An 18-year-old Alton man faces charges for shooting a 16-year-old on State Street, with police confirming it was not a random ...

Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result in a presidential pardon or commutation of sentence. Recent ...

Jackie White, a native of Centralia, Illinois, in 1968 became the first Black person to officiate an NBA game.

Garry Moore will present "Why Black History Month & DEI Matters" at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 17, at Laborers Local 362 Hall, 2012 Fox Creek Road in Bloomington.

Michele Emerson was a 9-year-old goalie. Traveling from Illinois to Canada for the 1978 International Silver Stick, she was ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more ... had not been announced and was pending a physical. The 40-year-old Scherzer was limited to ...

Dave Joens has led the Illinois State Archives, the government agency tasked with preserving official government documents ...

The job of caring for historic records has been a natural ... science and another in history—and a Ph. D. in Illinois history. While he was getting his master’s degrees, he interned with a newspaper ...

BLOOMINGTON, IL (02/06/2025)-- Patrick Waters, of Silver City, New Mexico, was named to the Dean's List for the fall semester of the 2024-25 academic year at Illinois Wesleyan University. Waters is a ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis read the newspapers and had breakfast on Sunday after a second night sleeping well at the hospital where the 88-year-old pope is being treated for a respiratory tract ...

Surveillance video from the bar shows the men were talking for about two minutes before the attack, a local news outlet ...

We’re calling on Gov. Pritzker to not increase taxes on Illinois families and businesses and present a transparent plan of ...