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The National Transportation Safety Board is to determine what caused a Chicago Transit Authority train to jump the tracks and scale an escalator at O'Hare International Airport last year.Click to Continue »

A 55-year-old man is facing federal charges after a 13-year-old Missouri girl was found with him in New Mexico.Click to Continue »

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro will be in St. Louis Tuesday for what officials say will be an announcement that will impact economic opportunity in some of the…Click to Continue »

A Southern Illinois University professor has been arrested in the suspected battery of a 22-year-old student.Click to Continue »

A woman must serve at least one year in prison for faking her own kidnapping at a Champaign mall last year.Click to Continue »

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner's administration is negotiating a two-month contract extension with the public relations firm that's handled state promotion of insurance coverage under President Barack Obama's health care law.Click to Continue »

Forsyth officials are hoping increasing interest in disc golf will pay off in terms of leisure time activities and visitors.Click to Continue »

The central Illinois city of Bloomington is considering a plan to make its streets more bicycle-friendly.Click to Continue »

Under a barn's tin roof protecting them from the steady pattering rain, just more than 40 high school students judged horses while they themselves were being judged.Click to Continue »

Commuter rail service to northwest Indiana from Chicago has been disrupted by an accident involving a freight train.Click to Continue »