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Police in Normal said a 29-year-old man was shot in the parking lot of the Candlewood Suites motel on Susan Drive overnight Sunday morning.

In Poet's Choice, author Edward Hirsch makes a case that poetry is "a human fundamental, like music." Hirsch talks poetry with Scott Simon and reads poems by Kathy Fagan and William Matthews.

Suburban misfit Marc Acito — author of Attack of the Theater People and other comic novels — relies on three fictional gal friends for comfort, laughs and inspiration.

Obsessed — and confounded — by the roller-coaster economy? To help you understand our frazzled financial situation, Laura Conaway offers three books that cover everything from the Great Depression to the "dazzling world of derivatives."

The bulk of TSA PreCheck passengers spent less than five minutes at security checkpoints.

Today's programming is made possible in part by WGLT Day Sponsors Tami Martin and Roger Day, who celebrate Pi Day every year on 3.14, or March 14. Pi is a symbol of the beauty and intrigue of mathematics. Support and celebrate mathematics teachers today! Learn how you can become a WGLT Day Sponsor.

Today's programming is made possible in part by WGLT Day Sponsors Patrick and Susan Cortesi encouraging you to be civically engaged and vote today. Elected officials make decisions daily impacting your life. Make your voice heard before the polls close at 7pm. Learn how you can become a WGLT Day Sponsor.

Today's programming is made possible in part by WGLT Day Sponsors Binoy and Joceline Edathiparambil who wish their daughter Agnes a happy 8th birthday. They thank all hard-working 2nd-grade teachers who put in so much effort to provide quality education for their students. Learn how you can become a WGLT Day Sponsor.

An African serval escaped from his owner's car in Cincinnati a few weeks ago. The 30-pound cat was later found in a tree. After he was rescued and identified, the cat tested positive for cocaine.

Not sure what to do with Grandma's leftover fruitcake? Professor Thom Castonguay has an idea. In a lab at the University of Maryland's Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Castonguay demonstrates bomb calorimetry -- the science of calculating calories by blowing up food.