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 ...

They hung off statues, called out for lawmakers and battled police who were trying to push them out of the building. They walked through Statuary Hall — where Trump was celebrated in a post ...

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Charlie Coleman’s Jan 26 letter (“Statue of Justice no longer valid”) is duly noted, but does not go far enough.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 ...

SMYRNA — A statue honoring Fanny Williams, the late Civil Rights activist and namesake for Smyrna’s formerly infamous restaurant, Aunt Fanny’s Cabin, now sits in front of the city’s ...

In November 2021, 26 objects from the Kingdom of Dahomey plundered by French colonialists in 1892 were returned to Benin, the west African nation that now encompasses Dahomey that gained its ...