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NEW YORK (AP) - Major League Baseball has proposed a one-month delay in starting spring training due to the novel coronavirus pandemic and pushing back opening day to April 28. That's according to two...

In this Q4 recap: the appearance of two COVID-19 vaccines gives businesses and consumers hope and lifts stocks; U.S. lawmakers approve a second financial stimulus; European negotiators sign off on a p...

Gene Gream, 74, of Mount Vernon, Illinois, passed away on January 30, 2021, at Deaconess Midtown Hospital in Evansville, Indiana. A Visitation will be held Thursday, February 4, 2021, from 11:00 am to...

The Illinois Department of Public Health is reporting 40 additional COVID-19 related deaths on Sunday, including a female in her 80s in Marion County and a female in her 70s in Clinton County. The sta...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - New Illinois House Speaker Rep. Emanuel "Chris" Welch says he has stepped back from his role as a partner in a law firm that provides services to local governments in the stat...

CHICAGO (AP) - The state of Illinois is buying a building on Chicago’s near West Side $73 million building. It’s part of a wider plan to consolidate state employees from several downtown b...

Grandville Wayne "Bo" Johnson., age 58, of Centralia, Illinois, passed away at 5:09 P.M. on Thursday, January 28, 2021, at SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital in Centralia, Illinois. Bo was of the Christia...

A 27-year-old Centralia man has been arrested by Sandoval Police on an outstanding St. Clair County warrant and for unlawful possession of a weapon or ammunition. Randall Withers of East Noleman was t...

Linda Dawn Sullivan, 73, of Bluford, Illinois, formerly of Kentucky, passed away at 3:00 pm January 29, 2021, at Mount Vernon Countryside Manor in Mount Vernon, Illinois. There will be no public servi...

CHICAGO (AP) - Damian Lillard hit a fadeaway 3-pointer as time expired to give the Portland Trail Blazers a 123-122 victory over the Chicago Bulls. Lillard finished with 44 points on eight 3-pointers....