Rochester News

Each year, the Rochester Public Library sponsors a baking contest - inspired by a book - at the city's Sparks in the Park Independence Day celebration.

Springfield native Laura Dixon always had a knack for singing and dancing, but a reality television show wasn't her dream when she moved to California in December.

R.L. and Carolyn Moore sold their complex of dining facilities and shops in downtown Rochester several years ago with the intent of slowing down.

ROD BLAGOJEVICH has set July 9 as D-Day in Illinois. That would be D-Day as in Doomsday.

Dave and Rita Harper watched Friday evening as their two kids, Michael and Katherine, spun around in circles on the Heart Flip.

Rochester native and professional ring announcer Henry 'Dis-com-bob-u-lating' Jones will work Thursday's fight card at the Main Street Armory featuring Kenny Abril against Cory Peterson in the main event.

If a community isn't growing, it's dying, Chatham Mayor Tom Gray says. So despite talk of a recession and a declining housing market elsewhere, Chatham's rapid growth to a population of more than 10,000 has ...

Wage and Hour Division V-162 June 11, 1998 CONTACT: Brad Mitchell FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Juan Solano 353-6976 The U.S. Department of Labor has assessed a $13,275 fine against Lunt, Inc.

A group of small-business owners came out in the rain on Tuesday to support Renaissance Square, the $230 million project which would combine a bus terminal, college and arts center along East Main Street in ...

Flooded farm fields in central Illinois and across the Midwest helped drive corn prices to a record high for the fourth day in a row Tuesday, and analysts warned it could mean higher prices at the supermarket ...

Residents served by the Mechanicsburg-Buffalo Water Commission are being asked to limit what they use as floodwaters cover the district's wells.

Sangamon County sheriff's deputies investigating the theft of a Toyota pickup near Dawson were in the right place at the right time Sunday to recover a second truck that had been reported stolen a few days ...

The teenage State Journal-Register newspaper carrier injured in a dramatic crash near Rochester early Wednesday is improving at Memorial Medical Center.

Tornado warning sirens chased lawmakers to the statehouse basement, a semitrailer was blown from a roadway and homes and an airport building were damaged as severe storms battered parts of Illinois and Indiana ...

It took a close encounter with a deer on the highway to get Phillip Wilson thinking about bicycling to work.

Welcome to the severe weather blog, updated currently by online editor Jason Piscia.

The Beardstown School Board approved the hiring of Scott Riddle for high school principal, pending contract approval, at Wednesday night's board meeting.

WHAT'S OPEN AND WHAT'S NOT Closed Federal, state, city and county offices U.S. Postal Service Springfield public schools Robert Morris College Lincoln Library and its branches Lincoln Land Community College ...

Sue Dwyer of St. Charles clutches her sons Spc. Thomas Dwyer, left, and Sgt. Dan Dwyer after the ... Photo 1 of 22 Sgt.

Events that began south of Da Nang in Vietnam culminated Friday, nearly 38 years later, in the presentation of a Purple Heart to William Siders of Edinburg.