COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana is scheduled to speak later this month at a congressional prayer breakfast in...

CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — Southern Illinois University officials hope the new governor will fund a decades-old state commitment to educate veterans that has been...

CHICAGO (AP) — A music composition professor in Illinois has learned he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music . Western Illinois...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois education officials are considering whether the cost of teacher licensure tests may be contributing to the state’s teacher shortage....

CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio man accused of claiming to be a missing child from Illinois is facing new charges. A federal grand jury...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — A Champaign-area bus company sued last year for an ad that the state’s top law enforcement official said harassed and...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis man has been sentenced to four years in prison for recruiting a 15-year-old girl and a 22-year-old...

BENTON, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky school district where two students were fatally shot last year has been awarded a second federal grant to...