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NPR's Juana Summer's speaks with Jackson, Miss., Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba on a new bill that would allow the state to create a separate court system for a district in the city.

After the Maui wildfires worsened a massive housing shortage on the island, many community members advocated for government officials to take action against short term vacation rentals. Now, they are.

John Pistorino has been hired to investigate the building collapse in Surfside, Fla. He says the process will involve trying to reconstruct parts of the building to see where critical pieces failed.

Thousands of Illinois Democrats met Thursday in Springfield for the party’s annual state fair brunch. Candidates repeated familiar attacks on...

Five candidates are vying to become the Republican nominee to run against incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin in November.

In major cities, a powerful street drug concoction of heroin or cocaine and the painkiller fentanyl is proving deadly. In Wayne County, Mich., which includes the city of Detroit, dozens of people have died from the combination since November, with several in the past week.

Illinois county officials have about four months to figure out details of the rabies vaccination effort for cats.Legislation signed into law this month by…

The Peoria County Sheriff's Office is investigating a rollover crash involving Dunlap Fire Chief James Hanson.

A Pekin man is dead after a two-vehicle accident in rural South Pekin. The Tazewell County Sheriff's Office responded to Illinois Route 29 and Main...

Police in the northern Marshall County city of Henry say there's no cause for alarm after a pair of fishermen claimed they caught a human foot in the...