A federal mediator will meet Tuesday with representatives from the Ball Charter School board of directors and teachers union  to hammer out a plan over pay.

The first contribution from Reisch Charities will go to rename and fix up the Food-A-Rama structure on the Illinois State Fairgrounds.

A Beardstown man was killed in a single-vehicle accident near Route 104 and Route 67 outside of Meredosia Sunday morning.

BASTOGNE, Belgium - Side by side, the Allies and former enemy Germany togethermarked the 75th anniversary of one of the most important battles in World War II - the Battle of the Bulge, which stopped Adolf Hitler's last-ditch offensive to turn the tide of the war.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname - Zahara Kamperveen laid white lilies before a glossy black plaque, then gently touched the name of her grandfather, a radio-station owner executed by a military junta in Suriname along with 14 other men nearly two decades before she was born.

WASHINGTON - The House will vote on the impeachment of President Donald Trump this week after spending the past three months investigating the president's dealings in Ukraine and deciding whether his behavior was grave enough to qualify as high crimes and misdemeanors.

LONDON - Britain's new political landscape began to take shape Monday as triumphant Prime Minister Boris Johnson talked trade with President Donald Trump and gave a pep talk to his new Conservative Party lawmakers.

WASHINGTON - Retired coal miners and longtime opponents of Obama-era taxes on high-cost health plans are eyeing big wins as top congressional leaders and the Trump White House close in on a deal on a government-wide spending bill that's also carrying lots of overdue Washington business.

WASHINGTON - House Democrats laid out their impeachment case against President Donald Trump on Monday, a sweeping report accusing him of betraying the nation and deserving to be ousted, as key lawmakers began to signal where they stand ahead of this week's landmark votes.