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In one Illinois county, a dedicated staff of four people has managed to clear the welfare rolls. They didn't set out to do it, but they've moved all their former welfare recipients to jobs or some other type of support. Urban counties are wondering if they could repeat the feat, as Chicago Public Radio's Jackie Northam reports.

NPR's Phillip Davis reports that the Air Force has decided to keep a Florida runway to itself and to turn the rest of a controversial base over to surrounding Miami-Dade county. The Air Force set one condition upon granting the land: that it not be developed into a county airport.

A Senate panel will investigate claims that the Federal Emergency Management Agency improperly allocated disaster relief funds to Miami-Dade County after last year's hurricanes. The county was not hit as hard as other parts of Florida by a series of major storms.

A man is dead after a single vehicle accident Saturday in rural Peoria County. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood said the accident happened around 11...

NPR's Don Gonyea reports from Palm Beach County, Florida, where early this morning, officials took the extraordinary step of ordering a hand recount of all the presidential ballots cast in the county. The move could add significant numbers of votes to Vice President Al Gore. The candidate who ultimately wins Florida's electoral votes will win the election.

Linda Wertheimer talks to NPR's Peter Kenyon, who is in Florida monitoring the vote counts in three counties -- Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade. Broward County, situated in Fort Lauderdale, is close to finishing its recount, and Miami-Dade only began its recount yesterday. But everyone canvassing the vote realizes that everything is contingent on what the state Supreme Court rules.

The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday nullified nearly 3,000 marriage licenses issued to gay couples last year by Multnomah County, saying a county cannot go against state matrimonial law. Oregon Public Radio's Colin Fogarty reports.

In Salinas, Calif., tens of thousands agricultural workers heed the call for a national work boycott by staying away from the fields. As Ben Adler of member station KAZU reports, they had union and industry support for the action, designed to demonstrate immigrant worker strength.

A grassroots movement opposing privately run immigrant jails, which grew under former President Donald Trump, has continued and found a more receptive audience under President Biden.

Illinois Democrats on Friday pushed through new legislative district maps in a whirlwind 12 hours full of partisan rancor — over the objections of Republicans and many community advocacy organizations.