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NPR's Alison MacAdam tells the story of getting in touch with her best friend from kindergarten, Scott Hoffman, who is now a sensation in a disco-rock band called The Scissor Sisters. Hoffman explains how he uses music to fill the voids he felt growing up in Lexington, Ky.

As part of the series "Teenage Diaries," producer Joe Richman has been giving teenagers around the country tape recorders so they can document their lives. This month, Juan, a nineteen-year-old from an immigrant community just outside Laredo, Texas, tells about his life with ten brothers and sisters in a small trailer home, and the pressures of living as an illegal immigrant in a country that's making him feel more and more unwelcome.

Bloomington Police Chief Clay Wheeler said he plans to draft an immigration policy for his department that’s similar to the so-called “Welcoming…

Bloomington Police Chief Clay Wheeler said he plans to draft an immigration policy for his department that’s similar to the so-called “Welcoming…

The developer presenting plans to the Bloomington City Council Tuesday said during GLT's Sound Ideas if he'd known two and a half years ago it would take…

Dividing Downtown Bloomington into three zoning areas—instead of only one—could increase the area's walkability, leading people to spend more time and…

The Supreme Court justice issued a decision Tuesday night that's putting part of President Obama's health insurance law in doubt. Groups like the Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged are suing to block the law, saying it violates their religious freedom.

Amy Bloom's new novel follows two half-sisters from a disastrous stint in 1920s Hollywood, to happiness with an unexpected, impromptu family group in the disruptive years around World War II.

Thomas Keneally's new novel, The Daughters of Mars, follows two Australian sisters who become nurses during World War I. Naomi and Sally Durance share a guilty secret, but they don't share any sisterly closeness — until the horrors of war begin to bind them together.

A few days after her sister died, Maureen was on the subway when a stranger asked how she was doing. The conversation that followed is one that she will forever cherish.