Springfield News

The runners-up to Merriam-Webster's 2009 Word of the Year (admonish), with definitions from the publisher's collegiate dictionary and, when applicable, the news event or story that generated the interest in the word: - Emaciated (adj.): To cause to lose flesh...

Should disgraced ex-Gov. George Ryan be given a partial state pension of $60,000 a year for his tenure as a county official, state legislator and lieutenant governor?...Those are the questions facing the Illinois Supreme Court after the seven justices heard...

Michael Finton loved to hang out with pals at Seals Fish & Chicken restaurant in Decatur and give an acerbic running commentary on the news shows playing on the kitchen TV. He would also preach about religion, claiming that young...

Al Martino, the chart-topping Italian-American crooner of ballads such as "Spanish Eyes" and "Volare" who played the wedding singer in "The Godfather," has died age 82, reports said Wednesday. Martino's career spanned half a century, and at his peak in...

The political fight over Cook County's unpopular sales tax increase moved to Springfield on Wednesday, with board President Todd Stroger beating back lawmakers' attempt to repeal the tax hike but losing a separate fight to curb his veto authority. Both...

Illinois voters will be asked in November 2010 whether they want to give themselves the option of recalling a governor in the wake of indicted ex- Gov. Rod Blagojevich 's fall from power. The Senate gave the final sign-off Thursday...

The Illinois General Assembly today turned up the pressure on Gov. Pat Quinn to find money for scholarships for low-income college students, sending him legislation that authorizes spending for the grants but doesn't include a way to pay for them....

The CEO of agribusiness leader Archer Daniels Midland Co. received compensation worth $14.9 million in fiscal 2009, a decrease of nearly 2 percent from the previous year, according to an Associated Press calculation of figures filed with regulators.

Redshirt freshman quarterback Thomas O’Brien, starting in his first game, threw for 211 yards and two touchdowns as South Dakota State held on for the win in Springfield. Missouri State pulled within a touchdown on a 5-yard pass from Cody...