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Teddy Nelson from Logan, W.Va., died from COVID-19 at the age of 25. His friends and a former coach remember him in this obituary.

There were just three students at the Glen School in Sioux County, Neb., during the spring of 2005. Now the one-room school is closed, the victim of a declining area population.

The Israeli military on Saturday said it shot down three unmanned aircraft launched by Lebanese militant group Hezbollah moving near an Israeli gas platform in the Mediterranean Sea.

Wicked Plants is a new book documenting the sometimes deadly plant kingdom. Author Amy Stewart writes about illegal, dangerous and toxic species, including oleander and poison sumac. This summer, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden features some of these "evil" plants skulking among its lily ponds and greenhouses.

Researchers discovered that lunar pits and caves could provide stable temperatures around 63 degrees Fahrenheit, leading to new possibilities for experiments and life there.

Several small towns in central Illinois will get $11 million in state money to build sewer systems, or extend existing ones.

The Mini Nurse Academy, hosted by the Black Nurses Association of Central Illinois, is a new after-school program offered to students in grades 3-6 at Irving Elementary School in Bloomington. The program's goal is to teach students all about being a nurse, from basic first aid to what classes to take.

During the harvest season, farms across the country are inviting their neighbors to an elegant multicourse meal with the farmers at the food's source.

Two years after missing the Olympics for testing positive for marijuana, the American sprinter became the fastest woman in the world.

The safety, a junior at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Va., was tapped to play Saturday against Juniata College during a Division III game — delivering a successful quarterback hurry.