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The Lee Board of County Commissioners voted to accept a $2.5 million grant from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) on Tuesday, Oct. 5.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell, who this week became the Democratic candidate running for Congress in Missouri, besting U.S. Rep. Cori Bush.

Willis defeated six-term Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard, and her former boss, in Tuesday's runoff. Howard has been dogged by scandal, including his handling of the Rayshard Brooks case.

In January, the Collier County Affordable Housing Advisory Committee unanimously re-elected Joseph Trachtenberg as its chairman. This week, the Collier County Board of County Commissioners unanimously removed him. Trachtenberg said his removal was because he spoke up publicly about inaction by the commissioners. A commissioner seemed to agree that his public comments were the issue.

Most California elections will be forced to use state-approved machines to count ballots under a bill that follows an attempt by right-wing supervisors in one county to hand-count future elections.

A judge ordered Fulton County to make plans to unseal at least 142,000 mail-in ballots it received in the election, clearing the way for another potential review of the ballots.

Facing a $46.7 million budget deficit, the Lee County School District has informed 457 employees that their contracts would not be renewed for the next school year. Of those, 275 are teachers.

Leaders from Florida’s 67 counties will learn about a buzzword this week: resilience. "It’s about understanding your neighbors, that their shortfalls...

Lee County’s Juvenile Assessment Center (JAC) is distributing free Drug Test Kits to any parent that wants one.The county stopped giving away the kits a…

This year’s “Operation Spring Cleaning” was a huge success. More than half the counties in the state participated in an effort to get controlled...