OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Farmers are now learning how much aid they can expect to receive from a $12 billion package that President Donald Trump announced. The U.S. Department of Agriculture released the ...

Ever been to the Kennedy Center in New York City? Me neither. Yet our money helps fund it. The center receives roughly $45 million per year in federal support, and now President Donald Trump has ...

Supposedly there’s a national penny shortage. I haven’t noticed — I’ve got a water bottle full of them in the closet — but we’re told this is serious business. Commissions have been formed. Reports ...

Christine T. Ecklor, 103 of Byron and formerly of Rantoul and Urbana, died at 6:04 a.m. Saturday, January 3, 2026, at Neighbors Healthcare, Byron. A private burial will be held in Maplewood Cemetery, ...

PAXTON — Jarad E. Kirkpatrick, 39, formerly of Champaign, was sentenced to the Illinois Department of Corrections in two related Ford County cases involving violations of a court-issued order of ...

Gerald Pruitt, 84, of Paxton, passed away on Thursday, January 1, 2026, at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana. He was born on May 4, 1941, in Homer, the son of William Henry and Mittie (Hillard) ...

DANVILLE — Like many others, Ford County Board members were blindsided by Friday’s news that the CRIS Rural Mass Transit District would be ceasing operations, effective immediately, just half a year ...

GIBSON CITY – The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley varsity girls basketball team won 53-52 over St. Joseph-Ogden on Saturday. Lily Sizemore scored 31 points for GCMS (11-4) while Jillian Rosendahl had 14 ...

Russell Allen Gulley, 65, of Choctaw, Oklahoma, passed away on December 20, 2025. He was born 15th July 1960 in Paxton, Illinois. Russell was a loving husband of Mandy Edlin Gulley. He is survived by ...

RANTOUL — At the Seek and Find Ministries thrift store, everyone’s a character: the older man who found purpose organizing community food boxes, the grandmother who buys old-looking things to teach ...

RIVERTON — About 300 central Illinois families are admiring brightly decorated Christmas trees in their homes this season that were nurtured on the Krone Tree Farm in Sangamon County for six to 10 ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The attorneys for the man accused of killing rap icon Tupac Shakur in 1996 are pushing to suppress evidence obtained in what they claim was an “unlawful nighttime search.” Las Vegas ...