In the fall of 2022, two Urbana High School freshmen approached biology teacher Jeff Birdsley with an idea: They wanted to ...

Faces of Spring photo shoot at the News-Gazette in Champaign on Sunday, February 23, 2025. Faces of Spring photo shoot at the ...

Scott Richey covers college basketball for The News-Gazette. His email is [email protected], and you can follow him on ...

In 1773, one unidentified official's disagreement with his boss, and his actions to inform Americans about it, played a big ...

Born and raised in Champaign, Taliah Abdullah was a student of the Unit 4 school system, studied at Parkland College and ...

Iowa U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin went searching for a gimmick to draw attention to his campaign for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.

The junior's four hits — including a triple and a home run — and seven strikeouts helped St. Joseph-Ogden down Oakwood at Meier Field ...

A planned meeting between top U.S., British, French and Ukrainian diplomats to push for a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine has been scrapped at the last minute amid little ...

The Vatican has opened St. Peter’s Basilica to the general public to pay their final respects to Pope Francis, with thousands of people filling the central aisle and Swiss Guards ...

His son, Micheal Cresap, is credited with helping to save Washington’s army at the start of the Revolutionary War in 1775.

Health officials in the Gaza Strip say more than 400 dialysis patients have died during the 18-month Israel-Hamas war because of lack of proper treatment. Israel has restricted the supply ...

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