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A county school board in Kentucky says a Christian theme park with a 500-foot-long Noah's Ark is not paying enough in property taxes.Grant County's school…

Eric Rudolph's decision to plead guilty to the 1996 Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta and three other attacks ends a long saga for law-enforcement officers. Rudolph was a fugitive for more than five years. CNN producer Henry Schuster and Charles Stone, former head of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation talk about the chase. They're the authors of the book Hunting Eric Rudolph.

While wolves are an endangered species throughout the country, in Alaska they number in the thousands and are still legally hunted. Saturday marked the end of the Alaskan wolf-hunting season, which proved traumatic for the Toklat wolves of Denali National Park, some of the most studied and photographed wolves in the world.

Families choosing open adoption don't just gain a son or daughter -- they gain an extended family that includes a birth mother and sometimes aunts and grandparents. For one adoptive family in Overland Park, Kan., building and keeping those ties is not as complicated as it sounds. NPR's Greg Allen reports.

New York's Central Park was the scene of demonstrations Sunday as activists protested Republican policies in advance of the party's national convention, which begins Monday. Organizers of a march called "Billionaires for Bush" are among the groups hoping to confront party supporters when the sessions begin. Hear NPR's Jennifer Ludden, NPR's Margot Adler and NPR's Nancy Solomon.

It has killed more than 100 Americans so far -- and the West Nile virus is taking a similar toll at U.S. zoos. Many exotic animals are on the casualty list, and experts fear the mosquito-borne illness will strike a species already in danger of extinction. For Morning Edition, NPR's John Nielsen visits Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo to find out more.

The extent of the damage to museums, parks, galleries and theaters in areas affected by Katrina is not yet known. Leaders in the arts and cultural communities are starting to take stock of what survived.

NPR's David Schaper reports on state-of-the-art bike storage that's just opened in a downtown Chicago park. It's getting many commuters onto bicycles now that they have a secure place to store their wheels as well as a club atmosphere in which to shower and change into work clothes.

The novel Challenger Park has at its heart the story of an astronaut who find her marriage coming apart. The book gained fresh attention after the arrest of Capt. Lisa Nowak, the shuttle astronaut who allegedly attacked a romantic rival this week.

Composer and writer Allen Shawn is the author of the new memoir, Wish I Could Be There. The book documents his many phobias. Shawn is deathly afraid of a lot of things, including heights, water, fields, parking lots and unknown streets.