Danielle O'Neill, a Physical Education teacher at Sherwood Elementary, has been named Springfield Public School's Teacher of ...

Congresswoman wants Durbin's Senate seat U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly is entering the race to become Illinois’ next senator. Kelly, ...

While our officers are trained to expect the unexpected, finding a raccoon holding a meth pipe is a first!” the Springfield ...

A judge accepted a guilty plea from a Springfield, Mo., man on May 5 on charges of aggravated sexual abuse of a minor in a foreign place.

John Michael Bradley, a former U.S. Army member, pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a child in Honduras from 2005 to 2008, and is facing at least 30 years to life in prison without parole.

Starting Wednesday, the Roman Catholic College of Cardinals will gather inside the Sistine Chapel to begin choosing the next pope.

According to City Utilities, nearly all customers have regained power. Now the utility company and others are looking toward cleaning up.

A retired U.S. brigadier general who failed to get through the confirmation process in the first Trump administration got ...

BOSTON — Kristaps Porzingis unexpectedly left the Celtics’ Game 1 loss to the Knicks in the first half due to illness on ...

Two portions of a popular travel destination are under the U.S. State Department's most severe travel warning alert.

Dr. Vinay Prasad, a prominent critic of the pharmaceutical industry and the Food and Drug Administration, has been named to oversee the health agency’s program for vaccines and ...

Senators came up with 317 ways in which they’d like to amend the Senate Ways and Means Committee’s nearly $1.3 billion transportation and education spending bill this week, and the ...