IN Erie, Pa. last week, Alfred E. Perlman, president of the New York Central Railroad, ushered in a new symbol of 20th century progress for his venerable old line. Throwing a switch on a signal ...

PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...

(WAND) - Conditions will turn icy across Central Illinois today. Light freezing drizzle will develop this morning across our southern hometowns. It'll build into freezing rain as it moves ...

A 33-year-old Panama City man was killed in a head-on collision in Santa Rosa County. The man was driving the wrong way on U.S. 98 when his pickup truck struck another vehicle. The other driver ...

While a storm system moving through the area this weekend will bring some freezing drizzle to the area on Saturday, the systems that follow will stand a better chance of bringing accumulating snow to ...

Public schools in Illinois are administered and funded on all levels: local, state, and federal. Superintendent Mark Jontry, who oversees schools in McLean, Livingston, Logan, and DeWitt Counties ...

Owners of some central Illinois pawn shops, along with employees have been charged for allegedly reporting merchandise as stolen and then reselling those products. A Bloomington family that owns and ...

A. Philip Randolph, International President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and national president of the Negro American Labor Council, is shown in Washington, D.C., Aug. 1963.

The Panama Railroad was meant to revolutionize travel, offering a faster route to the California Gold Rush, but its construction came at a devastating human cost. Disease, treacherous terrain ...

the cars had been part of the Penn Valley Railroad in Sunbury. For 27 years, they carried rail fans on fall foliage and holiday excursions through central Pennsylvania. Jeff Pontius, 70, ...

2:31 Marco Rubio makes 1st foreign trip to Panama as new U.S. secretary of state Secretary of State Marco Rubio embarks this weekend on his first foreign trip in office, heading to Central ...