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Lithuania requires masks. Vilnius erected billboards featuring residents — including the mayor — modeling designer masks. Some are custom-sewn and some are decorated surgical masks.

The Mayoral race in Bloomington could turn into a three-way contest. Radio host Ian Bayne is passing petitions.Bayne said his vision of the city is a…

The Bloomington City Council will consider renewing and updating an electric utility contract originally passed in 1965. If approved, Corn Belt Electric…

The Bloomington Election Commission has dismissed one of the petition challenges to Mayor Tari Renner's candidacy.The commission did toss out some of the…

Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang is among the front-runners to succeed Mayor Bill de Blasio, but many voters are still undecided.

We talk to some voters and non-voters to get their thoughts on the elections, and why they did or did not vote today: Laura McCallum visits folks at the Witney Senior Center in St. Cloud, Minnesota; Gretchen Lehman talks to customers at the Kay Kitchen, a cafe in St. Joseph, Minnesota; Keith McKeen interviews voters at polling stations in the second district in Maine; Andrea Deleon does the same in the first district in Maine; Josh Levs talks with people in downtown Atlanta; Steve Bussalachi talked with voters at the polls in Madison, Wisconsin, and with shoppers at the city's Southtown Mall.

Noah talks with NPR's Wade Goodwin in Atlanta about a published report that says the investigation into the bombing at the Olympics is focusing on the security guard who first reported the bomb to the police. Wade says this is just one of several theories the FBI is considering as it tries to track down the person who planted the pipe bomb on Saturday morning. 2. CENTENNIAL PARK REOPENS -- NPR's Adam Hockberg reports that thousands packed the ceremonies for the re-opening of Olympic Park in the heart of Atlanta today in a determined show of defiance to terrorist threats. The park, in the heart of the city was shut down after a pipe bomb explosion killed one woman and injured more than a hundred others.

As autumn begins, the nation is in the midst of a mix of seasons. It's blistering hot in some regions, bitter cold elsewhere. And in some places, the seasons seem to change daily. That's what it's like right now in Utah, where NPR's Howard Berkes lives.

As many as 300,000 young girls -- some as young as 11 -- are working as prostitutes in America. As NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports in Part Four of the series Girls and the Juvenile Justice System, officials in San Francisco are trying to help girls leave the streets by treating them as victims, not criminals. Listen to previous reports in the series.

San Francisco is known more for its natural beauty and Victorian charm than for its contemporary architecture. But this fall the city is taking a big chance on the new de Young Museum, a 300,000 square foot facility sits smack in the middle of Golden Gate Park. Cy Musiker reports.