Cooling assistance program underway for Ameren

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If you were hoping for cooling assistance through Ameren’s Warm Neighbors Cool Friends program this summer, a change in the program’s qualifications may impact you. The utility’s Shane Hartman says the program opened statewide June 1 with

Illinois court tosses conviction over Facebook photo

ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) – An appellate court has tossed a central Illinois man’s gun conviction, ruling a lower court shouldn’t have allowed a Facebook photograph of him standing near guns to be entered as evidence.

Closing arguments set for missing Chinese scholar case

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) – Closing arguments are set for the federal death penalty trial of a former University of Illinois doctoral student charged with kidnapping and killing a 26-year-old visiting scholar from China.

Report: Former housing official hasn’t paid

CAIRO, Ill. (AP) – A published report says the former director of a southern Illinois housing authority ordered to pay a $500,000 fine for mismanaging public housing funds and program fraud hasn’t made a single payment after

Cooper, David L.

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Mr. David L Cooper, 57, of Galesburg died at 9:15 a.m. Thursday, June 21, 2019,at home.

O’Dean, Linda J.

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Ms. Linda J. O’Dean, 71, of Galesburg, Illinois died 8:52 a.m. Friday, June 21, 2019, at Marigold Rehab and Health Care Center, Galesburg.