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After spending the first three years of her career at Urbana Middle School, Alyssa Ginzburg will move to the district's new ...

Xavier Scott’s image is displayed on a screen as the Illinois defensive back hams it up for the camera during a photo shoot ...

Mahomet-Seymour High School freshmen Austin Shroyer and Troy Cunningham placed second in the Illinois Bass National two-day ...

Maddie Webber is one of two transfer guards the Illini added in the offseason with the junior coming over from Villanova.

The career of Diana Steele (aka Diane Matt on WKIO K-104) is a testament to hard work and perseverance. I asked her to tell ...

President Donald Trump is visiting the Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington, a week after indicating that Fed chair Jerome Powell’s handling of an extensive renovation project on two Fed buildin ...

President Donald Trump plans to visit the Federal Reserve as his allies scrutinize its expensive building renovations. It's a highly personal and confrontational escalation of Trump's campaign to pres ...

Forty-eight people have died in a plane crash in Russia’s Far East, the head of the country’s Amur region said in a statement Thursday. The An-24 passenger plane disappeared from ...

World shares are higher, buoyed by optimism that the U.S.-Japan tariff agreement will be followed by more trade deals. On Wednesday, U.S. stocks rose to more records following the US-Japan ...