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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.
An immigrant rights group will spend millions and knock on tens of thousands of doors to fire up Latino voters ahead of the November midterms, in the hopes of electing progressive candidates who will push back against...
Read article →Just months after federal officials joined Chesapeake Bay states to renew their pledge to restore the nation's largest estuary, President Donald Trump on Wednesday rescinded an Obama-era executive order that called fo...
Read article →U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Christian Castro, who is accused of unjustifiably shooting Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis through the closed door of a north Minneapolis home in January, made his first appearanc...
Read article →Georgia seems poised to switch to a hand-marked paper ballot system for the 2028 election, but researchers and cybersecurity experts say there is a lot more to consider to ensure that voting stays secure and free from...
Read article →Voting rights groups and Democratic officials are looking to defend against what they see as possible election interference from the Trump administration ahead of the upcoming midterm elections, now that they’ve won a...
Read article →Voting rights groups and Democratic officials are looking to defend against what they see as possible election interference from the Trump administration ahead of the upcoming midterm elections, now that they’ve won a...
Read article →A federal judge who issued several critical rulings of the Trump administration during Operation Metro Surge last winter told The New York Times in a rare interview that the federal government’s actions during the cra...
Read article →Changes proposed in the Blueprint for Maryland's Future, to shift Community Schools' emphasis to investments that support reading and math, is a crucial change, write Trish Brennan-Gac and Clarence Crawford, that need...
Read article →Congressional representatives implored Black citizens to vote this fall, saying during a two-hour- plus town hall at the Congressional Black Caucus’s annual legislative conference Thursday that the fate of "Black Amer...
Read article →The GEO Group operates Moshannon Valley under an agreement with Clearfield County, in which the local government serves as a pass-through for more than $5 million a month to skirt a ban on federal agencies contracting...
Read article →Maryland health officials are warning that people who visited several locations in Ocean City earlier this month may have been exposed to measles, after an out-of-state resident who was infected with the virus visited...
Read article →With Americans showing increasing concern about the integrity of the midterm elections, a Florida voting rights advocate said Thursday that there have been no major changes to election laws in the Sunshine State this ...
Read article →Michigan’s business leaders are going all in on support for the U.S. Senate bid of Republican nominee Mike Rogers. On Thursday, both the Detroit Regional Chamber and the National Federation of Independent Business ann...
Read article →Residents are speaking out against the construction of a carbon dioxide pipeline they say will bring risks right up to their backyards and near schools.
Read article →Nevadans this year have the opportunity to double down on the state’s abortion protections with Question 6. Abortion in Nevada is currently legal up to 24 weeks after the start of the pregnancy and after 24 weeks if a...
Read article →In the course of a week, I found myself defending my political views to a close relative, and then defending his politics to a potential date on Hinge. I recently shared an Instagram post that stated that all the nati...
Read article →Woodford County has approved an ordinance this week to permanently ban data center construction, the first Kentucky county to do so and among a handful of local governments across the country to take such a strict sta...
Read article →The Clark County Education Association is calling on Nevada lawmakers to stop pushing to ban data centers entirely and instead focus their efforts on ensuring revenue from the data center boom benefits public educatio...
Read article →The president of Baltimore City Community College defended the school against a recent state audit that found management problems and the potential payment of financial aid to nonexistent "ghost students," but lawmake...
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 →A steady downpour soaked Midtown on a recent sultry afternoon. Still, customers patiently stood by the CreoleKC food truck parked near 33rd and Main streets, content to wait for the Haitian cuisine “born from the stre...
Read article →Concerned that Nevada agencies have relied on artificial intelligence without much oversight, state lawmakers are proposing legislation to establish basic standards on how the technology is used by state and local gov...
Read article →In a crowded school cafeteria in Cumberland Monday evening, residents of the rural county gathered to hear Dominion Energy representatives detail the gas plant the utility is pitching to the local leaders and state re...
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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