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Last year, Tea Party favorite and political outsider Rick Scott spent $70 million of his own money to get elected Florida's governor. Faced with a $3.5 billion budget shortfall, the former hospital CEO made unpopular cuts. Now Scott faces another big budget gap — and low approval ratings.

As Virus Hits, Farm-To-Table Becomes Farm-To-Home

The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus has forced restaurants to temporarily close, but the growers who provide chefs with fresh produce are still harvesting…

Health Care Aide Charged After Allegedly Refusing To Self-Isolate; Patient, 80, Dies

A New Jersey woman is facing charges after five members of her patient's household got COVID-19. The aide went to work after taking a coronavirus test and being told to stay home, officials say.

The gunman charged with killing 10 Black people and injuring three other individuals in the mass shooting at a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket in May will not be pursuing a psychiatric defense in his state case, officials say. Here, people pay their respects at a makeshift memorial near the scene of the mass shooting a few days after it occurred.

The Buffalo supermarket gunman won't pursue a psychiatric defense in his state case

In a statement to NPR, a spokesperson for the New York State Unified Court System said the defense has "neither filed a notice nor requested an extension to do so."

John Coltrane, photographed in his backyard in Queens, New York in 1963.

A Lost Album From John Coltrane, With Thanks To A French-Canadian Director

Coltrane recorded the album in New Jersey, at the admiring behest of a Québécois filmmaker named Gilles Groulx, who used it to score his docufictional film Le chat dans le sac.

People gather for a rally to protest conditions at New York City's Rikers Island jail in October of 2022. The New York City Council voted Wednesday to ban most uses of solitary confinement in the city's jails.

New York City Council votes to ban most instances of solitary confinement

Mayor Eric Adams may yet veto it, but if the bill becomes law, it will ban most uses of solitary confinement beyond four hours in New York City jails.

Republican Greg Gianforte celebrates with supporters at the Hilton Garden Inn in Bozeman, Mont., on Thursday after being declared the winner of Montana's special House election.

Republican Gianforte Wins Montana House Race Despite Assault Charge

Republican Greg Gianforte claimed victory in a special election for Congress on Thursday despite an election eve assault charge for allegedly body-slamming a reporter.

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services office is pictured in downtown Springfield.

Prosecutors say they don’t oppose release of DCFS timeline in foster child’s death

Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has refused to make information public

Illinois Woos Spy HQ

The head of a federal spy agency that plans to relocate its regional headquarters from St. Louis is scheduled to visit a possible new home in southwestern…

A gavel sits on a judge's bench. On top of that photo, the words "WGLT Courts" appears.

Appellate court won't overturn Springfield judge's order on school mask mandate

A state appellate court says it won’t be reversing the decision of a Springfield judge that essentially ended Illinois’ school mask mandate.

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