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Jackpot, Nev., near the Idaho border, is a casino town with some 1,300 year-round residents. Government presence isn't strongly felt in the small desert outpost -- there's no city government, and the county seat is more than 100 miles away.

With reportedly less than 10,000 citizens left in New Orleans, the Crescent City is now home to 14,000 soldiers, National Guardsmen and assorted other armed federal agents and police officers from around the country.

Search and rescue workers in hard-hit Beaumont, Texas, find major property damage, but report no deaths and few injuries. They're continuing to take stock of townspeople who stayed for the storm. Most of the city was evacuated.

The latest directorial effort from actor Steve Buscemi presents Casey Affleck -- Ben's brother -- as a depressed man who returns home to nowheresville and life with his parents after striking out in New York City as a dogwalker.

The documentary follows three African-American students who get the opportunity to attend an academically rigorous school in Kenya designed to give them a path out of the violence and poverty of inner-city Baltimore.

Amtrak has released a blueprint for increased service, new rail connections and new stations in some cities. But in the Gulf states, those plans may not be leaving the station any time soon.

The asbestos that was discovered in Bloomington's Lincoln Leisure Center a week ago has been taken out of the building. The city says Ideal Environmental…

State Senator Andy Manar has filed legislation that would allow Illinois to catch up on payments to the city of Springfield's utility. The budget impasse…

City council members have signed off on a $225,000 settlement to a second lawsuit that accuses a Champaign police officer using excessive force. The…

More items seized from the former Dixon comptroller who was convicted of stealing nearly $54 million from the northern Illinois city will be auctioned…