Search results for

Mack Rutherford got his pilot's license when he was 15. He was born into a family of aviators. His older sister has the record for youngest woman to fly around the world alone.

It’s been a year since five former U.S. Cellular Coliseum officials were charged with 111 criminal counts—accused of a running a brazen multiyear fraud…

It was two steps forward but one step back for the city of Bloomington’s downtown arena last week.After months with a relatively light events calendar,…

A polygamist sect known as the FLDS is building a new settlement in the rural Texas town of Eldorado. Locals are weighing their distrust of plural marriage and other sect practices with the powerful belief that people who move to West Texas should be free to live as they please.

Bloomington’s planning commission on Wednesday gave preliminary approval to a near 300-unit housing development.

The Mayor of Normal warns looming federal limits on water system phosphorus emissions could be a development killer if area residents have to pay for 160-million-dollars in improvements without federal help. There are a lot of pets turned in to shelters in McLean County right now. But the reason for the furry glut might not be post pandemic pet purging after all. And a soon to be abolished tent city on Bloomington's west side raises the profile of the homeless in the twin cities.

Cars connect to phones all the time now and Normal City Manager Pam Reece says that has implications, having emergency vehicles talk to traffic signals, for instance. Hear how Normal plans to be a smart city. Plus Dewitt County has a new wind farm under construction. There's more about that and the wind power industry. And in past decades McLean County Board redistricting has been a quiet exercise controlled by the dominant Republican party. This year there are enough Democrats on the board to make it a very noisy process indeed.

Authorities in Florence, S.C., are in mourning after a man shot seven law enforcement officers Wednesday. One officer, a 30-year police veteran, was killed.

When the McLean County Regional Planning Commission recently finished its national search for a new director, it found the leader it wanted pretty close…

Art Basel Miami is sister of the large annual show in Switzerland. The Miami show has been growing in both size and prominence as an international market for art, but will be put to the test in this year's economic slide.