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A founding member of The Letterman has passed away. The group announced that Tony Butala has died, but did not give a cause of death.+. Butala, who had been living in Manitowoc in recent years, began singing professionally at age seven in Sharon, Pennsylvania. In the late 1950s, he was...

Doug DePodesta, former head of the FBI Chicago field office, is suing the U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois and FBI director, saying he was forced to resign and scapegoated for failed immigration prosecutions.

A North Central College student was killed while visiting a friend over the Halloween weekend near Illinois Wesleyan University, officials said.

Kaden Pickard once doubted college was the right path after earning a grade point average below 2.0, but the Carl Sandburg College student is now being recognized as the top community college student in Illinois. Pickard, 23, of Galesburg has been named the Illinois community college Student Laureate by lincolnacademyillinois.org , according to a community announcement. The distinction recognizes one graduating student to represent Illinois' entire community college system in addition to student

NORMAL, IL – A report of a man on a bicycle allegedly pointing what appeared to be a weapon toward students prompted a police response Sunday night near Illinois State University, ending with an arrest and confirmation that the object was actually a toy bubble blaster.

The graduates received their degrees at an Illinois prison facility about 130 miles from the college’s Evanston campus

Over the weekend, the State of Illinois expanded the number of applications it is accepting for the Low-Income Energy Assistance Program.

One of the last two remaining Bakers Square locations in Minnesota appears to have closed.The Mankato Bakers Square, located at 1861 Madison Avenue, is no longer in operation as of Monday, Nov. 2. Online ordering for the restaurant, which is typically open 7 a.m.-8 p.m., is listed as “unavailable at this time.” Calls to the restaurant on Monday morning went unanswered.Employees have been sharing comments on a Facebook post by Mankato Man, which was the first to report the abrupt closure.Sign up

Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn. Oct. 31—ROCHESTER — One-time grants will not save local emergency medical services, area leaders say. John Fox, director of Dodge Center Ambulance Services, has worked on several EMS and ambulance commissions that have petitioned the state of Minnesota for emergency funding and volunteer subsidies. Grants...

DULUTH, Minn. (KQDS-TV) - Early in the morning of October 27, 2026 a man was found allegedly laying on a stranger's couch. Charging documents claim Brian Christopher Fairbanks, 43, of Duluth was discovered on the couch of an East Hillside residence. A resident there said they woke up to use...