AFSCME members ratify new state contract
SPRINGFIELD – Nearly 40,000 state employees will receive long-awaited pay raises and many will receive back pay for raises they did not rece…
Former University of Illinois student guilty in slaying of visiting Chinese scholar
PEORIA – Jurors deliberated less than 90 minutes before returning a guilty verdict Monday at the federal death-penalty trial of a former Uni…
Farm deluge starts to seep into America's fragile rural economy
From 100 feet up in the air, Indiana crop duster Robert Sneberger gets a better view than most of how cornfields are faring. This season, th…
Incentives aimed at helping land data centers
SPRINGFIELD – The digital world’s data must be stored somewhere. Lawmakers want to give Illinois an even chance of ensuring it’s stored here…
Activists step up trainings amid deportation threats
CHICAGO – Ceci Garcia believes that if her husband had a better understanding of his rights, he would have avoided deportation to Mexico aft…
More money, mandates coming for public schools in Illinois
SPRINGFIELD – Public schools in Illinois will have a lot of new money to work with in the upcoming fiscal year, along with a host of new law…
FBI probing suspect’s claim that scholar was 1 of 13 victims
PEORIA – The FBI is investigating the claim by a former University of Illinois doctoral student that the visiting scholar from China he’s ch…
Rain leaves veggie farmers struggling
DES MOINES, Iowa – Like farmers throughout the Midwest, this spring’s torrential rains turned Andrew Dunham’s land into sticky muck that set…
Suspect bought Drano after scholar’s death
PEORIA – A former University of Illinois doctoral student on trial in the killing of a visiting scholar from China bought Drano and garbage …
Illinois governor signs law expanding access to abortion
CHICAGO – Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed sweeping protections for abortion on Wednesday in a new law that establishes access to the proc…
