Memorials honoring the victims of Friday's shooting at Bunn-O-Matic Corp. have sprung up at the Stevenson Drive facility.

A Springfield man faces formal charges after he shouted racial slurs and threw a rock striking a Black male employee at McDonald's last week.

The number of COVID-19 cases in Sangamon County inched up over the weekend for the first double-digit increase since May 12 when there were 10.Health officials Monday reported 19 new cases since Saturday including residents and an employee at Cedarhurst, an assisted living and memory care center in Springfield.

The New Berlin school district remains embattled following a special board meeting last week.

A white man and woman pointed guns at protesters marching through St. Louis and calling for Mayor Lyda Krewson to resign on Sunday night.

The Brandt Foundation Monday pledged to provide $100,000 over five years for scholarships to Lincoln Land Community College students studying agriculture.

The seven-day rolling positivity rate for COVID-19 tests conducted remained at 2.7 percent Monday as the state reported the lowest single-day death total related to the pandemic since March 30.There were 14 deaths reported Monday after 15 were reported Sunday and 26 on Saturday, bringing the COVID-19-related death toll since the pandemic began to 6,902 among 142,461 confirmed cases statewide.

As Confederate statues and symbols are removed nationwide, activists are calling for monuments to those who contributed to the genocide of Indigenous people to be toppled as well.

One of the most remote and isolated places on Earth - the South Pole - has warmed over three times the global rate for the past 30 years, a new study reports.