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For the third year in a row, the public relations firm Edelman finds consumers have very little trust in banks or financial services. Despite concerns about privacy, or monopolistic firms, tech remains the most trusted industry worldwide at 81 percent.

NBC News reports that the Equifax credit reporting agency has collected wage records on about one-third of American adults. Some has then been sold to "debt collectors, financial service companies and other entities." It's all legal, but is viewed by some as a huge breach of privacy.

Pvt. Bob Rodgers wrote his wife one night from Fort Campbell, Ky. He said all he did was "shine boots, shine boots and shine more boots and brass and more brass." Sixty years later, the postal service delivered that letter to Jean Rodgers. An Indiana postmaster says she has no idea why it took so long.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has not had a great year. After a winning a disputed election, he faces inflation near 50 percent. Supplies of basic goods like toilet paper have run low. Now Maduro is acting. He created a new Vice Ministry of Supreme Social Happiness. It's supposed to coordinate services for the poor.

The huge fire is threatening some of San Francisco's power and water services. Southern California Public Radio has put together a multimedia tool to follow the fire and the fight to bring it under control.

Riders can pick up a bike, take a ride and return it to a different location. About a hundred keys that members use to unlock bikes were lost in the mail. And, as workers were loading the $825 bikes for the first day of service, someone snagged one and rode off.

"I certainly feel a strong call of public service," she tells the BBC, after not ruling out a run for office someday. Now 32, she adds that her mother's run for the White House in 2008 got her thinking about a possible future in politics for herself.

A 911 operator told the three-year-old who managed to dial emergency services to take the watch to his mother. His mom had given him the disused watch to use as a toy.

A new report from the Federal Trade Commission says that every year, millions of Americans are victims of fraud. The most common frauds are paying money to someone prior to receiving a loan or a credit card, or buying unnecessary credit card insurance. NPR's Jack Speer reports.

Public health officials from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services are encouraging residents and visitors to take precautions to prevent mosquito-borne illness following recent cases of West Nile virus in several parts of the state.