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Hate mistletoe, eggnog or wrapping presents? NPR's All Things Considered wants to know what holiday traditions you hate and why.

Evening Masterworks: Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quintet in c Op. 104

A new study found that melatonin gummies may contain up to three times more melatonin than advertised due to little FDA oversight.

The governor's executive order declaring a state of emergency said the fires in Woodward county are about 20% contained.

Thousands of Florida homeowners who had healthy citrus trees cut down by the state are finally going to get paid for their losses.Gov. Rick Scott on…

The Seminole Tribe of Florida plans to eliminate plastic straws at its six casinos in the state.

The hospitalized veterans at Tampa's James A. Haley VA, like many Americans on this Memorial Day, will be able to munch on burgers and hotdogs at a good…

Authorities say they've arrested a Tampa Bay area middle school student who threatened to kill his classmates, using a picture of a sinister-looking clown…

Firefighters at Walt Disney World were warned to stop feeding alligators at one of the resort's fire stations two months before an alligator killed a…

A rabies alert has been issued for Venice and North Port by the Florida Department of Health in Sarasota County after the discovery of a rabid bobcat.

Authorities say a man who had been sleeping in a Tampa commercial trash bin is recovering after nearly being crushed in the back of a garbage truck.The…

Friday's massacre at an elementary school in Connecticut has local officials on alert today.After 26 people died at Sandy Hook Elementary School,…

In this installment, we hear from married couple Jesus Benjamin and Anita May Flores.They met right before Ben went into the military. They kept in…

Addison Davis will work remotely while in quarantine.

Pinellas County’s sheriff has tested positive for the coronavirus, the agency announced on Saturday.Sheriff Bob Gualtieri’s symptoms were mild and began…

Authorities say a section of Interstate 75 known as Alligator Alley has reopened after four brush fires that eventually merged in southwest Florida caused…

A taxi driver in Las Vegas first thought the brown bag on the backseat contained chocolate. As it turned out, it was filled with something even sweeter. Six thick bundles of $100 bills. The driver handed the bag in to his office which tracked down the passenger, a well-known poker player.

NPR's Lynn Neary reports: The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution heard from supporters and opponents of the latest version of a proposed constitutional amendment. Although the measure does NOT contain specific language about school prayer, many on both sides of the issue believe it would allow some kind of prayer in the public schools, as well as religious expression in other publically-funded organizations. GOP sponsors want the U-S Constitution amended to address what they see as anti-religious bias.

NPR's Howard Berkes visits the chemical weapons stockpile near Tooele, Utah, where a factory has been set up to begin burning old nerve agent and mustard gas. There's enough chemical weaponry there to kill billions of people, some of it in leaking containers and munitions. The Army says it's time to get rid of it, but people living downwind of the plant are worried about what will blow their way.

Music reviewer Tom Manoff listens to a new recording of the eighth symphony by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich by Andrew Litton and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. He says that this symphony expresses some of the darkest mo ments in Russia's experience in World War II. (3:30) ((STEREO)) (STATIONS: The CD is "Shostakovich Symphony No.8" by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton, Conductor. It is available on Delos Records. The company can be contacted on the World Wide Web at http://www.delosmu

Robert reads from listeners' letters concerning pieces we've aired on George Washington's Farewell Address, simulated space-camp, methamphetamine use, and Susan Stamberg's remembrance of F. Scott Fitzgerald. To contact All Things Considered, write to All Things Considered Letters, 635 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington DC, 20001. To reach us via the Internet, the address is A-T-C at N-P-R dot ORG.

More than a year after letters containing anthrax spores were sent to Capitol Hill, the postal facility that processed those letters is still contaminated. But a cleanup is under way. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports.

NPR's Scott Horsley reports on the nomination of John Snow as the next treasury secretary. Snow has been chief executive officer of CSX Corporation since 1989 and board chairman since 1991. CSX is a large transportation company, based in Richmond, Va., specializing in the railway and container freight businesses. Snow's critics complain that CSX has reported no federal tax liability in three of the last four years.

The Energy Bill passed by the House Thursday includes a controversial provision that would exempt an increasingly popular drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing from regulation under the Clean Drinking Water Act. Opponents of the exemption say the technique has been known to contaminate drinking water.

With clean-up efforts underway, relief workers in southern India concentrate on removing corpses and finding potable water. Emergency workers are also trying to get drinking water to tens of thousands of survivors. Health workers worry contaminated drinking water may result in more deaths then the 7,000 the tsunami caused. Laura Womak reports.