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Powerball and Mega Millions could be leaving Illinois. (Photo by Justgrimes/flickr)By Cole Lauterbach/Illinois Radio NetworkSPRINGFIELD – Illinois will be dropped from the multi-state Powerball ...

2017 history maker inductees Judy Stone, Jeanne and Charles Morris, Jesse Smart, and Craig Hart. By Howard PackowitzBLOOMINGTON – McLean County’s Museum of History honored their lates...

U.S. Rep. Mike Bost said his office had multiple contacts with the gunman in Wednesday’s northern Virginia shooing. (Photo courtesy Facebook/Mike Bost) By RFD Radio/WFMB MURPHSYBORO – Perh...

Lance Pitsch, 28, of Normal will be sentenced in August. (Photo courtesy Matty Ring/flickr) By Eric Stock TAYLORVILLE – A drunk driver from Normal has admitted to being behind the wheel in a cra...

  After a public hearing at City Hall, Bloomington Planning Commissioners backed plans for bike lanes on Washington St.   By Howard Packowitz A plan to add bike lanes to one of Bloomington&#...

PNC bank robbery suspect Zachary Finchum. (Photo courtesy of Bloomington Police.)   By Nick McClintock BLOOMINGTON- A man is in custody after allegedly robbing a bank in Bloomington. Zachary Finc...

U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis was unhurt in a shooting at a ballfield in Alexandria, Virginia on Wednesday morning. (WJBC file photo) By Eric Stock ALEXANDRIA, Va. – U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis of Taylorvil...

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is slamming proposed cuts in aid to other countries.(Photo courtesy Facebook/Dick Durbin) By RFD Radio WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., grilled Secretary of Stat...

The AFSCME union says if the courts shut down state government by agreeing with the Illinois Attorney General that workers can't be paid if there's no budget, then the courts should also determine who...

 City Public Works Director Jim Karch explains the bike lane proposal to Bloomington resident Karen Arsenault at an open house Tuesday at the McLean County Museum of History. By Howard Packo...