Champaign County child, 9, struck and killed by freight train while riding bike to school
Police say a 9-year-old child was struck and killed Friday by a freight train in central Illinois as the youngster was apparently riding a bike to school.
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Education secretary praises Springfield after-school program during visit
U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona met Gov. J.B. Pritzker and state school Superintendent Tony Sanders Wednesday at Fairview Elementary School to promote the Education Department’s “Raise the Bar: Lead the World” agenda.
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Caleb Griffin kicks 29-yard FG in closing seconds to give Illinois 30-28 win over Toledo
Miles Scott returned an interception 48 yards for a score, and the Illini squeezed out the win in a back-and-forth game to start coach Bret Bielema’s third season.
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Big Ten is ready for maximum exposure with games on NBC, CBS and Fox
On Saturday, September 2, Illinois will take on Toledo at Memorial Stadium at 6:30 p.m. The game will be broadcast on BTN.
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5 people shot and wounded, 2 critically, in Illinois city, as gun violence cancels school events
Authorities say one man was killed and seven people were wounded in three separate shootings hours apart in Peoria.
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US Marines killed in Australian aircraft crash were from Illinois, Virginia and Colorado
The V-22B Osprey with 23 Marines on board crashed Sunday in tropical forest on Melville Island while taking part in a drill that includes the militaries of Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines and East Timor.
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Sheriff provides the first details of how a white man fatally shot 3 Black people at a Florida store
Palmeter had legally purchased his guns in recent months, even though he underwent a required mental health examination in 2017. Palmeter killed himself after shooting his three victims.
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Mug shot of Donald Trump shows scowling former president during speedy booking at Atlanta jail
Unlike his bookings for three other batches of charges, this one yielded a historic first: the mug shot of a former American president, scowling at the camera.
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Dr. Nathaniel Horn, the husband of US Rep. Robin Kelly, has died at 68
The Illinois Democrat posted a statement about Horn on X, the social media platform formerly called Twitter. Horn was 68.
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Illinois, fresh off bowl trip and 8-win season, has ‘unfinished business’ as opener draws near
The Illini finished 8-5 in coach Bret Bielema’s second year after 10 straight losing seasons, placed second in the Big Ten West, played in a bowl game for the first time since 2019 and had four NFL draft picks.
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Trump, 18 allies indicted in Georgia over 2020 election meddling, the 4th criminal case against him
The grand jury heard from witnesses into the evening Monday in the election subversion investigation into Donald Trump. The long day of testimony was punctuated by the mysterious and brief appearance on a county website of a list of criminal charges against the former president that prosecutors later disavowed.
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Trump has been indicted in a fourth case. Here’s where all the investigations stand
The Fulton County investigation is the latest criminal case for Trump as he runs for the White House in 2024.
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A central Kansas police force sparked a firestorm by raiding a newspaper and the publisher’s home
Marion County Record Publisher and Editor Eric Meyer said police raided the newspaper’s office on Friday, seizing the newspaper’s computers, phones and file server and the personal cellphones of staff, based on a search warrant investigating alleged identity theft. Meyer is a former associate professor of journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Death toll in Maui rises to 93 with 2,200 structures destroyed or damaged
The wildfires are the state’s deadliest natural disaster in decades, surpassing a 1961 tsunami that killed at least 80 people. Many survivors of the fire said in interviews they did not receive a warning that gave them enough time to flee.
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Starting next year, child influencers can sue if earnings aren’t set aside, says new Illinois law
Brand deals featuring the internet’s darlings can reap tens of thousands of dollars per video. But so far there are minimal regulations for the “sharenthood” industry, which experts say can cause serious harm to children.
