A water service line broke about noon Tuesday on West Mill Street, where there is ongoing construction.A repair team is working to fix the water line, according to the Carbondale Water and Sewage Department.Sean...

Students on campus this fall will be able to breathe easier now that the university has a campus-wide no smoking policy.The new policy went into effect on July 1 in accordance to the Illinois Smoke-Free...

The foundation tasked with building the Barack Obama Presidential Center will cast a global net in its search for an architect, asking designers from the United States and overseas to compete for the prized...

The man gripped a gun as he stood behind members of the news crew, watching them do a live broadcast. The journalists didn't seem to notice that he had pointed the weapon right at them.On Wednesday morning,...

Almost a year after Live Young Productions Promotions & Entertainment’s “Thirsty Thursdays” were canceled, the group will be back this week with “Live Young Thursdays,” a weekly party at Social...

The pension-funding crisis undermining the stability of Illinois and Chicago is rippling through hundreds of smaller governments, squeezing budgets as officials prop up teetering police and fire retirement...

Gov. Bruce Rauner on Monday sought to rewrite a wide-ranging measure aimed at curbing heroin use, eliminating a requirement that the state's Medicaid health care program for the poor pay for medication...

Moments after the U.S. stock market opened Monday, anyone checking prices might have rubbed their eyes in disbelief: The Dow Jones industrial average had plunged nearly 1,100 points."A four-digit decline...