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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.
WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice Tuesday issued a new indictment against Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the man accused of killing one West Virginia National Guard member and wounding another in an attack in the nat...
Read article →Speaking at a Dearborn Heights press conference Tuesday, U.S. Reps. Debbie Dingell (D-Ann Arbor) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) relied heavily on the framework of water as a human right in explaining the need for their...
Read article →Issues with the state’s new tax processing system, which was transitioned away from a 40-year-old legacy system to an updated platform last year, were at the center of a tense Tuesday meeting of the House Oversight Co...
Read article →WASHINGTON — U.S. senators from both political parties said Tuesday they had yet to see the text of the deal Trump administration officials struck over the weekend to end the war in Iran, though several indicated any ...
Read article →WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education announced sweeping efforts Tuesday to outsource its special education programs and civil rights enforcement to other agencies, in another major step by President Donald Tr...
Read article →A Senate committee on Tuesday advanced a bill that would prohibit local governments from adopting a property tax rate exceeding the revenue-neutral tax rate after a tax revaluation unless they publicize their intent t...
Read article →Pennsylvania is one of 12 states that has a school nurse staffing mandate. One nurse per 1,500 students is twice the federal recommendation.
Read article →Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier and a coalition of state, federal, and private partners warned Floridians Tuesday of a heightened risk of human trafficking, a day after Miami hosted its first of seven FIFA Wor...
Read article →A year after her husband was shot and killed at a No Kings protest in Salt Lake City, Laura Ah Loo wants him to be remembered for his kindness and the ways he stood up for others. She’s also expressing frustrati...
Read article →Louisiana school leaders remain confused about the details of Gov. Jeff Landry’s plan to shift $168 million from school district operations into teacher stipends. A statement the governor released over his social medi...
Read article →After the U.S. Supreme Court declined last week to intervene in an Alabama case, the effort to end executions by nitrogen hypoxia could shift to Louisiana, where the state has already carried out the death penalty onc...
Read article →WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education announced sweeping efforts Tuesday to outsource its special education programs and civil rights enforcement to other agencies, in another major step by President Donald Tr...
Read article →Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday introduced a teacher pay bill that would give larger raises to veteran educators, arguing that North Carolina has spent years recruiting new teachers while doing too little to keep expe...
Read article →Most immigrants arrested in Operation Metro Surge were sent to Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas, after being detained at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minnesota. Nearly half of them were eventually d...
Read article →As election officials across the country steel themselves for the midterm elections in less than five months, President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting voting by mail threatens to upend their preparations. ...
Read article →The Missouri State Board of Education on Monday named educational consultant Stacey Preis as the state’s interim commissioner, putting a former department official and legislative researcher in charge as the agency na...
Read article →As election officials across the country steel themselves for the midterm elections in less than five months, President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting voting by mail threatens to upend their preparations.
Read article →Missouri election officials will begin mailing Aug. 4 primary ballots Tuesday to military and overseas voters using the state’s gerrymandered congressional districts, even as the legal status of those districts remain...
Read article →This story was originally published by Canary Media. The Ohio Supreme Court recently blocked a permit for what would be the state’s largest solar installation. The 800-megawatt Oak Run Solar Project still has a p...
Read article →More than 500 people filled an Eau Claire event center Saturday evening to drink old fashioneds while connecting over a collective desire to prevent “oligarchs” and big tech companies from constructing AI data centers...
Read article →Frederick has more planned hyperscale data centers than any other county in Maryland, scheduled to come online in as little as three years, prompting pushback amid local concerns that the area will soon resemble “data...
Read article →“My toilet is leaking and draining all over my floor. In the master bedroom, with an odor,” Park’s Edge resident Lanika Hester emailed to her property manager at 9:55 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. A foul-smelling su...
Read article →A two-term city councilman and a state lawmaker who serves as the Nevada Democratic Party chair are among the candidates seeking to be elected the next mayor of North Las Vegas. Five candidates are running...
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