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A 78-year-old man from Downs was one of two people killed in a two-vehicle crash Thursday night in Champaign County.

Duval County in northeast Florida hasn't voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since Jimmy Carter in 1976, but this year might be different.

The powerful storm system spread destruction in several states. In Illinois, one person died and 28 were hurt after a theater roof caved in during a concert.

Several Unit 5 school board candidates opposed to the referendum say a pivot to more e-learning would save the district millions. District officials and teachers say it's not that simple.

The Tri-County death toll from COVID-19 increased by two Thursday after case reviews identified additional December fatalities from Woodford County.

Peoria-area hospitals are currently treating the most patients admitted for COVID-19 in more than two months, while the Tri-County area saw an increase...

More people are caring for a loved one at home as the COVID-19 pandemic leaves them unemployed or apprehensive about care facilities.

NPR's Mandalit Delbarco reports that while President Clinton visited southern California this week, local officials were scrambling to figure out how they'll cope with the new welfare reform act the President has said he will sign. The reform would cut legal immigrants off from many key support payments (such as SSI, food stamps and Medicare), and cities like L.A., with a high number of immigrants, will have to look to state and local coffers to pick up the costs that may result.

Eighty years ago, in July 1925, the mixture of religion, science and the public schools caught fire in Dayton, Tenn. The Scopes trial — or "Monkey Trial," as it was called — dominated headlines across the country. NPR looks back at the Scopes trial, the events that led up to it and its aftermath.

The COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the Sangamon County Department of Public Health has a new process for giving out doses left at the end of each day,...