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It's dirt trails, not snow, at the World Championships of Dry Land Mushing. Humans and canines race for the top prize at the championships, held for the first time in the United States.

"Uncuffed" is a prison radio training program and a podcast where people in California prisons tell their stories.

It is difficult to find work if you've been incarcerated. Outside Seattle, one women's prison is trying to give inmates a better chance by training some of them for nontraditional jobs.

Around $4 million for a long-planned Locust Street sewer separation project, improvements at the Bloomington-Normal Reclamation District and flood prevention within Uptown Normal has been proposed, but still need full Senate approval.

College football's national championship will be decided Wednesday when Texas faces defending champion Southern California in the Rose Bowl. Six games on Monday offered a wild series of warmups, while in a final preliminary on Tuesday night, Penn State and Florida State meet in the Orange Bowl.

Illinois State University trustees on Friday took what university president Larry Dietz called a "beginning step' toward establishing a new engineering college on campus.

The Florida Democrat says she believes her position as a political moderate and her family history as a refugee from Vietnam could help Democrats win a Senate seat. She has not yet decided on a run.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was in Mexico last week on a high-profile visit. Now that smartphones and Internet access have become so universal, the next billion-dollar idea could come from anywhere.

Preservation Hall Jazz Band pays tribute to the music of Cuba, Residente releases some insurgent reggaeton and Winnipeg's Mariachi Ghost delves into Latin soul.

While corn and soybeans dominate the Midwestern landscape today, some farmers are integrating strips of native prairie back into their fields. This conservation practice has expanded to more than a dozen states.