KPC News. Sept. 19, 2021. Editorial: Keep school boards non-partisan Among elected officials, most will tell you that serving on the school board is probably the most thankless elected office a person can hold. An idea coming from a northeast Indian...

Bloomington Pantagraph. September 18, 2021. Editorial: Positive signs at signing The presence of elected Republicans beside Gov. J.B. Pritzker as a bill signing this week shows sometimes politicians can put people over party. Pritzker signed into l...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - One of two men suspected in the shooting deaths of four people whose bodies were found in an abandoned SUV in Wisconsin has been arrested in Arizona, authorities said. Antoine Darnique Suggs, 38, turned himself in to police in Gil...

CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago woman has been charged with obtaining dozens of young homicide victims' death certificates and using them to defraud the government out of thousands of dollars in tax refunds and coronavirus stimulus payments. Katrina Pierc...

RENO, Nev. (AP) - A New York columnist who moved to Virginia City in 1950 and restarted the newspaper where Mark Twain wrote a century earlier, the former head of the Nevada Press Association and three reporters whose bylines were fixtures in northe...

CARY, Ill. (AP) - Timmothy Etters, a longtime Chicago area muralist whose art work adorns many schools, has died at age 52. Visitation and funeral services were set for Sunday, according to Kahle-Moore Funeral Home in Cary where Etters grew up. He ...

CHICAGO (AP) - Dozens of employees of the Art Institute of Chicago rallied this week in support of a move to start a union at one of the country's largest art museums. Organizers hope the museum will voluntarily recognize the union if enough employ...

CHICAGO (AP) - The Chicago Park District said it plans to put life rings along the Lake Michigan waterfront but only in areas that are considered safe to swim, upsetting the mother of a college student who drowned off a pier. "I'm infuriated,'œ said...