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A Houston-area high school senior bags a 14-foot beast that could be 50 years old, setting a new record for the largest alligator ever caught in Texas.

Fans of auto racing in Poland rented 21 cranes and parked them outside the speedway in Lublin to get a view of the race. They had the view from the cheap seats — at the price of the best ones.

BioPark Zoo closed because of the pandemic. Employees there decided to raise money through The Art Gone Wild project, where people can buy "knockoff" artwork painted by the animals.

The four-legged yellow robot will patrol a park in Singapore to help enforce social distancing. And he practices what he preaches. The robo-pup has sensors to keep him from getting too close.

Despite the chill in the air today, the stream of people wanting to walk the trails at the two nature preserves has been steady. Michelle Franzetti, the…

On Monday evening, 10 year old Rodney McAllister went to a city park across from his home in St. Louis, Mo. The next morning he was found under a pine tree, mauled to death by stray dogs. McAllister's mother, Gladys Loman, was charged with a misdemeanor for endagering the welfare of a child. Animal control officers rounded up nine stray dogs by late Tuesday. Robert Siegel talks with Greg Jonsson, a reporter for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, about the mauling case and what animal control officials are doing to prevent a similar attack.

NPR asked reporters in Dallas, Chicago and Boston talk to voters about what they think of the tax cut plan that President Bush sent to Congress today. Wade Goodwyn found a lot of support for the plan at the upscale North Park Mall in Dallas. NPR's Mary Ann Akers found mixed reviews of the tax plan at a state office building in Chicago. NPR's' Anthony Brooks visited Boston's financial district. He found support for the tax cut among people in the financial services business. But more average voters wondered whether the money would be better spent on such programs as Social Security and Medicare.

A thousand doctors joined a program to prescribe time in national parks. People suffering anxiety or depression get a nature prescription, which also helps with chronic disease like diabetes.

With commercial airlines struggling to cut costs, they often pull aircraft out of service, putting them into storage at places like the Pinal Air Park in the Arizona desert. There, rows and rows of airliners sit baking in the sun, their windows taped against wind-blown dust. Workers at the facility periodically start the planes' engines, much the same way one would start an old Volvo in the driveway to keep it from seizing up.

The 14 Marines killed in Iraq and the six killed Monday all belonged to the same Ohio-based battalion. The Headquarters & Services Company, 25th Marine Regiment, 3rd battalion is headquartered in Brook Park, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. Renita Jablonski of member station WCPN reports.