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The Army Corps of Engineers began opening Louisiana's Morganza spillway on Saturday in an attempt to spare New Orleans and Baton Rouge from massive flooding. That move will send almost a third of the water in the Mississippi River spilling out into massive swaths of Cajun country in the next few days. Host Guy Raz gets the latest from NPR's Greg Allen, who's at the spillway.

To ease fiscal troubles, Half Moon Bay — a California seaside town — has made big cuts, disbanding departments and laying off half its workforce. The police department is on the verge of closing, making the town dependent on the local sheriff's office for the first time in 50 years.

This week on Morning Edition, NPR will be airing Money Counts: Young Adults And Financial Literacy, a five-day series examining the relationship between young people and their finances.

In the midst of typically unrealistic summer wedding comedy fare, Bridesmaids sets itself apart by portraying female characters who are allowed to behave like human beings.

May is the month when teachers win awards and have their appreciation week, but tight budgets and campaigns against public employees have lots of teachers feeling anything but appreciated. NPR's Matt Colburn reports.

Whitewater cascaded through the gate of the Morganza Floodway in Louisiana Sunday, part of an emergency effort to save Baton Rouge and New Orleans from the rising Mississippi River.

Israeli soldiers opened fire Sunday on Arab protesters along the country's borders, killing at least 16 people and wounding dozens in an unprecedented wave of demonstrations marking a Palestinian day of mourning for their defeat at Israel's hands in 1948.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was widely expected to be the presidential candidate of France's Socialist Party a year from now, was already a frontrunner in opinion polls. On Saturday, New York police pulled him off a plane headed to Paris and accused him of sexually assaulting a hotel maid.

In their new book, Chasing Aphrodite, journalists Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino tell the story of dozens of illicitly acquired antiquities at one of the world's wealthiest museums. The J. Paul Getty Museum of Los Angeles ended up returning 40 looted objects — including the goddess of love.

The "Diplomatic Softball League" begins it 2011 season Saturday, April 30th. The softball league has been around for over a decade in Berlin and has 16 nationalities represented. Though begun by mostly expats from the American and Canadian embassies, the league's commissioner Sheldon Eisenhower, says it's a very "multi-kulti affair."