Here are some sights from Monday's match, which Monticello won 25-7, 24-26, 25-23 ...

ROCHESTER – Six Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley/Fisher Middle School wrestlers will grapple at the IESA Class A state meet next weekend in DeKalb. Kasey Cargo and Brady Lowe earned their state berths via ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

It wasn’t all music. In fact, many sounds bring me back to my Ford County roots. I spent many a summer night staying with one grandparent or the other. Both homes were unique to various sounds of the ...

I haven’t written much about President Donald Trump in a while in my commentaries, focusing instead on other pressing issues and subjects. But after watching the State of the Union address on Tuesday, ...