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The Greenville city council will once again address the city manager vacancy at tonight's meeting.

Also: Russia is angry about EU's decision to lift embargo against supplying arms to Syrian opposition; campers and residents flee California wildfire; Rutgers stands behind new athletic director.

Also: a new poem by Louise Glück; Alice Munro talks about writing; Imre Kertész speaks to The Paris Review about dying.

Internet sleuths traced the scrawl to a teenager in Nanjing. Cases like this have prompted a "tourism law" in China that seeks to make Chinese tourists better behaved abroad.

Prosecutors called the website the "PayPal for criminals," saying it allowed users to transfer money without leaving a trace.

Some families with a history of schizophrenia share genetic variants on one brain pathway, a study finds. And the family members with schizophrenia are more likely to share symptoms. This may help researchers decipher the frustratingly complex genetics of schizophrenia.

The justices have refused to disturb a lower court decision that barred Indiana from stripping Medicaid payments to the organization. Six federal courts have ruled that targeted defunding is illegal. This was the first case to reach the Supreme Court.

NPR tracked down former top spellers to see how they're faring, decades after their early successes.

About 2,200 passengers were being flown back to Baltimore after their cruise ship caught fire on its way to the Bahamas. It was the latest black eye for the cruise industry, which is now trying to reassure passengers it's OK for them to sail. An industry group said it has adopted a passenger "bill of rights."

For the first time in the competition's 86-year history, a vocabulary test is part of the preliminary and semifinal rounds.