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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.
A plan to slash The large-scale commercial harvest of Atlantic menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay later this year could help starving osprey chicks and other struggling fish but could also hurt a Virginia fishing village ...
Read article →Florida voters have until 7 p.m. local time Tuesday to cast ballots in the primary elections. As election results become available Tuesday night, the Phoenix will provide updates on key races across the Sunshine State...
Read article →A Trump-linked law firm should not get to rewrite a description of a Republican-backed ballot referral that would make sweeping changes to Arizona election laws, the Democratic secretary of state argued to the state’s...
Read article →A federal district judge in Maryland Monday overturned Trump administration plans to build the next FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., restoring Greenbelt as the likely next home for the agency.
Read article →Whether voters this fall will get a chance to weigh in on a ballot measure to implement sweeping new restrictions on the state’s billion-dollar universal school voucher program hinges entirely on whether the Arizona S...
Read article →Inside the vast QCells factory in Cartersville, Georgia, workers — and a bevy of robots — move ultra-thin slices of polysilicon through a lengthy series of machines and chemical baths to transform them into what are k...
Read article →Kindergarten immunization rates are falling and vaccine exemptions are on the rise, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released this week. In a press release, the CDC said the data s...
Read article →Following a Friday announcement that the U.S. Department of Energy would continue to extend the operations of a west Michigan coal plant, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says she’s gearing up to file yet another...
Read article →Attorneys for Kalshi say Nevada gaming regulators are targeting the prediction market and wasting taxpayer money on behalf of casinos. The state contends Kalshi is dragging its feet when it comes to complying with a c...
Read article →Democratic election officials criticized Homeland Security leaders for lackluster support as the midterm election looms.
Read article →In both chambers of the legislature, only Republicans voted to pass House Bill 958.
Read article →This commentary was originally published by The Conversation. The Adams County Jail, just north of Denver, does not allow in-person visits. Over the course of their incarceration, people detained there will never shar...
Read article →An effort to bar certain utilities and government contractors from making political contributions cleared its final major hurdle Monday, finalizing its language for the November ballot. After members of the Michigan B...
Read article →Pennsylvania's Attorney General says more than a dozen current or former Penn State students at the University Park campus are facing drug trafficking charges.
Read article →A DTE-funded group, the Ann Arbor Responsible Energy Coalition, is suing the city of Ann Arbor and its clerk, Jacqueline Beaudry, over Beaudry’s certification of petitions which could result in the city taking the fir...
Read article →A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has disqualified the Pinal County Attorney’s Office and the Pinal County Superior Court from trying a high-profile capital murder case plagued by legal scandal. Judge Patricia St...
Read article →• “Suspect in Virginia State University shooting arrested, found hiding in closet.” — WRIC • “Henry County suspends Flock camera access as privacy debate grows.” — Martinsville Bulletin • “Virginia Beach mulls data ce...
Read article →A corrections officer at Newberry Correctional Facility in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula digitally altered a Native American prisoner’s ID to depict him wearing a feathered headdress, stereotypical Indigenous attire and ...
Read article →A staff member in the North Carolina auditor’s office used mentions of the wishes of his boss and the state Republican Party in an attempt to sway decisions on at least two counties’ early voting plans. Hundreds of pa...
Read article →Yee Leng Xiong, a Marathon County school board treasurer and county board member, will face Republican State Treasurer John Leiber in November in the only race for a statewide office held by a member of the Republican...
Read article →Harford County officials and residents say they’re concerned by a proposal for a utility-scale battery storage facility on a hillside along the “pristine” Deer Creek, a tributary to the Susquehanna River. It's one of ...
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