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Community Unit District 300 has tapped a Florida administrator to become its next superintendent, a top official confirmed Wednesday night.
Fred Heid, chief academic officer for Duval County Public Schools in Jacksonville, Florida, will assume the h...
Updated: May 15, 2014 at 01:46 PM
Lake County officials are getting closer to giving county boards a better chance to fire appointees.
Why would they want to?
Lake County Board Chairman Aaron Lawlor points to the $122,000 the Lake County Housing Authority board paid to former CEO Je...
Updated: May 02, 2014 at 04:05 PM
SPRINGFIELD - When questions arose about political hiring at the Illinois Department of Transportation, Gov. Pat Quinn's administration evaluated several jobs that already had been filled to ensure they were among the few positions where an applican...
Updated: Apr 24, 2014 at 07:54 PM
Some of Illinois' highest-profile Republicans voiced support Tuesday for an immigration overhaul that's stalled in the U.S. House as a "morally right" and business-minded decision, an election-year move they hoped would help break the stalemate.
The...
Updated: Apr 22, 2014 at 09:20 PM
A decision on who will lead Community Unit District 300 could be made in two weeks, a district official said Monday.
The school board has narrowed its list of candidates to two finalists for the superintendent's job. The board will interview the pai...
Updated: Apr 15, 2014 at 06:33 AM
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Ted Kennedy Jr. is planning to run for the state Senate in Connecticut in his first bid for public office, two people briefed on the decision told The Associated Press on Monday.
The son of the late U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massac...
Updated: Apr 07, 2014 at 11:56 AM
KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghans and the international community hailed its presidential election as a triumph of democracy over violence Sunday, despite complaints about ballot shortages and sporadic fraud after millions of people braved a Taliban thre...
Updated: Apr 07, 2014 at 08:50 AM
NEW YORK — Jimmy Fallon's fast start replacing Jay Leno on the “Tonight” show the past two months had a secondary effect: David Letterman suddenly seemed old.
The Top 10 list, the ironic detachment, even the set at the Ed Sullivan Theater. Time does...
Updated: Apr 06, 2014 at 08:54 AM
MILWAUKEE - Now that Marquette has hired a new president, the university can return to focusing on finding its next basketball coach.
Interim athletic director Bill Cords said Thursday that incoming President Michael Lovell will be intricately invol...
Updated: Mar 27, 2014 at 09:47 PM
Lawrence Walsh, the former prosecutor who spent seven years investigating officials in President Ronald Reagan's administration for their roles in the Iran-Contra scandal, has died. He was 102.
Best known for the Iran-Contra probe in the 1980s, Wals...
Updated: Mar 23, 2014 at 11:13 PM