Dozens of cattle spilled onto a street in Kansas City, Missouri, when a semitractor-trailer plunged off a highway overpass in the city's downtown, shutting down some roads and setting off ...

A woman who drove a pickup truck onto a soccer field during a weekend youth game in Kansas, killing two people and injuring 10 others, has ...

A grass fire killed four Canadian service members and injured 39 other people, 19 of them critically, as it swept through a military training area where soldiers were using live ...

Paramount's “Street Fighter” leads the box office this weekend, earning $31 million from 3,575 theaters in the U.S. and Canada. However, the spotlight is on the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You ...

Greetings from "Can't Wait For Saturday," your morning morsel of college football, courtesy of longtime Illini beat writer, ...

President Donald Trump has endorsed embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for reelection. It's coveted boost because of Trump’s popularity. But it's also an endorsement that the U.S. lea ...

As Black August Resistance Month 2026 ends, a multifront war for the political heart of Afro-America is roiling.

The Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra, led by Stephen Alltop, gave a triumphal performance of the longest symphony in the ...

After meeting the foster for the handoff, we stopped briefly to pick up a little lunch at the food hall in downtown Milwaukee — the Milwaukee Public Market. We did a quick exploration and ordered up ...

I rush to read any new book by Elizabeth Acevedo. “Anger is Only a Shadow” (Quill Tree/Harper 2026) does not disappoint. At ...

I Bagels was co-founded by Matthew Harfield and Lev Linderman, who are both sophomores at the University of Illinois.

Scott Richey covers college basketball for The News-Gazette. His email is srichey@news-gazette.com, and you can follow him on ...