Illinois forward Will Riley (7) and Tennessee's guard Jordan Gainey (11) in an NCAA basketball game at the State Farm Center ...

Christmas 1944 in the United States wasn’t supposed to be like this. Five months earlier, pollster George Gallup reported ...

Leandro speaks first: “My family fled Cuba/on a lashed-together jumble/of inner tubes, balsa wood, and fear/exactly ten years ...

When asked how things were going, a good friend recently cackled: “My wife treats me like God. She only talks to me when she ...

We like those little books of car wash tickets,' I say. 'Mother, I thought we agreed a car wash is not a gift.' ...

Illini guard Kylan Boswell gives Tennessee’s Jordan Gainey the business after he tried to take the ball from Boswell in the ...

France's Interior Ministry says at least 11 people have died after Cyclone Chido caused devastating damage in the French territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean. The ministry said it ...

The United Nations special envoy for Syria on Sunday called for a quick end to Western sanctions after the ouster of President Bashar Assad.

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

It’s incredible.” Lindsay used the Bible books of Daniel, Ezekiel and Revelation to argue that the world would end soon — certainly before the year 2000. Grandma disagreed. After reading one ...

The holiday season of giving isn’t quite here yet, but most other states, which are centrist or conservative, surely are thankful for what Illinois sends them every year.

Three giants passed recently. One local, two national and international. One Jewish and White, two African American and Black. One queer woman, two cisgender men. One a creative intellectual and ...