Just like the Masters, the winning team at the fifth annual Bret Bielema Invitational received snazzy new blazers — only ...

Today is Wednesday, July 8, 2026. Here are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago: In 1926, workers digging gravel on the Wiley Fowler farm, 5 miles north of Penfield, unearthed an entire ...

Shares are mostly lower in Europe and Asia and oil prices surged more than 2% after the U.S. launched strikes on Iran. Stocks in South Korea dipped 5.4% following a ...

Healthcare workers at the epicenter of Congo’s Ebola outbreak are walking off their jobs to protest delays in their payments. The strike threatens efforts to slow the outbreak that officials ...

President Donald Trump has thrown a major twist into a NATO summit in Turkey by launching a series of strikes on Iran and revoking a license that allowed Tehran to ...

At a news conference outside State Farm Center, Illinois coach Brad Underwood discusses the return of the IHSA boys’ ...

Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Greenland is “not for sale” in remarks at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey. The comment Wednesday came a day after U.S. President Donald ...

A southern Chinese region is reeling from the destruction and widespread flooding caused by record-breaking rain on Wednesday from the remnants of Tropical Storm Maysak. Local officials say the severe ...

The U.S. military has launched a series of strikes against Iranian targets after three merchant ships were struck in the waters off Oman. U.S. Central Command says in a social ...

Come November, Rantoul residents could have the chance to give their two cents on whether the village’s current ban on ...

Funeral processions for Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have begun Wednesday in Najaf, Iraq, with thousands of mourners present. The dayslong funeral started Saturday in Tehran, with ...

Ford County’s prosecutor and Paul L. Meuser’s attorney have agreed to recommend that the former Paxton-Buckley-Loda High ...