On Tuesday, the Gary Common Council unanimously passed a resolution opposing an Indiana bill that would eliminate the Gary Community School Corporation (GCSC). House Bill 1136, introduced by Rep ...

MATTOON — Four tenants were displaced by a fire that swept through an apartment house early Thursday morning along 17th Street. A Mattoon Fire Department news release reported that crews were ...

MATTOON — The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity has awarded a $2.3 million grant to improve electrical capacity near the County Road 1000N industrial corridor to promote ...

Sit-in observances were held Friday at A&T, which holds an annual breakfast in the honor of the four students, followed by a wreath-laying at a statue of the men on campus. A Black and White Ball ...

Janet Ruth (Stagg) Trainor Janet Ruth (Stagg) Trainor was born in Burlington, Vermont on June 9, 1935, and was the only child of Edgar Josiah Stagg and Ester (Kemp) Stagg. Her maternal ancestors ...

This past year, she submitted 12 of her pieces into competition at the York County Fair and won two grand champion ribbons, “Those were for the statue of Neptune picture I drew and my sea turtles.

Alternative R&B singer-songwriter Iman Jordan spent his summers growing up visiting his guitarist father, Roy Gartrell, and his singing grandmother, Kitty Gartrell, in Atlantic City and Brigantine.

Charlie Coleman’s Jan 26 letter (“Statue of Justice no longer valid”) is duly noted, but does not go far enough. I have for some time felt that it’s time for the United States to return ...

Voorhees honors founder with statue Voorhees University unveiled a bronze statue of its founder, Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, in April 2024. Wright was the first African American female to found a ...

The library is hosting a month of festivities to celebrate the 20-foot bronze statue created by Robert Russin. “Public art like Prometheus doesn’t just decorate a space — it defines it ...

A huge golden statue of the Virgin Mary that has for more than a century watched over the French port city of Marseille and its seafarers is this summer to receive a gold-leaf facelift. The virgin ...

A crash of two tractor-trailers on Interstate 295 on Friday night left one of the drivers dead at the scene from an apparent gunshot wound, according to Virginia State Police. The crash occurred ...