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Springfield city leaders set the dates for public meetings in each ward. Dates, times and locations are below. This post will be updated as locations...

An effort to remove the statue of Robert E. Lee sparked the white nationalist rally in 2017 that resulted in the deaths of counter-demonstrator Heather Heyer and two state police officers.

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Inglewood Mayor James Butts called the shooting an "ambush" involving multiple shooters.

Singer Patti Scialfa's new CD was a long time coming — her previous solo release was in 1993. But she says husband Bruce Springsteen offered this encouragement: "The record will tell you when it's complete."

The U.S. Senate approves a plan to address New York City's $21 million problem with parking tickets that go unpaid by foreign diplomats operating at the United Nations. The bill would permit the U.S. government to withhold foreign aid to offset the unpaid fines, and tack on a financial penalty. Hear NPR's Lynn Neary and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), who co-sponsored the bill. In an audio clip available through the expanded coverage link below, Sen. Clinton also speaks about her work to award Harriet Tubman a widow's pension for her husband's service in the Civil War. Tubman, the former slave instrumental in leading others to freedom on the Underground Railroad, herself served as a Union spy, scout and nurse during the War Between the States.

One musical act that didn't make the halftime show at this past weekend's Super Bowl was Alexander Pollack's truck horn symphony. We spoke with Pollack in November about his plans for the National Anthem and other songs to be performed on the air horns. Now, we hear the results.

Few people think of coal mining as a good career move. In Central Appalachia, a generation felt so burned by the boom-and-bust cycles that many gave up on the mines and left to work in Northern cities. But now -- in ways few would have predicted -- coal is hot again.

Jesse Jean grew up without parents in inner-city Washington, D.C., and seemed destined to slip through the cracks. But then Jean met two mentors who put him on a very different path -- an elite boarding school in Connecticut. Independent radio producer Katie Davis first profiled Jean in May 2002, and has a follow-up.

The Afghan-American musician traveled from her home of Los Angeles to the ancient city of Kabul to record her debut album, The Lion of Panjshir. The record borrows its title from the nickname of the late Ahmad Shah Massoud, a prominent anti-Taliban leader, and is mixed by film director and producer David Lynch.