Illinois quarterback Luke Altmyer celebrates during the Illini’s 21-17 win against South Carolina in the Citrus Bowl. Altmyer ...

Brad Underwood’s Illinois men’s basketball team will try to avoid posting its first losing streak since March 2023 when the ...

Teacher Eric Miller writes the Philo school’s play each year, and he takes it seriously — penning the work the summer before ...

Eric Miller, center, junior high teacher at St. Thomas Catholic School in Philo, with the script he wrote and members of the ...

St. Thomas More's Hunter Madigan (far left) takes a picture with his teammates after Saturday's Mattoon Invitational. LeRoy's ...

Owner Jessica Trefzger is surprised by the success of The Hive Honey Beetique’s business in Mahomet. It’s been a rapid ascent ...

The Supreme Court has blocked, for now, the deportations of any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th-century wartime law. The court's brief order directed the Trump administration not ...

Tributes to Pope Francis are pouring in from around the world. The Vatican announced the pontiff’s death on Monday at age 88. Many recalled his legacy as the first pope ...

Bob Asmussen is a college football reporter and columnist for The News-Gazette. He can be reached at 217-393-8248 or asmussen ...

Pope Francis had an informal, lighthearted speaking style. When Francis met Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI for the first time after being elected in 2013, he said, “We are brothers!” He ...

Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons. But he upheld it in other areas, such as abortion and celibacy for ...

It’s time once again to dive in to another round of quick takes on the people, places and events that were being talked about ...