PONTIAC – The Paxton-Buckley-Loda eighth-grade volleyball team won 25-17, 25-11 over Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley in the IESA Class 3A regional quarterfinals. Tinley Eichelberger had six kills for PBL ...

CHARLESTON — Evan Landers-Kristensen of the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School boys track and field won the 200-meter dash with a time of 23.01 seconds during the Central Illinois Invitational on ...

SPRINGFIELD — Supporters of a long-awaited measure that would establish a board to review and regulate statewide prescription drug prices are hoping to gain momentum for the bill to pass this spring.

I’m not sure how well-known it is, but writers steal from each other all the time. Songwriters, too. Joni Mitchell famously accused Bob Dylan of plagiarism. Johnny Cash talked openly about mining old ...

I’ve spent the last few weeks getting my seed-starting area — the basement — ready for the new season. I have wiped work tables, soaked small pots in bleach water and checked that my lights and ...

URBANA — An Onarga man was sentenced to five years in federal prison on Monday, Feb. 23, for possessing a bomb last April. A federal grand jury returned a single count indictment last July against ...

When a voter elects someone to run an office, do we expect that person to show up regularly to that office to work every day? Our current Ford County clerk and recorder, Amy Frederick, is at her ...

That’s the question facing voters in Buckley, who will decide via a binding referendum whether the town can secure the necessary financing to build its own sanitary sewer system and treatment plant, ...

Senate Republicans are backing legislation to strengthen protections for students and ensure tougher consequences for sexual assault in schools. I co-sponsored Senate Bill 2991 that would require a ...

GIBSON CITY — The Gibson City Restoration Association’s weekly Queen of Hearts drawings have been moved to the Horsch Radish restaurant at 209 N. Sangamon Ave. in Gibson City. The Horsch Radish will ...

ONARGA — The Federated Bank has hired Mary Ann Michaels as controller. Michaels has 20 years of experience in accounting operations, compliance, lending support and financial management, along with a ...

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago man convicted in Indonesia of beating his then-girlfriend’s mother to death with a fruit bowl and hiding the body in a suitcase more than a decade ago pleaded not guilty ...