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When 11-year-old Kahlo Smith found out she couldn't enter Three-Minute Fiction she wanted to why.

The Australian is angry that his government hasn't supported him over the WikiLeaks release of hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. government files. He remains under house arrest in England, fighting extradition to Sweden, where he's accused of two sex crimes.

At the height of the housing crisis, low-income Americans had many opportunities to buy a home with the help of subprime mortgages, which proved to be disastrous. But those battered by the crisis continue to find paths to home ownership, despite financial disincentives.

Host Rachel Martin speaks with Yale professor Robert Shiller about the challenges facing would-be, first-time home buyers, including stringent mortgage loan standards and record levels of student loan debt. Shiller's home price indices, developed originally with Karl Case, are now published as the Standard & Poor's/Case Shiller Home Price Index.

The rural community of Obion County, Tenn., was thrust into the spotlight when firefighters refused to extinguish a house fire two years ago because the owner hadn't paid the required $75 fee to the city Fire Department. Chad Lampe of member station WKMS reports city leaders have finally made a change.

Residents of Illinois and Louisiana this week have been bombarded by TV ads attacking one or another presidential candidate, the vast majority of them funded by superPACs, groups that run TV ads like a regular candidate's campaign, but legally have nothing to do with the candidate they support. Tuesday night, they must file a report detailing who gave them money and how they spent it. Host Rachel Martin talks with NPR's S.V. Dáte.

The madness marches on. Sunday holds eight more games in the NCAA Division 1 men's basketball tournament. On Saturday, thankfully, there were no major rip-up-your-bracket upsets, but there was plenty of drama.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma National Guard says a ceremony scheduled for Sunday for soldiers returning from deployments to Afghanistan and Kuwait…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded $126,523 in housing counseling grants to six organizations in…

Bands of showers and thunderstorms will likely be ongoing across portions of eastern Oklahoma Monday morning. This activity will spread east into…