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The contest between Barack Obama and John McCain has been followed closely in Mexico, with opinion polls showing that the vast majority of Mexicans support Obama. The U.S. election returns were overshadowed, however, by a plane crash in downtown Mexico City that killed the nation's interior minister.

Hurricane Dean is now heading toward Mexico's mainland, after leaving the Yucatan peninsula remarkably unscathed. Thousands of people fled coastal cities ahead of the storm.

Across the city, power lines and trees are downed, traffic lights are out and glass is scattered across downtown. About 900,000 customers were left without power early Friday.

Bloomington residents will soon have access to in-depth lessons on how to prevent emergencies.

The Bloomington Planning Commission is recommending the city designate Holy Trinity Catholic Church as a local historic site.

Rather than identify with a country, writer Taiye Selasi chooses to identify with localities — local places and cities where her diverse range of experiences have helped shape her many identities.

The City of Bloomington has announced the 2025 winners of its annual Black History Essay Contest. You'll hear them this month on WGLT's Sound Ideas, or you can listen on-demand below.

A Kansas City Chiefs superfan known as "ChiefsAholic" was sentenced Monday in an Oklahoma courtroom to serve 32 years in state prison for robbing a Tulsa-area bank.

The city still has problems with violence. But it is on track to have its lowest number of murders in a decade. Many are crediting street outreach.

Archaeologists have stumbled on a room full of wall paintings and numerical calculations in the buried ninth century city of Xultun. The room was apparently an astronomer's workshop, with calculations painted on the walls counting lunar cycles and predicting eclipses.