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The Decatur Park District is accepting applications for a board commissioner position.

Napa County’s two longest-tenured supervisors say they won’t run for reelection and potential candidates are emerging for races that will help decide the future of world-famous wine country. Supervisors Brad Wageknecht and Diane Dillon will leave office in January 2023. The June 7, 2022 primary election will have no incumbents for the 1st District and 3rd District seats, the only ones on the ballot. “It is a huge-stakes election,” said David McCuan, a political science profe...

The time has come to leave the sins and wickedness of the 45th president to the criminal justice system — and to turn attention and energy to the challenges and

Note: This article has been updated to include additional information from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Athens-Clarke County Police shot and killed Timothy Daniel Statham, 37, around 9:17 a.m. on Thursday after attempting to stop him while he drove a vehicle stolen out of Jackson County, according to press releases from the ACCPD and Georgia Bureau of Investigation. As police followed the vehicle, it left the roadway in the area of Newton Bridge Road and Fritz Mar Lane, and Statham fled...

The proposal Thursday included moving the program to the Office of Public Instruction instead of the Department of Commerce.

BRENDEN MOORE Illinois state Rep. Michael Madigan, who had served as state House speaker for decades until he was ousted in January, said he is resigning his seat in the Legislature. Former House Speaker Michael Madigan announced Thursday his resignation from the Chicago-based House seat he’s held since 1971, a move that was expected after his 36-year reign as speaker came to an end in January. Known as the “Velvet Hammer” for quietly wielding the vast power he ...

A sweeping gun control bill stoking red-state resistance may prove more of a blessing than a curse for Second Amendment supporters.

By Daniel P. Cortez THE Republican Party of Virginia’s attempt to select nominees for their 2021 GOP gubernatorial slate has been a genuine embarrassment. The State Central Committee and RPV Chairman Richard Anderson have failed to reach legal consensus for either a primary or a convention process to select candidates before their Feb. 27 meeting. Anderson’s actions have appeared more like herding conservative cats who voted repeatedly for an in-person convention despite C...

Apparently, Adam Kinzinger’s family hates him now. Alexander Hamilton would not be surprised.

SPRINGFIELD — Officials from the hotel, restaurant and convention industries told a state Senate panel Thursday that they need a clear plan for how they will be allowed to reopen as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes, warning that without such a plan, many will go out of business permanently. “We need to know … a strategy, we need to know the metrics as we move forward because we cannot, we cannot lose another summer here in the state of Illinois,” Sam Toia, president and CEO of...