KSFR's Kate Powell brings you local news at noon. 

The recent Summit of the Americas in Panama fulfilled for many of its Latin American participants the long dreamed-of function of the event, to harmonize the hemisphere by ending the mini Cold War between the United States and Cuba.  This meant, Al Jazeera America correspondent David Ariosto told KSFR's Dave Marash on HERE AND THERE, that to most of the people in the hall, as President Barack Obama and Raul Castro shook hands, that it felt like, not just another political grip and grin, but history. 

Santa Fe Community College is ending its Native American Week by presenting a full tuition scholarship to each of the Native American communities of northern New Mexico. KSFR's Zelie Pollon reports. 

Tonight and tomorrow there will be a theatrical production of Rudolpho Anaya's as part of Siembra Latino Theatre festival taking place at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. KSFR's Zelie Pollon spoke with two actors from the play, Cristina Vigil, who plays the Trementina Witch, and AJ Goldman, who plays the deputy.

Friday morning's top news stories from KSFR.