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  • The source of the paint spill was a business along Gill Street, according to a statement from the City of Bloomington. The business was not identified.
  • It has become too expensive to maintain the machines that read the old floppies. Even Sony, which used to make the disks, stopped manufacturing them a decade ago.
  • A local theater company has reportedly been sending tutu-clad dancers to spin and twirl through the streets, while cars are stuck at traffic lights. No reports of fed-up drivers joining them.
  • A 22-year-old man faces charges after leading police across several Tazewell County communities in pursuit of a stolen RV. The Pekin Police Department...
  • Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot wants Illinois to help Chicago with its ballooning pension payments, which are squeezing other priorities in the state budget.
  • Theaters all over the nation are making a statement by using the image of the Ghostlight to fight against intolerance as the nation prepares for a new…
  • Over Labor Day weekend, Kyle, Texas, is hoping to set a world record by gathering the most people named Kyle. The name has to be spelled: Kyle.
  • Natasha Yefimova reports that officials in St. Petersburg, Russia, are considering lyrics for the city anthem. For decades, in train stations, at weddings and official city functions, residents have played music from a ballet based on Alexander Pushkin's poem about the city called The Bronze Horseman. Now, a prominent composer is suggesting lyrics for the hymn. He's re-writing the Pushkin poem to fit the meter... and has omitted themes that could be politically sensitive. The Petersburg city establishment wants to avoid the kind of controversy President Vladimir Putin stirred up when he restored the music of the Soviet national anthem, adding new lyrics.
  • Joanna Slaybaugh is trading her career at a headhunting firm for dreams of writing and a part-time job. NPR's Ketzel Levine reports in the first of a series on new challenges and goals in the workplace.
  • NPR's Scott Simon speaks to the International Rescue Committee's head of emergencies, Bob Kitchen, about the aid organization's decision to close all its programming in Gaza City, amid an Israeli military takeover of the city.
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