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Bailey Leavitt comes from a family of carnies.

The Iowa State Fair awarded coveted slots to just nine new food vendors this year.

A teenage whiz kid invents a new toy for Milton Bradley.

In 1980, deep in a nuclear missile silo in Arkansas, a simple human error nearly caused the destruction of a giant portion of the Midwest.

Reporter Joe Richman visits a program in Richmond, CA that is trying a controversial method of reducing gun violence in their city: paying criminals to not commit crimes.

Radio Diaries’ Joe Richman continues William Cimillo’s story and talks to his two sons about what it was like to have lived through the drama that ensued after their father’s big journey.