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The latest book by former New Yorker editor Robert Gottlieb, Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens, reads more like scintillating gossip about the famous writer and his family than literary scholarship. NPR's Heller McAlpin is fine with that.

Also: Britain recognizes Syrian opposition while Syrian Islamist group rejects it; former Murdoch senior officials charged with bribery in Britain; and New Jersey lost an average of 30-40 feet of beaches after Sandy passed through.

The charges are on top of those against many of the same people stemming from the scandal over the hacking of the phones of crime victims, celebrities and members of the royal family.

The losses only came to light after former trader Kweku Adoboli told his bosses what he'd done, causing more than $2 billion dollars in losses and exposing UBS to as much as $12 billion in possible losses.

No joke: A guy dressed in a clown suit kept running in and out of traffic in Milwaukee. He resisted a police officer's attempt to make him stop. That's when a fistfight/wrestling match began. And it was all recorded by a guy with a camera phone. Fortunately, no one was hurt.

With pumpkin or pumpkin spices going into more products every year, we wondered, what's the deal with the pumpkin obsession? Turns out pumpkins have been a symbol of Americans' longing for simpler, rural times since we began moving to the cities in the 19th century. And marketers know it.

Many of the nation's historically black colleges and universities are facing financial problems, and some have had to shut down altogether. Guest host Celeste Headlee discusses the issue with Dillard University President Walter Kimbrough and Professor Marybeth Gasman of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.

The talks to end the longest-running conflict in the Western Hemisphere, got off to a rough start, but seem to have stabilized during the second day of negotiations.

A two-thirds majority of bishops and clergy voted in favor of the measure. But 35 percent of the Laity House voted down the measure.

Marilyn Guida, Education Curator of the El Paso Museum of Archaeology, along with guest curator, Dr. Yolanda Chávez Leyva, Chair of UTEP’s History…