Springfield Clinic’s top administrator has left the business based on a mutual agreement with the clinic’s board of directors.Randy Bryant,...

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia — The more than two-year-long hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will be suspended once the current search area in the Indian...

MOLINE -- Deere & Company says it is laying off 120 employees at an East Moline factory as part of ongoing job cuts.The company said in a news release...

ST. LOUIS - Matt Adams homered in the 16th inning to lead the Cardinals to a 4-3 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night for St. Louis' season-best fifth straight victory.It was the second consecutive game that the Cardinals won in their final at...

MILWAUKEE -- Dexter Fowler led off the first with a homer and drove in three runs in his first game back from the disabled list, powering the Chicago Cubs to a 5-2 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday night.Fowler went 3 for 4 with a walk and scored t...

As the old adage goes, it's so hot you could fry an egg out there. Or some bacon.Despite a heat index nearing triple digits Friday evening, organizers of the second Downtown Bacon Throwdown and Bedrock 66 Live! music festival expected a big crowd."Even w...

A nearly $2.1 million rail-relocation project scheduled to begin Monday in Springfield will close sections of four streets for nearly a year while improvements are made to accommodate long-term plans for local train traffic.Plans for the next four underpa...

TAYLORVILLE -- A seven-year Taylorville police officer who had faced a domestic battery charge that was later dismissed was fired Friday.Patrol officer Anthony Telford has been on paid leave after being arrested June 22 at a Holiday Inn in Skokie.The deci...

Black Lives Matter Springfield will hold its first meeting at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Lincoln Library, 326 S. Seventh St."We're looking for suggestions on what the community wants us to work on," said Sunshine Clemons, co-founder of the group. "We want t...

ORLANDO, Florida - Hillary Clinton named Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her vice presidential running mate Friday, adding a centrist former governor of a crucial battleground state to the Democratic ticket. In a text message to supporters, the presumptive De...