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Monday, August 26, 2024 at 6 pm | Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre | Charlotte, NC

Join us starting at 6pm on New Year's Eve as we rebroadcast the 2023 Warren Haynes Christmas Pre-Jam!

Tokyo-area hospitals "have their hands full," the Tokyo Medical Practitioners Association says in an open letter to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. The group represents some 6,000 primary care doctors.

Tonight at 9 pm, at the conclusion of Cosmic American Music Show, one lucky winner will receive an autographed vinyl LP of Loretta Lynn's "Still Woman Enough", released earlier this year. Then at 11 pm, when Rhythm Theorem wraps up, another lucky listener will win an Aretha Franklin box set. And, of course that is all after we draw the winner of a kayak at 6pm!!

NPR's Steve Inskeep profiles Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords, a moderate Republican who cast a crucial vote against President Bush's $1.6 trillion tax cut proposal. Sen. Jeffords' tie-breaking ability on close votes in the evenly divided Senate gives him considerable influence. He used it to help reduce the size of the tax cut by about a fourth and divert more than $200 billion of it to pay for special education. Jeffords was just re-elected and has received less criticism in his home-state than from conservative Republicans in Washington, D.C.

Rolling Stone calls Walker “one of country’s most fascinating young songwriters, a baby-faced 6XL guitar hero who writes deep-dive character studies about lost souls, truck-stop prostitutes, and D.B. Cooper.” His latest album “See You Next Time” includes that catchy hit “Sexy After Dark”, and he and his band will join Spencer in Studio B before heading to The Grey Eagle in Asheville for their Monday night show.

More than 1.6 million American children were homeless at some point in 2010, the nonprofit National Center on Family Homelessness reports today.

Fauja Singh, who completed a marathon at the age of 100, participated in his last race Sunday. He finished the 6.2-mile course in Hong Kong in 1 hour, 32 minutes and 28 seconds.

The owner of the Nutshell Pub asked customer Adam Thurkette if he'd mind staying away during busy hours. Adam is 6 foot 7. And the Nutshell is reportedly Britain's smallest pub — 15 feet by 7 feet. The owner says Adam takes up too much room.

The rate at which American women are having babies fell again in 2011, continuing a decline that's been under way for years. Births to teenagers hit another low, while births to older women rose slightly.