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The most important stories are often the ones that never trend nationally: a Mississippi town rebuilding two years after a devastating tornado, a Kansas newspaper whose offices were raided by its own police, and a Baltimore program selling vacant homes for $1. Trill News covers local news, small towns, and community stories from the places and people that mainstream media overlooks.
The U.S. Department of Education’s suspension this year of a comprehensive monitoring process puts billions of K-12 dollars at heightened risk of undetected waste, fraud and abuse, according to a new report by the non...
Read article →Nick Blanchard tumbled out of bed and poured himself a cup of ambition Friday morning, then headed straight to a table in front of the Wake County Express Library in downtown Raleigh. Blanchard and his friend Kelly Fo...
Read article →No other source reached more than 17%, according to the poll.
Read article →Lt. Gov. Caldwell stepped down after a report found he made crass remarks to subordinates and tried to get a girlfriend a new state job.
Read article →Attorney General Kris Mayes wants an appeals court to dissolve a trial court judge’s order that blocked her from prosecuting online prediction market company Kalshi for violating Arizona’s gambling laws. Her request c...
Read article →WASHINGTON — An appeals panel Friday seemed inclined to agree that more than 100 Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to a brutal prison in El Salvador are entitled to due process hearings to challenge their r...
Read article →Virginia has received a $7.2 million federal disaster-recovery grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to expand childcare in communities across Southwest and Southside Virginia, the governor’s off...
Read article →WASHINGTON — An appeals panel Friday seemed inclined to agree that more than 100 Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to a brutal prison in El Salvador are entitled to due process hearings to challenge their r...
Read article →In 1969, when I was just four years old, my parents enrolled me in Head Start at Annunciation Catholic Church on Detroit’s East Side. The teachers there fed me lunch, cared for me, and sparked a love of learning that ...
Read article →New federal rules likely will force three dozen states to reduce their annual Medicaid payments to doctors and hospitals by a total of more than $50 billion — potentially shrinking the number of providers willing to s...
Read article →The vote to hike teachers’ health benefit rates came after a warning from state officials that benefits may be halted in the new year without an agreement.
Read article →Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued new guidance to law enforcement officers on how to enforce personal protection orders, including those issued by Michigan’s tribal governments and courts. Those personal pr...
Read article →Martina Bauhaus, an attorney for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Dept. for almost two decades, is challenging Judge Jasmin Lilly-Spells, who is wrapping up her first term on the bench. District Court Dept. 23 hears ...
Read article →As physicians continue to navigate care for patients with complex pregnancies in states with abortion bans, a group of maternal-fetal medicine specialists has developed new guidelines to help providers in those states...
Read article →Republican Nevada State Controller Andy Matthews is seeking reelection this November as the state’s independent fiscal watchdog, while his challenger, Democrat Michael MacDougall, hopes a blue wave will help launch hi...
Read article →Five Nevada Board of Regents seats are on the ballot this year, but only one is an open seat not featuring an incumbent. That race, for District 5 in Southern Nevada, will bring to the board either a former state legi...
Read article →Dozens gathered in Grand Rapids Thursday to demand justice for Mario David Coronado Juárez, a 35-year-old undocumented immigrant from Guatemala who died days earlier after fleeing when ICE agents attempted to stop his...
Read article →Colorado’s first-ever state fair opened in Denver on the afternoon of Sept. 26, 1876, and “every means of transportation in the city was pressed into service” to ferry passengers to the 40-acre fairgrounds on its east...
Read article →The Board of Revenue Estimates added $320 million to its revenues forecast from March, but the report also highlighted concerns about growing inflation and a sharp drop in tax withholdings in the first half of the com...
Read article →Questions about labor protections, traffic and taxpayer costs filled a packed hearing Tuesday night in Largo, as the Prince George’s County Council heard from the public about the proposed Sphere at National Harbor.
Read article →The Office of Inspector General for Health did almost 1,400 audits and investigations over the last four years and found more than $42 million in improper or unrecovered payments -- but those reports have only recentl...
Read article →This story is made possible through a partnership between Interlochen Public Radio and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. A decades-old contaminated groundwater plume from industrial chemicals in Ant...
Read article →The town of Hudson has refused for months to take any steps to review and enforce its zoning code as it applies to a planned immigration detention center there, say the plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking to block the fac...
Read article →Out-of-state physicians need a New Jersey medical license to treat patients here using telehealth, a federal appeals court panel ruled Monday.
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