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More than half of U.S. states saw a decline in licensed foster homes from 2021 to 2022. In Nevada, the decline was nearly 18%. In South Carolina, it was a 61% decline, the largest of any state.

Kids housed in casino hotels? It's a workaround as U.S. sees decline in foster homes

A nationwide decline in foster home spots has led to dire situations around the country. In rural northeastern Nevada, officials resorted to housing children in casino hotels for short stints.

FILE - Security fences surround the Illinois Department of Corrections' Logan Correctional Center on Nov. 18, 2016, in Lincoln, Ill.

Future of Lincoln's Logan Correctional Center is in flux under rebuild plan

A state plan to rebuild two aging prisons has some state and local government leaders in Logan County concerned about the future of a facility that provides nearly 500 jobs in the area.

Debris from a building is seen along Route 36 in Canisteo, N.Y., on Friday after remnants of Tropical Storm Debby swept through the area.

Debby finally moves out of the U.S., though risk from flooded rivers remains

Debby’s last day over the U.S. before blowing into Canada Saturday inundated south-central New York and north-central Pennsylvania with rain, prompting evacuations and rescues by helicopter.

Appellate justices listen to oral arguments in a case at Illinois State University

Barton McNeil and Jamie Snow seek to overturn new trial denials in back-to-back hearings at ISU

The two Bloomington men convicted of unrelated murders have maintained their innocence for decades. Both were denied new trials in circuit courts as part of their post-conviction appeals.

President Joe Biden speaks at the Gila River Crossing School in the Gila River Indian Community, in Laveen Village, near Phoenix, Ariz., on Oct. 25.

Biden offers apology for 'horrific era' of U.S. Native American boarding schools

Biden visited Arizona on Friday to apologize for the horrors of the federal Indian boarding schools that ran for over 150 years, and also trumpet the administration's policies to help Native American communities.

Transportation Planning Driven By Survey Results

The Long Range Transportation survey conducted by the McLean County Regional Planning Commission (MCRPC) late last year is providing direction for the…

People protest a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for municipal workers on Oct. 28 in New York City. Polling, vaccination and mortality data all suggest that Republicans are the biggest group of unvaccinated Americans and are suffering the worst consequences as a result.

Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame

An analysis by NPR shows that since the vaccine rollout, counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump have had more than twice the COVID mortality rates of those that voted for Joe Biden.

Sandbags are distributed at Mills Pond Park in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday ahead of subtropical storm Nicole.

Tropical Storm Nicole churns toward the Bahamas and Florida

The storm is expected to strengthen into a hurricane. It's headed for parts of the Bahamas and Florida that are still feeling the effects of previous hurricanes.

Chico Housing Action Team organizers Leslie Johnson, left, Charles Withuhn, center, and Bill Kurnizki, right, in the field in south Chico where they plan to soon break ground on a 33-unit tiny home community for homeless adults called Simplicity Village.

Tiny Homes For Homeless Get The Go-Ahead In The Wake of California's Worst Wildfire

California's deadliest wildfire worsened an already bad housing crisis in rural Butte County. But the fire has jump-started a local effort to build a tiny home community for area homeless.

Kentucky Weighs Proposal To Allow School Staff To Carry Guns

Last month, a shooter killed two students and injured 18 other people in a Kentucky high school. The state legislature is now considering a bill that would tap teachers or staff to be school marshals.

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