Author Archives: WJBD Staff

UNDATED (AP) - The College Football Playoff is set to stick with a four-team format through the 2025 season. The administrators who manage the postseason failed to agree on a plan to expand before the...

BEIJING (AP) - The United States has gained two more medals at the Beijing Games. American and two-time Olympic champion David Wise took home the silver in ski halfpipe with his first-run score of 90....

CLEVELAND (AP) - Four-time NBA champion Manu Ginobili headlines this year's group of finalists for induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Former All-Star players Michael Cooper,...

NEW YORK (AP) - The Major League lockout has begun to cut into the spring training schedule. Management has canceled the first week of exhibition games through March 4 in the first public acknowledgem...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The Carolina Hurricanes own a piece of the NHL's Metropolitan Division lead after surviving a wild finish against the Predators. Andrei Svechnikov delivered two goals and an assis...

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. (AP) - Joaquin Niemann has set a 36-hole record at Riviera Country Club while taking a two-shot lead at the Genesis Invitational. Niemann fired his second straight 63 for a 1...

Major highways in South Central Illinois are mostly clear with a few isolated icy spots on untreated roads. The Illinois Department of Transportation reports scattered ice and snow cover from Fayette ...

Salem Mayor Nic Farley told those gathered for his State of the City message before the Greater Salem Chamber of Commerce Thursday afternoon that after the community has taken it on the chin for the p...

Illinois State Police say I-39 south of El Paso remains closed Friday following a multi-vehicle crash involving 19 commercial motor vehicles and nine passenger vehicles. Numerous other vehicles slid o...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - An appeals court has dismissed an appeal of a judge's ruling that invalidated the Illinois governor's requirement that masks be worn in schools to prevent the spread of COVID-...