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A new film about Cincinnati's legendary jazz sax man, Jimmy McGary , will be shown at Walnut Hills' Caffe Vivace on April 25, as well as at the New York...

More than two dozen people applied for the post of Columbus police chief, according to documents released by the city Wednesday.

A federal judge sentences al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui to life in prison, following a jury's finding Wednesday. In court, Moussaoui declared victory over the United States. But Judge Leonie Brinkema told him that everyone else in the courtroom would live free, Moussaoui would spend life in prison.

The death toll from a shootout at a school in Beslan, Russia, rises to more than 300, and is likely to go higher. Details of the showdown differ. Russian troops exchanged fire with Chechen rebels who had taken hundreds of children hostage. Hear NPR's Scott Simon and NPR's Lawrence Sheets.

A ceremony in New York City commemorates the placement of a 20-ton granite cornerstone at the site of the destroyed World Trade Center towers. The stone is part of the replacement skyscraper called the Freedom Tower. We hear from John Foy, who attended today's ceremony and whose mother-in-law died in the attacks.

The city will fund nonprofits that are starting or growing youth programs focused on education, arts, financial literacy or workforce development.

Wilberforce University names a new president, Dr. Vann Newkirk.

The man believed to be the second in command of al-Qaida in Iraq has been captured. Hamed Farid al-Saeedi is believed to have masterminded countless attacks, including the bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samara earlier this year. Iraqi officials say the arrest is a major blow to terrorists in the country.

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