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 ...

Not only is the new Gibson Family Pharmacy about twice as large as the current one downtown, it also features added ...

The Paxton-Buckley-Loda varsity boys basketball team won 68-61 over Clinton on Saturday. Tyler Cole led PBL with 20 points, ...

The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley varsity girls basketball team won 67-40 over Warrensburg-Latham in the Monticello Holiday ...

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 ...

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 ...

MONTICELLO – The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley varsity boys basketball team won 62-53 over Neoga in the Monticello Holiday Hoopla ...

I generally like John Wayne Westerns — particularly those directed by John Ford. I don’t always agree with them, but Ford sometimes uses a story to slap you in the face with reality while you think ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Aidan Laughery, a 2022 Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley graduate, helped the University of Illinois football team win 30-28 over Tennessee in the Music City Bowl on Tuesday. “It’s special, ...