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Noah talks with Shawn Riley, the administrator of C.O.A.S.T....the Centralized Officer-Assistance System Terminal based in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Riley talks about his idea to bring a version of the local "Chester County's Most Wanted" cable television program into local movie theaters to help find people with outstanding arrest warrants.

While much of the world watched the case in the Florida State Supreme Court today, another trial was coming to a conclusion not far away in downtown Tallahassee. In the Leon County Circuit Courthouse, lawyers argued over the fate of about 10-thousand absentee ballots cast in Martin County. Most of them were cast for George W. Bush. The judge in the case promised a ruling tomorrow. NPR's Phillip Davis reports from Tallahassee.

A challenge to the counting of absentee ballots in Florida's Seminole County has at least the potential to wipe out thousands of votes that have already been included in the state's certified count. Democrats say those absentee ballots were obtained only after Republican volunteers were allowed to complete applications for them, applications that otherwise would not have qualified. Today, that case was relocated from Seminole County to Tallahassee, the state capital. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

The blaze raging in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties covers more ground than New York City. And as other, smaller fires are reined in, weather forecasts portend the Thomas Fire will spread.

October marks not only fire season in California, but also the peak of the grape harvest. In areas not imminently threatened, some workers labor through heat and smoke to save harvests and paychecks.

El clima de otoño se mantiene en Bloomington-Normal, pero no se puede negar que las fiestas ya están aquí. La lista de WGLT de más de 40 espectáculos de temporada, cosas para hacer y lugares para comprar no es exhaustiva, pero tiene como objetivo llenar sus calendarios de diciembre y sus corazones con el espíritu de la temporada.

A federal court has blocked the Republican-led redistricting of the congressional map in Texas, dealing a blow to President Trump's effort to shape the landscape for next year's midterm elections.

Polk County, Fla., in the center of the state, is the only U.S. county on record to have been hit by three hurricanes in one season. NPR's Melissa Block tours a Polk County orange grove damaged by hurricanes Charley, Frances and Jeanne. She also visits a disaster recovery center set up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and explores how the hurricanes are affecting this election season.

Mayor Tari Renner conceded Tuesday he has “serious communication issues” to work out with the Bloomington aldermen who publicly admonished him, even as he…

As recently as last month, Surfside, Fla., officials were ordering changes at Champlain Towers South. But the demands never focused on the building's fundamental soundness.