Springfield News

Less than a month before the Civil War's start, a newly inaugurated President Lincoln took time from his frantic schedule to write to an Illinois boy whose classmates didn't believe he'd met the president.

Updated at 12:55 p.m. ET . A Senate ethics panel cleared Sen. Roland Burris of any legal wrongdoing, after months of questions swirling around his appointment to the Senate seat President Obama left vacant upon taking office.

A federal grand jury in Peoria has once again indicted a former prep basketball talent analyst on bank robbery charges.

A letter written by former US President Abraham Lincoln to a schoolboy nearly 150 years ago is to go on sale for $60,000 in Philadelphia.

A letter President Abraham Lincoln wrote to a boy whose friends didn't believe he had met the commander in chief is being sold in Philadelphia.

Champaign- It's been almost 3 weeks since a Hispanic male was attacked at the corner of Second and Park Streets and the police are still asking for help finding his attacker.

The NewsRadio WTAX First Book Gift of Reading is underway. This holiday season we have teamed up with Marine Bank to collect new books for Pre-K through 2nd graders in the Springfield School District.

Authorities in Springfield have identified a 66-year-old man who was killed when he became pinned between his truck and the front end of a piece of heavy equipment at a waste management facility.

The Lincoln Academy of Illinois will honor outstanding senior college students during its annual Student Laureate Convocation at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Old State Capitol State Historic Site in Springfield.

Investigators said the teen was stopped in Springfield, Illinois around 11:30, Monday night and is being held in the county's juvenile center until he is extradited back to Jackson.

President Obama's former colleagues in the Illinois state Senate used him as a punching bag Thursday in the first debate among all seven Republicans running for governor.

Illinois artist Bob Waldmire, known for selling his artwork along Route 66, said he is dying of cancer and using his remaining time saying goodbye to friends.

The November 5 of the Springfield, Illinois daily newspaper, the State Journal-Register, has this interview with Richard Whitney, who was the Green Party's candidate for Governor in 2006 and is expected to again be that party's gubernatorial nominee in 2010.

" Anyone with a computer can now see and hear the history of Illinois agriculture told by the people who lived it.

Commissioners are considering an ordinance that would change the way city elections are held.

This past year has been one of the FBI's busiest - at least when it comes to terrorism cases.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Senate signed off Friday on a compromise that would establish Illinois' first limits on campaign donations, sending it to the governor despite Republican complaints that the bill concentrates power in the hands of a few political insiders.

Local churches are trying to quell violence by bringing faith to the streets of Springfield.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Authorities say a longtime Springfield manufacturer could be on its way to Mexico, at a cost of 120 local jobs.

A 24-year-old Tilton man plead guilty Tuesday in the shaking death of two-year-old Reagan Williams.