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Alexandria Duval, who was accused of deliberately driving off a cliff and killing her identical twin sister, Anastasia, was found not guilty of murder on Thursday in a nearly weeklong bench trial.

NPR's College Podcast Challenge received more than 500 entries in its third year. We bring you some of their stories from students around the country.

American nun Sister Rose Pacatte shares her hopes for women in the Roman Catholic Church after the election of Pope Leo XIV last week.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Sister Simone Campbell about the Catholic Church's reaction to this latest sex abuse scandal. She leads NETWORK, a "progressive voice within the Catholic community."

Steven Petrow's sister was dying of cancer. She chose to take advantage of a law that lets doctors prescribe terminally ill patients life-ending medications.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with author Jennifer Weiner about her latest book -- The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits.

Linda Hatfield says her grandmother never ever gave up on bringing missing World War II casualty Clarence Brotherton home to Gibson City. She refused to put up a marker because she didn't want him to think she had given up on him. 77 years later Brotherton's body has come back to central Illinois. A new music venue comes to downtown Bloomington. A big chain restaurant opens soon on the east side of town. And there's a new brew pub coming to Lexington, Illinois. The Normal Public Library is collecting remembrances and recollections of 9-11 as the 20th anniversary of those attacks approaches. And taking down a big central Illinois bridge all at one go is almost as interesting as engineering exercise as building one.

A Bloomington alderman who owns rental property herself said she thinks the city should set some rules for landlords in hopes of reducing unsightly bulk…

The NCAA men's basketball tournament gets underway on Thursday. Normally, March Madness is a truly wild tournament. This year, because of COVID-19, it's going to have a very different look.

Nominees for the 2018 World Press Photo contest are both newsy and unexpected: child jockeys, a blindfolded rhino, cave-dwellers in China.