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Work on the Taft Homes redevelopment project is proceeding according to schedule.

On big news days, it's fun to look at the witty headlines in the tabloids. The headline in the New York Daily News: Don Of A New Day. The headline in the New York Post: Don Of A New Day.

A 24-year-old woman is dead after she crashed her car into a tree and a residence early Tuesday in Bloomington.

A Goldendoodle found $4,000 in cash on a kitchen counter and ate it. Cecil's owners were planning to use the money for a new fence. The dog pooped and the couple got most of the money back.

Many public housing residents are especially vulnerable to extreme heat, but there's no federal requirement for air conditioning. That leaves cash-strapped local agencies struggling to provide it.

After 41 days of a government shutdown, the U.S. Senate passed a set of bills to reopen the government. The House comes back to vote as early as Wednesday afternoon.

One person is dead after a Sunday afternoon fire at a residence in Peoria's North Valley.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past eek's news, including survivors of the devastating earthquake in Kobe, Japan, ouis Farrakhan denying responsibility for the assassination of Malcom X, House epresentatives Carrie Meek (D-FL), Robert Torricelli (D-NJ), Harold Volkmer D-MO), and the House Presiding Officer from the chaos in the House over peaker Newt Gingrich's book deal, as well as a comment from Gingrich himself

Democrats are racing to make a self-imposed deadline of coming together by Friday.

NPR's John Nielsen reports that congressional Republicans and the Clinton White House are moving closer to a showdown over Medicare reform. First, House Republicans unveiled a plan to wring $270 billion from the national health insurance program for the elderly. Then, President Clinton threatened a veto, unless the cuts were scaled back. Now, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole says the cutbacks in the Senate's Medicare reform bill will probably equal the savings in the house bill.