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  • The FBI has spent years searching for the person who put bombs near the Democratic and Republican committee headquarters, hours before the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
  • A wave of kidnappings has hit Tijuana, Mexico, just across the border from San Diego. Citizens' groups say more than 150 people have been kidnapped for ransom over the last year. The trend has made many wealthier families nervous -- and some are moving to the United States as a result.
  • Illinois State University is following the state's lead, using money to encourage people to get vaccinated. ISU is offering $1,000 scholarships to 100 students who submit proof of vaccination before the start of the fall semester.
  • Another test mission for Virgin Galactic's passenger rocket plane takes its owner, billionaire Richard Branson, into space - if only to the edge and if only for 90 minutes.
  • In 1981, Knopf published a collection of short stories by Raymond Carver called What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Now Carver's widow wants his readers to see the original stories, which were edited heavily for the book. Knopf says it owns the rights — but to what?
  • The State of Illinois closed the year with about 333,000 people out of work and looking for a job. The state Department of Employment Security said Friday that's down by nearly a third from December 2020.
  • Israel launches new airstrikes in south Lebanon, just hours after the announcement of a 48-hour suspension of the aerial campaign. The partial suspension came after the bombing Sunday of an apartment building in the southern Lebanese town of Qana that left more than 50 civilians dead.
  • Chris Douridas, a music supervisor for feature films and host of the music show New Ground at member station KCRW, recently went to Japan and brought back some real gems — he shares his musical finds.
  • Through a robotic vehicle, a team of scientists are the first to witness up-close the eruption of an underwater volcano. The volcano is not too far from a gigantic undersea trench where one continent-sized piece of the Earth's crust is grinding underneath another.
  • The 20th anniversary WGLT Summer Concert Presented by CEFCU is just a few weeks ago. Join us Saturday, June 18, for the best free summer concert in Bloomington-Normal.
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