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Madelyn Beck is a regional Illinois reporter, based in Galesburg. On top of her work for Harvest Public Media, she also contributes to WVIK, Tri-States Public Radio and the Illinois Newsroom collaborative.

People all over the world celebrate Hanukkah by lighting candles on the menorah and feasting on fried foods.

Monday's WNBA Draft is the latest jewel in the crown of Bueckers, the 6-foot guard who barely a week ago led her UConn Huskies to their first national championship in a decade.

NPR.org's new interactive scorecard suggests that President Obama may have a somewhat easier path to 270 electoral votes than Mitt Romney, needing to win fewer states. But that's not a given. As you play, you'll be able to come up with plenty of combinations that would get Romney over the top.

A “meadup” can be made in Columbus at the Bearded Viking Mead Company. Traveling off Highway 90 to skirt the downtown, nicknamed “Sheep Dip,” and over the railroad tracks and across the Yellowstone River is a Quonset hut where the ancient beverage, mead, is made. Here, CEO and founder JT “Viko” Robertson crafts an ancient form of wine made with honey instead of grapes.

After a mostly scoreless game, the Los Angeles Dodgers blasted ahead of the Houston Astros in the top of the ninth inning with five runs, evening up the best-of-seven series Saturday, now 2-2.

On Sunday, the selection committee set the field for the annual descent into March Madness. The four No. 1 seeds are defending champion Villanova, North Carolina, Kansas and Gonzaga.

A new survey of the best cities for business finds that affordability is more important than being fashionable. As a result, Inc. magazine put Riverside and San Bernardino, Calif., and the New Jersey cities of Camden and Newark high on its list. See the magazine's lists of the best and worst places for companies to thrive.

Hispanic women in California are earning the lowest amount of any race, anywhere, in the United States.

On this episode of Field Days, Kira Jarosz of Black Dog Farm, a pasture-based pork, poultry, and egg farm in Livingston, packs farm orders for home delivery, on-farm pick up and the farmer’s market all at the same time.