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Illinois Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon will run for State Comptroller in 2014. The Carbondale Democrat is traveled across the state yesterday making her official…

A bill dealing with county jailers who don’t have a jail to run has passed the Kentucky Senate and now heads to the House. Under the bill, jailers would…

Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin has directed all flags at state office buildings be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Friday in honor of a…

Despite delayed Veteran’s Affairs payments military veterans enrolled at Austin Peay State University are again able to purchase textbooks without…

SONA PUJARI: STREET BANKER: The continuation of producer Julian Crandall Hollick's "Apna Street" series about the pavement dwellers in Bombay. The series focuses on a group called "Mahila Milan" (MILE-uh mil-lun), or "Women Together", who have joined forces to give Bombay's poor some political and social muscle. One of the ways they accomplish this is by insisting that people save money. In this installment, Julian follows Sona Pujari (SOHN-yuh poo-JAHR-ree) as she makes the rounds, "forcing" people to contribute to their own savings accounts.

Hunter S. Thompson, the legendary and eccentric inventor of "gonzo journalism," was found dead Sunday in his home near Aspen, Colo. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 67.

Weekends at Bellevue is psychiatrist Julie Holland's account of her years treating patients in a New York City psychiatric ER. She says one of the hardest parts of her job was figuring out which patients were manic or schizophrenic and which were high on cocaine or methamphetamines.

For soldier Brian Turner, words have the impact of bullets. His poems provide a first- person account of war; The New York Times praised their "attention to both the terrors and the beauty he found among Iraq's ruins."

Evan Mandery's A Wild Justice is an account of the legal battles that led to the U.S. Supreme Court striking down capital punishment, then reversing course four years later. He says that today, prisoners who are sentenced to death have a 10 percent chance of actually being executed.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., a member of the Armed Services Committee who heard testimony from Gen. Austin "Scott" Miller about the messy withdrawal from Afghanistan.