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Karen Thompson Walker's new novel imagines a pandemic that puts victims into a deep sleep, giving them strange dreams from which they may not wake up — and panicking those still awake.

The author of the bestselling Shopaholic series is back, with a new novel about a woman who's addicted not to shopping but to fixing the lives of the people around her — at the expense of her own.

Officials say pets that don't previously show signs of aggression may still bite a postal worker, and the agency is asking residents to secure their dogs before mail carriers arrive.

For an extra fee, you can get a doctor or nurse practitioner to make a house call to check on a sick kid. The services can save a trip to the emergency room for problems that crop up after hours.

Plans for a new regional 100-bed behavioral health hospital in north Peoria have cleared a key regulatory step.

A San Francisco dealer quadrupled his income by moving to New York after California legalized medical marijuana.

Pledge 51 creates applications for Nigeria's low-tech cellphones. The company thinks it could grow its business with help from foreign investors, but Nigeria's low GDP has made that difficult. If the country changes the way it calculates this figure, that could help Pledge 51 bring in new investment.

As Memorial Day nears, businesses that rely on tourism worry about travel advisories issued by the NAACP and Human Rights Campaign following Gov. DeSantis policies on diversity, race and identity.

As states begin to require people to requalify for the free health insurance, many who are eligible are losing coverage because of administrative snafus.

Agency looks to open 5,000 new slots in underserved communities