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NPR's Claudio Sanchez updates a story from last fall about people who never went to college to be teachers, but who wanted to teach. A Maryland school system has a program that gave the aspiring teachers classroom assignments after only 3 weeks training. How did they do? And will they be back?

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Exactly one year ago this week singer-songwriter Warren Zevon was diagnosed with a rare and inoperable form of lung cancer. He has since finished an album called The Wind. Son Jordan Zevon, the album's executive producer, talks with NPR's Scott Simon.

The Illinois Secretary of State's office says a plan to issue driver's licenses and state identification cards in Illinois that are more secure won't…

Illinois Republican Governor Bruce Rauner says the state needs to change how it purchases products and services as part of a budget deal. But Senate…

McLean County administrators say a mailing service messed up 4,000 property tax bills and sent them out a week ago.Those bills went to the individuals or…

March unemployment in Bloomington Normal was down more than a full point from the same time last year.According to the State Department of Employment…

The man found dead Sunday on the east side of Bloomington is 26-year-old Natwan Nash of Bloomington. Police and the McLean County coroner's office have…

The Mexican government launched a crackdown on organized crime in northern border cities earlier this month. KPBS reporter Amy Isackson reports from Tijuana that this is President Vicente Fox's latest response to the drug-cartel violence on the streets of Mexico's border cities.

Host Bob Edwards talks to NPR's Eric Weiner in Tokyo where Secretary of State Colin Powell will meet with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on the first leg of his East Asia trip. Powell left yesterday for the tour, which also includes stops in China, South Korea, and Vietnam.