to move to his new home at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Meanwhile, jockeying continues to go on behind the scenes for filling the remaining Cabinet slots.

Brooke Gladstone, co-host of the NPR program On the Media, reports on the national fascination with DVD players -- the DVD has penetrated the market twice as fast as the CD and almost three times faster than the VCR. The high-quality image and sound of the DVD allow home viewers to enjoy an experience much closer to the filmmaker's original vision -- special features include parts of the original film that were left out, background comments from the director or editor -- and all this is changing the average movie-goer.

NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on today's arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on whether police need a warrant before pointing a thermal imaging device at someone's home. Thermal imaging measures the amount of heat emanating from a building. In this case, it was used to find marijuana being grown indoors with strong lights.

Is it okay to wear cowboy boots with your tux at the inauguration? At the Austin-American Statesman newspaper, the "Answer Lady" Jane Greig as been fielding questions like this from Texans confused about what life in Washington will be like. In an effort to extend a warm welcome to all newcomers, we ask Greig about ways we can make Texans feel at home when they come to town.

Anthony Kuhn reports American negotiators from the U.S. - China talks on the April 1 midair collision returned home as Chinese President Jiang Zemin met with the family of the Chinese fighter pilot who died in the collision. Adding to U.S. - China tensions are the continued arrests of Chinese-Americans who are visiting China and next week's decision on U.S. arms sales to Taiwan.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports as the American crew returned to U.S. soil in Hawaii, President Bush made a statement from the White House welcoming them home. He pointedly said that the incident had not advanced constructive relations with China. And Mr. Bush stressed that the U.S. had done nothing to cause the accident with a Chinese fighter that led the American plane to make the emergency landing on Hainan Island.

Six years ago, commentator Susan McKinney met a young Mexican man in San Miguel del Allende. Before they were married, she moved into his family's house. She questions her identity as a woman in her fianci's crowded Mexican home. She is an American and she works outside the house, so she isn't allowed to do the chores that define the lives of the other women in the crowded household.

Tammy Faye Bakker and her ex-husband Jim once sat atop the Praise the Lord broadcasting empire, with a theme park, lavish homes and even a satellite. Now the remarried Tammy Faye Messner has become a remarkably popular performer with gay audiences. NPR's Neda Ulaby charts Tammy Faye's unlikely rebirth after a spectacular fall from grace.

The latest data on domestic HIV infections shows that African-Americans have a disproportionate share of new cases. Commentator Kathy Y. Wilson says that despite the gravity of the AIDS crisis in Africa, Americans need to pay more attention to the disease at home.