Death rates in the region have increased over the course of the pandemic.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and President Biden are speaking at the White House as Breyer announces his retirement from the nation's highest court.

Dan Klefstad and Leah Lerner report the morning news for January 27th.

This week on Blanket Fort Radio Theater's production of "The Undaunted Women of Nanking," in the days leading up to the Lunar New Year, more arrangements are made for when the refugees will be ordered to return to their homes. Church services continue. Minnie still awaits mail from home as she and Mrs. Tsen prepare for New Year celebrations.Blanket Fort Radio Theater is a storytelling initiative of SIU Press in collaboration with the SIU Creative Writing Program and WSIU Radio.

Happy Thursday January 27, 2022. Here is your WSIU Almanac.

Later this spring some drug offenders could choose drug court, instead of prison.

They are examining whether these compounds could prepare the body to fight COVID better.

The nationwide blood shortage crisis has hospitals keeping a close eye on the blood supply.At Heartland Regional Medical Center, they’re managing elective surgeries on a case by case basis.

Xavier Lewis is currently being held in the Bent County Jail in Colorado awaiting extradition to Illinois.

Happy Wednesday, here is your WSIU Almanac for January 26, 2022.

Biographer and bestselling author Candice Millard talks with Paul Simon Public Policy Institute Director John Shaw about growing up in the public library, working at National Geographic, and her books about Teddy Roosevelt, James Garfield, and Winston Churchill.

The American Red Cross is at its lowest supply of blood in more than a decade. It’s declared a blood crisis.