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This is the first time since 2014 that a Texas county has sent more than one person to death row in a single year, according to a new report from the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.

"Nobody really compares" to Alan Williams number-wise, a statistician says. But the starting center for University of California, Santa Barbara, isn't widely expected to be named Player of the Year.

Film critic David Edelstein presents his top ten movies of 2006, and also discusses the best of the holiday options.

NPR Music remembers musicians — singers, songwriters, instrumentalists — and other visionaries we lost in 2016. Explore and celebrate their musical legacies.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg about a sixth teenager charged in the infamous 1989 Central Park case having his conviction overturned.

NPR's Scott Simon and ESPN's Michele Steele discuss March Madness, the new world of paid college athletes, and bobblehead crime.

Bruce Bochy has gotten his 2,195th career win to break a tie with Sparky Anderson for the sixth-most by an MLB manager. That win came when the Texas Rangers beat the Houston Astros 1-0 on Thursday night.

Simone Popperl is an editor for NPR's Morning Edition and Up First. She joined the network in March 2019, and since then has pitched and edited stories on everything from the legacy of burn pits in Iraq, to never-ending "infrastructure week," to California towns grappling with climate change, to American alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin's ascendance to the top of her sport. She led Noel King's reporting on the early days of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, Steve Inskeep's reporting from swing states in the lead up to the 2020 Presidential Election, and Leila Fadel's field reporting from Kentucky on the end of Roe v. Wade.

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom: Former McKinney police officer EricCasebolt's lawyer told his side of the story. And the funky…

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom: Helping those with mental illness manage their social security benefits, and building a bond…