Super Bowl MVP New England Patriots wide receiver Deion Branch gestures on the podium after his team won 24-21 against the ...

NFL draft experts have settled upon a handful of players the Patriots could take at No. 1. But there's one who's the clear ...

A $10 million settlement between county officials in Springfield, Illinois, and the family of Sonya Massey is the “first step ...

While some schools are starting to claw back some of the ground lost due to pandemic-era learning disruptions, but there’s still a ways to go, a new report finds.

Out of his 502 football decals, Mark McLaughlin has 172 from Nebraska's current high schools with 32 duplicates and seven from teams that no longer exist.

Nebraska romance writer Lynn Painter at her home office in Springfield on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. Lynn Painter, a local ...

President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose 14-year sentence for political ...

The Fighting Illini added to their already-touted 2026 recruiting class by landing a four-star safety from Texas.

Missouri State football has many new names joining the team for the 2025 season. Here's a full list of the new recruiting class.

Answer: True. In 1875, lawmakers debated whether Illinois had too many colleges and not enough facilities for people with mental illnesses. A proposal was made to convert ISNU (Illinois State ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — At the end of his Sunday service, the pastor of the First Haitian Evangelical Church of Springfield, Ohio, asked ushers and musicians to form a circle around him as he knelt ...

Springfield police were dispatched to the 2100 block of Larch Street on initial reports of a shooting just after 10:15 p.m. A 911 caller told police about the shooting and said she feared a baby ...