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Three days after tornadoes hit Alabama, people are trying to cope. While the damage and destruction in Tuscaloosa and Birmingham have received plenty of attention, many of the state's smaller communities, also blitzed by tornadoes, have their own challenges. NPR's Kathy Lohr reports.

They've been developing underground for 13 years, and now billions of Brood 19 cicadas are set to emerge with a bang, or a buzz in states including Georgia, South Carolina and Oklahoma. American Entomologist Editor-in-Chief Gene Kritsky lays out what we can expect with host Linda Wertheimer.

The U.S. Postal Service debuted its Gregory Peck stamp as part of the Legends of Hollywood series this week. The stamp premiers just as a new documentary called Hey Boo also comes out. The film is about how To Kill A Mockingbird, which starred Peck, has influenced generations of Americans. NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates reports.

Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase with AT in the middle. The letter A ends the first word of the phrase, and the letter T begins the second word. For the clue, "trying out of something while changes are still being made," the answer would be "beta test."

In Mexico's drug war, children are getting increasingly sucked into the violent narcotics trade. Middle-school-age kids are working for the cartels as couriers, lookouts and even assassins. Others are being killed, injured or orphaned in the crossfire.

After losing an election for senior class president, the former Utah governor and U.S. ambassador to China dropped out of high school and joined a rock band — not your typical path into Republican presidential politics. But friends and colleagues say Huntsman hasn't often done things by the book.

Bethel Baptist Church near Tuscaloosa, Ala., was flattened by tornadoes last week. Now, the church is preparing to meet Sunday in a park auditorium to help members of its congregation. Andrew Yeager of member station WBHM reports.

The beatification of Pope John Paul II has sparked both celebration and controversy among Catholics in the U.S. and around the world. Host Liane Hansen talks with John Allen, senior correspondent of the National Catholic Reporter in Rome, about reactions to the beatification of Pope John Paul II and what it means for the popular pope's legacy.

In the early 1990s, the political establishment in Wasilla, Alaska, enlisted Palin as a moderate counterweight to the growing anti-government, anti-tax movement. The establishment ended up regretting it.

Last week we took a look at rising gas prices with John Hofmeister, former CEO of the Shell Oil Company. Host Scott Simon also interviewed Philip Connors, who worked as a fire lookout over the Gila National Forest in New Mexico. Host Linda Wertheimer reads listeners' e-mails and comments.