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A dress display on a fence in the Warehouse District will honor the memories of the 94 women murdered in Peoria County in the last 20 years.

Thanks to a recent win, Woodbury Central High will host part of the tournament. But the county's Democratic Party booked that gym months ago. School officials moved the caucus to a middle school.

The cries were coming from a 40-year-old parrot named Rambo. Deputies from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office consider the case closed.

Springfield authorities have confirmed that the victims of a plane crash Tuesday were the Sangamon County Coroner Cinda Edwards, her husband Frank – a...

A 25-year-old Mackinaw man believed to be murdered in California died from blunt force trauma to the head. Lake County, Calif. Sheriff's deputies...

Washington County Sheriff deputies apprehended the robotic vacuum cleaner. The Sheriff's office posted the story with a photo of the Roomba — which had left no trace of the crime.

Montgomery County Public Schools in Southwestern Virginia uses a company called Wing. One of the company's small drones hovers 23 feet over a student's house and it drops the book on a cable.

Local governments in California are struggling with how to respond to Governor Pete Wilson's plan to eliminate a state program providing pre-natal care to illegal immigrants. The governor says taxpayers should not have to fund services for people who are breaking the law, and officials in many counties agree. But others say offering pre-natal care is more cost-effective than paying for later medical problems in the babies, who are US citizens. Jason Beaubien (BOH-bee-en) of member station KQED reports.

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia, is a model for the nation's magnet schools. It churns out record numbers of merit scholars by providing students with the best equipment and the best opportunities to succeed in science education. But as NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports, some educators wonder whether the school's open-minded attitude and lack of structure need to give way to a more disciplined atmosphere. They point to recent incidents of vandalism, saying that even the brightest kids need to learn basic rules of behavior.

Lisa talks with Akhil Reed Amar, law professor at Yale University, and Howard Gillman, professor of political science at the University of Southern California, about the legal grounds on which the Bush camp has based their request for an injunction to stop the hand count of some Palm Beach County, Fla., ballots. They also address the political implications of using the courts to decide the election.