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NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that a jury in Brooklyn has ordered computer maker Digital Equipment to pay nearly $6 million to three women who suffered disabling injuries from working on Digital's computer keyboards. Lawyers for the plaintiffs say this is the first time such a suit has succeeded. Digital says it will appeal the decision.

Commentator Reynolds Price has just had his annual MRI to check for cancer. He finds a strange kind of peace inside the close quarters of the 6 foot long tube in the radiology department --reciting the contents of his longterm memory: prayers and poems and sonnets. He was again free of cancer this year.

The U.S. unemployment rate rises to 6 percent in November, startling many economists. Some analysts say the development is evidence the economy has slowed since the summer. NPR's Jack Speer reports.

A new book subtitled A Faaabbbulous Visit with Andy Warhol tells the unexpectedly normal visit Andy's nephew James and his family paid in 1962 to Warhol's New York loft. Aug. 6 would have been Warhol's 75th birthday. Karen Michel reports.

The Labor Department reported grim economic news on Friday. Employers eliminated 598,000 jobs in January — the most since 1974. Cost-cutting employers are in no mood to hire. The unemployment rates stands at 7.6 percent.

Alito flies a Jan. 6 flag? Red Lobster files for bankruptcy.

The Wichita City Council have approved water and sewer rate increases for 2015. As KMUW’s Sean Sandefur reports, the decision will hit industrial users…

Monday 6.18.18Night Train continues the June Caribbean American Heritage Month feature with music from Jamaican-born artists Monty Alexander, Dizzy Reece…

There were 67.2 million viewers for the candidates' Oct. 3 faceoff and 65.6 for the debate on Oct. 16. One reason for the decline on Monday: Major League Baseball and the National Football League were also on the air Monday night.

Each week, Fletcher Powell finds the independent and non-commercial films showing in Wichita and the surrounding areas and brings them to you in this…