Galesburg News

A western Illinois college is racking up Fulbright Scholar grants. The Chronicle of Higher Education recently released its list of national leaders in Fulbrights.

An assault at the Henry Hill Correctional Center is resulting in a lockdown at the Illinois Department of Corrections facility.

Wheaton College's abolitionist origins are a matter of historical record. No one doubts that the school's founders were adamant in their opposition to slavery; the written record of the time bears it out.

Four Lakeland College wrestlers placed at the Knox Invite on Saturday in Galesburg, Ill.

A Knox County judge has granted a motion to appoint a special prosecutor to handle the case of a county official accused of theft.

The Knox County recorder has been arrested and accused of stealing funds from the Knox County Democratic Party.

Works by some of history's most celebrated women artists are featured in this compelling new exhibition.

Nicholas Sheley, 30, of Sterling, IL is accused of a two-state killing spree in June 2008 that left 8 people dead.

Could you give Nicholas Sheley a fair trial? Maybe that's not a fair question. After all, you read this newspaper, which treats the eight-time murder defendant as the local celebrity he is – not the famous kind, the infamous.

Knox County Health Department will hold several H1N1 vaccination clinics this Saturday, November 7th from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon throughout the County.

Nicholas Sheley, 30, of Sterling; charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated kidnapping, two counts of aggravated vehicular kidnapping, armed robbery, robbery, and possession of a stolen motor vehicle in the death of Ronald Randall, 65, of Galesburg, who was killed in late June 2008.

Steve and Kay Beuttel of Heyworth, Ill., are celebrating their silver wedding anniversary.

GALESBURG – As Nicholas T. Sheley lay in wait to ambush correctional officers in the Knox County Jail last spring, he had two goals in mind – to hurt someone and to “wreak havoc,” Judge Stephen Mathers said Friday.

An accused spree killer was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for attacking Knox County jailers last April while being held on murder charges.

By Bobby Wilson One of my companions on an art and architecture tour of Europe in the early '80s was Liz Clark, who at that time was an art teacher by day and a chef by night.

Historian Owen Muelder, director of the Galesburg Colony Underground Railroad Freedom Center at Knox College, will be the guest speaker at the Bureau County Historical Society's annual dinner Oct.

Sheley coming to 
Whiteside: Hearing will determine whether suspect may testify for his brother By Tara Becker 
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800-798-4085, ext.

Photo by Andrew Mitchell Protestors from Lewis University display their homemade signs outside the State Capitol Building on Oct.

GALESBURG, Ill. - It's not often that a member of the president's Cabinet visits Galesburg, but when U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood arrives here Tuesday for a luncheon and a number of other events, he'll already know his way around the city.

The Second Sentence of Everything I Read Is You, Installation at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden Haubrok Works, Berlin, 2008.