Dave Hinton is editor of The News-Gazette's 'Our Communities' section. He can be reached at [email protected].

Practice notes. Family photos. Schedules. The fifth-year Illini football coach has all of this — and plenty more — in a ...

Makenna Frantz, who farms in rural Arthur, is one of six farmers in as many states chosen to participate in a Mosaic ...

Scott Richey covers college basketball for The News-Gazette. His email is [email protected], and you can follow him on ...

The four-star tight end from Mt. Zion can finally focus solely on performing on Friday nights this fall now that his college ...

Wall Street is ticking lower in premarket trading as investors perused Walmart’s latest financial results ahead of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s speech on Friday. Futures for the S&P 500 ...

Bob Asmussen is a college football reporter and columnist for The News-Gazette. He can be reached at 217-393-8248 or [email protected].

German prosecutors have announced the arrest of a Ukrainian citizen suspected to be one of the coordinators of the 2022 Nord Stream gas pipeline explosions. The suspect, identified as Serhii ...

Beat writer Scott Richey provides a look at 10 names to know among the top 2026 prospects on Illinois' recruiting board ...

California's Democratic Legislature is expected to counter Texas' mid-decade redraw of its congressional map with one of its own. Texas Republicans passed a map creating five new winnable seats for ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart Inc. reported increases in second-quarter profits and sales Thursday as it continues to pull in price-sensitive shoppers for everyday essentials like groceries despite a ...

Built in 1912, the Holt 60 crawler tractor is still owned by the family that originally owned it — the Peterson family of Indiana. It still runs and will be ...