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A large tornado hit southeastern Missouri before dawn, causing widespread destruction as a broad swath of the Midwest and South braced for further storms that could spawn additional twisters and hail.

Overhauling police has been a critical issue for more than two years after the release of a video which showed a white Chicago police officer shooting and killing a black teenager.

Narcan is now available in drug stores without a prescription. The nasal spray can save a life by stopping an opioid overdose. But will people pay the price and ask for it by name?

Kate joined KUER from Austin, Texas, where she attended the University of Texas at Austin’s Moody School of Journalism. She has been an intern, fellow and reporter at Texas Monthly, the Texas Observer, Quartz, the Texas Standard and Voces, an oral history project. Kate began her public radio career at Austin’s NPR station, KUT, as a part-time reporter. Now, she is a corps member of Report For America, a public service program that partners with local newsrooms to bring reporters to undercovered areas across the country. She’s excited to be living in and reporting on San Juan County, one of the most beautiful — and interesting — parts of the United States.

from funeral parlors, to private homes, to the lifeguard station at Venice Beach. The county has a tradition of using accessible locations for polling, instead of the usual schools and public sites relied on in most other states and counties.

M'hari Saito reports on Pennsylvania's York County Prison. The county makes a lot of money on the facility, housing prisoners for the Immigration and Naturalization Service. But critics say the detainees aren't getting the treatment they deserve.

NPR's David Welna reports from Broward County, one of the three Florida counties still recounting their ballots. In the center of this national turmoil, families in the area took a break over the weekend for a game of softball, but the talk inevitably turned to politics.

NPR's Peter Kenyon looks at the atmosphere in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties. A 5PM Sunday deadline has been put in place for all ballots to be turned in, and these counties are trying to comply.

The rising number of fires hamper decades of environmental efforts, and over 40% of Americans — more than 137 million people — live in places with poor air quality, a new report says.

Arizona officials are still counting ballots. President Trump won the state four years ago, but Joe Biden may turn the usually Republican state blue.