Independent 13th Congressional District U.S. House candidate Dr. David Gill, whose nominating petitions are being challenged, may go to federal court to overturn the requirement that he needs more than 14 times the valid signatures needed by Democratic an...

Five-star basketball recruit Jeremiah Tilmon of La Lumiere School in La Porte, Indiana, has made an oral commitment to the University of Illinois, The (Champaign-Urbana) News-Gazette reported Monday on its website.Tilmon, a 6-foot-10 senior-to-be, average...

Growing up in Kentucky, one of Alan Lowe's first memories was visiting Abraham Lincoln's birthplace. On Monday, Lowe took over as the new director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield."The thought of being able to be the ...

The SAT will replace the PARCC assessment as the high school accountability exam in Illinois, the State Board of Education announced Monday.Students in third through eighth grades will continue to take the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for Colle...

Walking into a room on the first floor of the Old State Capitol Monday morning, tour guide Alan Stutz explained that the long table in the middle was where Abraham Lincoln wrote his "House Divided" speech in 1858. Gary Marx's face lit up."Just to think...

Chris Thompson fired a 9-under-par 63 Monday at Spencer T. Olin Golf Course in Alton and Bo Hoag shot a 6-under 66 at Sunset Hills Country Club in Edwardsville to lead 12 qualifiers for the Web.com Tour Lincoln Land Charity Classic that begins Thursday at...

A man at a residence in the 700 block of Forrest Avenue got a disturbing answer to why he was vomiting blood after he woke up Saturday morning.According to Springfield police, he was struck in the head by a bullet, probably a fragment, that he somehow swa...

ST. JOSEPH, Mich. - A jail inmate trying to escape from a western Michigan courthouse wrested a gun from an officer Monday, killing two bailiffs and injuring two more people before he was fatally shot by other officers, a sheriff said. People scrambled fo...

Springfield police say a 59-year-old Peoria man was driving drunk when he pulled in front of a motorcyclist at 11th Street and South Grand Avenue Saturday evening.Police arrested John A. Williams on suspicion of driving under the influence. He was also ci...

DECATUR -- A black man who was shot and wounded by police in Decatur early Monday was armed with a BB gun that resembled a real handgun, according to police.Authorities said officers responded to reports of a man armed with a gun around 1 a.m. Police init...