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A City Council member’s office complained to city officials twice in one week that residents were griping about odors from the business

Rita Ali is officially Peoria's Mayor-elect, weeks after Election night came and passed.

The federal infrastructure bill being considered in Washington might be what finally gets a long-awaited south Bloomington road project to the finish line.

Police made the arrests after uncovering an attempt to make explosives and plant bombs across the city. Of the nine arrested, six are secondary school students.

With the Israeli bombardment of Lebanon now in its ninth day, Israel is again warning the occupants of towns and cities in the southern part of the country to leave. Tyre has been the scene of some of the fiercest Israeli air strikes.

Dramatist Martin McDonagh (The Pillowman) has been called a "stage Tarantino"; with In Bruges, his feature-film debut, he's left two Irish hit men at large in the picturesque Belgian city — and created some moments that are pretty picturesque themselves.

A new anthology features short stories about New Orleans. NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks to editor Joshua Clark about French Quarter Fiction: The Newest Stories of America's Oldest Bohemia. John Biguenet, whose work is featured in the collection, also joins the conversation.

The jails, hospitals, courts, police and mental health department in Bexar County, Texas, used to work separately. Since they started cooperating, psychiatric care has improved and costs are down.

A storied football team may be moving out of Illinois. Will fans of the Chicago Bears stick with them when they become the Hammond Bears?

The water in Flint, Mich., is contaminated with dangerously high levels of lead. The president has now declared a state of emergency and authorized FEMA to provide assistance.