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Springfield is looking for input on its plan to spend nearly $800,000 from the federal aid package approved in March for coronavirus relief efforts. The...

The Peoria City Council delayed Tuesday night’s vote for the proposed tax abatement program in Peoria’s North Valley over concerns related to the...

They took tremendous risks to treat the wounded. Now they've fled the Syrian city and face an uncertain future.

The U.N. Secretary-General said he was "appalled by the chilling military escalation," and that the bombing of densely populated urban areas may amount to war crimes.

Archaeologists working to uncover a wealthy villa on the outskirts of the ancient city have found a dormitory for workers, providing important insight into daily life.

In the past decade, nearly 100 young women have been murdered in a grisly series of sexual homicides in the ramshackle border town of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. NPR's John Burnett talks to the city's most vulnerable women -- factory workers, students, prostitutes -- and to groups seaching for answers, and safety. View a photo gallery, and listen to an extended interview with women's right advocates fighting for safer streets.

Across the country this weekend, thousands marched in cities like Dallas, St. Paul and Des Moines to demand legalization for undocumented immigrants. On Monday, hundreds of thousands are expected to protest in more than sixty cities.

Atlanta area donors didn't want to see the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s papers go up for auction, so they raised enough money to bring the collection to the city's library for historically black colleges and universities. Many say King's papers will be at home in the city of his youth.

In the 1990s, Seattle voters backed a plan to build an elevated train through 14 miles of the most congested parts of the city. But the estimated price tag has risen to $11 billion, prompting talk that the project may be abandoned.

Saturday's Make Poverty History rally is under way in Edinburgh, Scotland. And a linked series of Live 8 concerts are held in nine cities across the world. The efforts are aimed at encouraging G8 leaders to take action to end poverty in Africa.