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Fifty years ago in a Washington, DC nightclub, the Ramsey Lewis Trio recorded "The In Crowd," a rare jazz single that landed on the pop charts. Critic Kevin Whitehead says the fans were half the show.

NPR's TV critic Eric Deggans is most excited about ABC bringing the Muppets to network television for the first time in nearly 20 years.

A man is being held by police after dropping a gun that went off on a Megabus traveling on I-90 Tuesday night. No one was injured. The bus pulled over at…

Illinois House Democrats continued to advance budget means that would restore funding to human services programs that the governor proposes cutting....

Gov. Bruce Rauner's right-to-work proposal will get a hearing today in the Illinois House. Unions are putting pressure on lawmakers to vote against the…

The Amtrak passenger train was going more than 100 miles per hour when it derailed north of Philadelphia. Positive train control could have automatically slowed the train down on that stretch of rail.

An Illinois House committee held the first hearing on Gov. Bruce Rauner’s pension proposal. Under his plan, workers would keep all the benefits they…

A man in North Adams, Mass., wanted bears off his property. Police say he got drunk and pulled out his axe. Authorities advise residents not to chase bears through the woods drunk with a dull tool.

The jury already convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Now jurors decide whether he will live or die.

Republicans are critical of President Obama's foreign policy with the rise of the Islamic State militant group and the Iran negotiations. But the GOP faces its own challenges related to world affairs.