Regional gas prices are essentially unchanged last week at an average of $2.98 per gallon of regular fuel on Monday, essentially the same as last week's price, according to the U.S. Energy Information ...

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Illinois dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 9,526 ...

The Indiana House gave a stamp of approval to Republican House Speaker Todd Huston’s bill that creates a commission to discuss how Illinois counties could secede from their state and join Indiana.

Spring Break 2025 season is from early March to the end of April. All four Walt Disney World theme parks currently have attraction closures. Spring break season is almost here! Depending on where you ...

The recent firings of federal employees who were new to their jobs violate federal laws about merit-based hiring and layoffs, lawyers say. The lawyers for a group of fired probationary workers filed a ...

An Indiana House committee nearly unanimously approved House Speaker Todd Huston's only bill this session, starting a conversation about annexing some Illinois counties should they secede from their ...

Over two years ago, Blue Cross Blue Shield reached a $2.6 billion settlement with its subscribers after a lawsuit alleging that the company broke antitrust laws. Now, eligible customers who filed a ...

WASHINGTON − The Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Health and Human Services secretary on Thursday, giving the longtime vaccine skeptic who has vowed to take on "big pharma" and ...

Regional gas prices rose last week and reached an average of $2.98 per gallon of regular fuel on Monday, up from last week's price of $2.92 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information ...

Jeanette M. McCloskey, 78, of Washington, IL, passed away on Monday, February 10, 2025, at Lacon Rehab and Nursing in Lacon, IL. She was born on February 25, 1946, in West Frankfort, IL, the daughter ...

U.S. Representative Nancy Mace, in a graphic speech on the House floor, has accused her former fiancé and three other men of drugging and raping her and other women, and filming and photographing ...