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Bandleader Les Brown died of lung cancer this week at the age of 88. For almost 70 years, Les Brown and His Band of Renown entertained US troops and music fans worldwide. In 1940, with a 17-year-old Doris Day on vocals, Brown recorded Sentimental Journey -- the biggest hit of 1945. Brown later joined Bob Hope's weekly radio show and then made the transition to television with him. Host Lisa Simeone has this appreciation.

From Peach State Public Radio Susanna Capelouto reports that Dekalb County Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown was murdered last Friday. Brown was gunned down outside his home. Weeks before his murder Brown had ordered 38 sheriff's department employees to be fired once he gained office but there is no speculation by police officers about the motive.

From member station WFCR in Springfield, Massachusetts, Karen Brown reports on one local musician's effort to help teens who deal drugs on the street to set their sights on a career in music producing.

NPR's Frank Browning reports that cleanliness can be taken too far, although it's important when controlling disease. America's "germ panic" corresponds directly to the presence of communicable diseases - even if personal hygiene has little to do with the illness. This is the second of two reports on soap and health.

NPR's Frank Browning reports that flu season is about to reach its peak, and public health officials recommend frequent hand washing with soap, as a good way to protect against influenza. It sounds obvious, yet many people don't even wash their hands after using the bathroom.

Host Lisa Simeone talks to jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut about his latest CD, Cyrus Chestnut & Friends, which pays tribute to the music of the Charles Schultz inspired Peanuts TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas.

For over 30 years the animated television special, A Charlie Brown Christmas, has entertained millions. Lee Mendelson produced that program and the others that followed based on the Charles M. Schulz Peanuts comic strip characters. Mendelson talks to Noah about the making of the popular annual Christmas special.

The Republican-controlled Florida legislature today held a special session to name its own set of electors to the Electoral College, a move that Democrats have decried as intended to ensure George W. Bush wins the state's 25 electoral votes, and thus the national election. The Florida Supreme Court's ruling today sets up the possibility that there will be competing sets of electors, if a final vote tally turns in favor of Al Gore. We hear about today's action in the Florida legislature, and what is expected to happen Monday, when the two houses reconvene, as Robert talks to Ginny Brown-Waite, President Pro-Tempore of the Florida state senate.

ST.JOHN BURIAL - On Sunday, the ashes of William Wallace Brown, Jr., a man who was once homeless, will be interred at St. John Episcopal Church near the White House. Brown became a member of the "church of the presidents" when former President George Bush invited him in to pray one Sunday morning.

Scott and Weekend Edition's ambassador to the world of children's literature, Daniel Pinkwater, discuss, read and have fun with a new book for kids, called Small Brown Dog's Bad Remembering Day.