The presidential election has brought back the debate over ending the U.S. Department of Education. Republican candidate ...

Since President Jimmy Carter created the modern Department of Education in 1979, it has faced continuous calls for its ...

The last day for the Macon County Environmental Management Department’s recycling season will be Thursday, Sep.26.

Career exploration in high school is one of the ways Decatur Public Schools helps young people figure out what they want to ...

The small plastic box that beeped and flashed numbers was a lifeline to Laurie Dove in 1993. Pregnant with her first baby in ...

The leader of Hezbollah vowed Thursday to keep up daily strikes on Israel despite this week's deadly sabotage of its members' ...

CHICAGO — By the time a federal jury delivered their verdict Wednesday evening, awarding Jomaury Champ’s family $750,000 in ...

LONDON — Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 zeroed in on a short list of animals that possibly helped spread it ...

The smell of burnt cannabis alone is insufficient to justify a warrantless police search of an automobile, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

Bill Lowery told everybody he met about Jesus, and his Christ is the Answer ministry touched literally thousands of lives. He trained and sent out missionaries all over the world: ...

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DECATUR — Confronted by an outraged boyfriend as he lay on a bed with the rival's girlfriend, a then 17-year-old Louis L. Binkley was subjected to yelled abuse.