Articles filed under Illinois
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Illinois State University freezes tuition, room and boardMay 12, 2019 7:00 am - NORMAL, Ill. (AP) - Illinois State University is freezing tuition and room and board rates for the next academic year. The university's Board of Trustees took action Fri...
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EXCHANGE: Woman rebuilds her life after major health setbackMay 12, 2019 7:00 am - WHEATON, Ill. (AP) - Jen Kray found herself in a hospital bed, unable to move anything except her right thumb and her blue eyes. She had survived a risky brain surgery t...
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Karaoke contest returning to Illinois State FairMay 11, 2019 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois State Fair karaoke contest is returning this summer, and the winner will get to perform on the fair's biggest stage. Organizers sai...
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EXCHANGE: Students learn beekeeping, livestock, farm safetyMay 11, 2019 7:00 am - GRIGGSVILLE, Ill. (AP) - Griggsville-Perry first-grader Sadie Buss has her future all figured out. She plans to farm, and she wants to raise pigs and cows. Sadie and cla...
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Charges unlikely over misspending at Illinois housing agencyMay 11, 2019 7:00 am - CAIRO, Ill. (AP) - The former director of a southern Illinois housing authority is unlikely to face federal criminal charges for wrongly using agency money on personal e...
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Ex-truck driver linked to homicides to undergo evaluationMay 11, 2019 7:00 am - MEDINA, Ohio (AP) - A former long haul trucker authorities say is linked by DNA to slayings of four women at truck stops in Ohio and Illinois has been ordered hospitaliz...
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EXCHANGE: Home-schooled team shows engineering creativityMay 11, 2019 7:00 am - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - When you want to make things difficult, this is the perfect team. In the whole country, no team could make a more complicated engine for performin...
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University of Illinois to name lab after LED pioneerMay 10, 2019 7:00 am - URBANA, Ill. (AP) - The University of Illinois is planning to name its Micro and Nanotechnology Lab after an engineering visionary who created the first practical LED. P...
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Galesburg man gets 75 years for woman's shooting deathMay 10, 2019 7:00 am - GALESBURG, Ill. (AP) - A judge has sentenced a western Illinois man to 75 years in prison for shooting death of a woman outside a pub. Thirty-year-old Jonathan Kelly of ...
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Quincy Media to purchase Hannibal Courier-PostMay 10, 2019 7:00 am - HANNIBAL, Mo. (AP) - The company that operates the Quincy (Illinois) Herald-Whig and other media outlets is buying a daily newspaper from across the Mississippi River. Q...