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Amid a literary landscape rife with metafictional and postmodern high jinks, Jill McCorkle has dared to write a heartwarmer set largely in a retirement home. Her Life After Life celebrates late-life epiphanies and old-fashioned kindness.

Hear the Grammy-nominated jazz musician performs songs from her latest album, Bewitched.

When he was just 10 years old, Shankar began performing in Europe and the US with his family's Indian dance troupe. But at age 18, Shankar gave up all the glitter to study with a guru who taught him the sitar. He became a master, and introduced the West to his country's music.

The 1,200-seat auditorium was a hub for performing arts in central Oregon, until structural engineers discovered fissures in trusses that support the ceiling.

A Stradivarius crafted in 1714 goes up for auction this week. Sotheby's expects it to fetch between $12 and $18 million.

New smoke management rules aim to increase amount of prescribed burns in fire-prone forests.

Earlier in October, someone broke into KYNR, stealing equipment and knocking them off the air. It highlighted issues not only of crime and safety on the Yakama Nation reservation, but also how important the station is to the community.

Researchers looked at the combined effects of air, water and soil pollution on global health to come up with an annual toll.

Half of all cars in Europe run on diesel, compared to 3 percent in the U.S. But Madrid has vowed to ban diesel vehicles by 2025, to cut air pollution. Paris and Athens have made similar pledges.

Some progress has been made containing Oregon's wildfires, but officials say it's far from over. An environmental report out Thursday also highlighted just how much more smoke Oregon has seen from wildfires in recent years.