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Nikolas Cruz, 19, has already been charged with 17 counts of murder in the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Public defenders had sought to avoid a trial by having Cruz plead guilty.

After the state's testing sites close Thursday evening, they won't reopen until at least Tuesday morning — part of the safety precautions for Tropical Storm Isaias.

UPDATED 7:05 p.m. | A Clay County judge is lifting Illinois' extended stay-at-home order for a single state representative.Judge Michael McHaney issued a…

Of more than 3.2 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 globally, more than a million people have recovered — including some 154,000 in the U.S.

The foundation has been accused of "self-dealing" by using its funds to pay off debts that Donald Trump incurred in his business dealings.

Former Illinois State University graduate student Jelani Day died from drowning, with no evidence of other injuries suffered before his death, authorities said Monday.

Charlayne Woodward's play Flight puts the African-American storytelling tradition in the spotlight. Set in the South on the eve of the Civil War, the play centers on slave narratives -- testimonials about slavery by the slaves themselves. She talks to NPR's Roy Hurst about the challenges of creating a stage play centering on such challenging material.

On Oct. 11, 2001, more than 5,000 Kansans took part in a project called "A Day in My Community." They kept a diary for a single day, to leave a historical record of their lives at the beginning of the millennium. In a six-part weekly series, Morning Edition brings you some of their Prairie Diaries.

The suspect is no longer a threat to the community, officials say. Multiple federal agencies, including the FBI and ATF, have responded to assist local police.

The main library in Boulder, Colorado, had been receiving increased reports of drug use in the bathrooms over a four-week span. It has been closed since late December.