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Brian Beals was convicted in the 1988 murder of a 6-year-old. At the time, Beals, a 22-year-old student at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, was home in Chicago during Thanksgiving break.

The captain of the 6,852-ton ferry has been criticized for allowing 30 minutes to pass before giving an evacuation order. He has been arrested, even as a recovery effort continues.

The high heat of California wildfires transformed a benign metal into a toxic form, new research finds. Exposure to high levels of hexavalent chromium is linked to increased rates of lung cancer.

Last school year, the county received $60 million in local property tax revenue. About 80% of that went toward increasing teacher pay.

Stocks fell sharply across the globe on Monday, as worries about the U.S. economy triggered a worldwide sell-off. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled more than 1,000 points or 2.6%.

From January through March, Hillsborough County saw over 78% hotel occupancy, 4% higher than the state average and 20% higher than the national average.

The $6.4 million would have provided free menstrual products for K-12 students.

In all, 16 of WUSF’s journalists received individual honors and the entire news team was recognized for its work covering Hurricane Idalia.

A walk in the park won’t cure chronic spinal pain — but for some, it’s the best medicine they’ve found yet.

Even if you have no reasonable expectation of ever donning a military uniform, the test is a great gauge of overall fitness.

Researchers recently found that dieting cats undergo a significant change in the populations of bacteria in their gut. In fact, it’s thought to be like what happens in their people.

Physicians worry that the continual grind of life in the computer age takes a cumulative toll on the body. How people try to combat that midday energy drain is instructive.

Tampa Bay earned home-ice advantage and will open against the Montreal Canadiens on Sunday.

Tampa Bay led by 14 in the fourth, and Atlanta converted a third-and-28 on the game-winning drive. The Bucs lost for the fifth time in six games to fall a half-game behind Carolina in the NFC South.

Can you call the events of Jan. 6 an insurgency? NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling what he thinks based on his experiences in Iraq.

Facebook's Oversight Board sent the decision of whether to let the former president back on the platform back to the company itself, and it's a critical one for Trump's political future.

More than 500 companies submitted applications for 6.5 million vaping products to the FDA. The agency ruled on some of them but did not yet make a decision on products made by Juul.

The U.S. economy grew 6.5% pace in the April-June quarter, continuing to strengthen from the worst of the pandemic. A slowdown is inevitable; the question is how much it will slow.

Sixty-one years ago, U.S. Rangers stormed the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc to break through Nazi lines. Historian Douglas Brinkley talks about this historical event and the rise of the 'New Patriotism.'

There were lots of times during the recent presidential debates where Marco Rubio was taken to task for missing more than his share of votes in the…

Survivors and organizers of the Nova Music Festival in Israel where hundreds were killed or taken hostage created an exhibit called "October 7, 6:29am — The Moment the Music Stood Still."

Mitch McConnell said that former President Donald Trump is not immune from criminal and civil litigation. NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Michael McConnell, a constitutional scholar, how that could work.

A leaked CDC document compared it to the highly contagious children's disease. Data does not support this claim. Nonetheless, the variant is one of the world's most contagious respiratory diseases.

The U.S. stock of flu vaccine was cut nearly in half Tuesday as Britain shut down a major vaccine supplier. Facing a record shortage, authorities are urging healthy Americans to defer getting shots so that medication will be available for those most at risk. Hear NPR's Melissa Block and Dr. Jerry Avorn of the Harvard Medical School.

The family is using more than $6,000 in community donations to rebuild their mobile home after a tree fell during Hurricane Helene and damaged the roof.