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State health officials confirm Montana’s first hantavirus infection of the year recently sickened a Richland County resident. The adult male fell ill...

The al-Hol camp is home to more than 60,000 displaced people, including many children as well as supporters and victims of ISIS.

The family honored 16-year-old Frankie by cremating him and keeping his ashes. Days later, Frankie walked home — hungry and thin, but very much alive. Whose cat is in the urn?

This coming Saturday, voters in Bosnia go to the polls as part of the effort to put their war-torn country back together. They'll be choosing men and women to represent them in a collective presidency, a house of representatives, assemblies for both the Muslim-Croat federation and Serb Republic, and councils for each canton. Linda talks about the upcoming election with NPR's Sylvia Poggioli in the northwest Bosnian city of Banja Luka ((BAHN-yuh LOO-kuh)). Banja Luka is home to the opposition parties who will contend for the vote with the nationalist party running the Serb Republic.

While Netanyahu and Arafat met in Washington, Palestinians and Israelis at home have been talking about their leaders in the wake of last week's outbreak of violence in the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem. From Gaza, NPR's Eric Weiner reports that though Arafat's prestige had been eroded, his standing has risen among Palestinian voters. From Jerusalem, NPR's Linda Gradstein talks to one of Netanyahu's so-called "swing voters" from last May's elections, and finds that she would still vote for Netanyahu today... despite the policies that helped bring about last week's clashes.

about the aftermath of Hurricane Fran in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. Rains from the storm caused the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers to overflow their banks and flood the town. Harper's Ferry has a rich history, and today is home to several museums and historic buildings. But before the floods, National Park Service employees took the preemptive step of removing and preserving thousands of artifacts from the town's museums.

Noah talks with Blaine Harden, of the Washington Post, about his new book "A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia." Harden was born in Moses Lake, in eastern Washington state, a town set amidst farmland irrigated by Columbia River water. He went back home to travel the length of the Columbia, to learn about the barges, the hydroelectric dams, and the disappearing salmon. Harden says the salmon of the Columbia are threatened with extinction because of the dams, and a way of life for local Native Americans has been ruined as well. A compromise is possible if the flow schedules on the river are reversed, allowing the baby salmon to get downstream in spring, but electric power rates would go up in the Pacific Northwest. (Published by W.W. Norton and Co.)

Robert talks with reporter Mike Mc Phee of the Denver Post. They discuss the details of the Jonbenet (JAWN-buh-NAY) Ramsey case. The six-year-old Jonbenet...a regular contestant in beauty pageants and the winner of the 1995 Little Miss Colorado competition...was found murdered in her Boulder, Colorado home on the day after Christmas, and the case has attracted worldwide attention. Police say they still have no suspects in the case. The actions of the child's parents have drawn intense scrutiny...they have both hired lawyers and a media consultant...and they are expected to give statements to the police soon. Meanwhile, the town of Boulder is trying to cope with the tragedy.

NPR's David Welna reports from Tijuana (tee-HWAH na), home to Mexico's number two cartel, entry point for huge amounts of drugs headed for the U.S., and the scene of widespread police corruption. The Arellano Felix (ah-ray-AH-no FAY-lix) brothers, considered Mexico's most violent drug gang, run their cocaine cartel out of Tijuana. The Arellanos don't seem to fear arrest. They've paid off large numbers of police and other officials, and eight senior anti-drug officials who worked in Tijuana have been murdered.

Laurie Neff reports from Jerusalem on Israel's decision today to go head with the construction of a large housing project in disputed east Jerusalem. That decision was made despite U.S. misgivings and a Palestinain warning of violence. The Har Homa project will place 6,500 homes for Jews in an area claimed by Palestinians as their future capital. Paelstinians see the move as Israel's attempt to solidify its claim over all of Jerusalem before final status talks on the future of the city can be held. Israel says it simply needs more housing for all the people who want to live in Jerusalem, and has pledged to build 3,000 units of arab housing near Har Homa as well.