Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen was forced into a draw Monday by more than 143,000 people worldwide playing against him in a single, record-setting game.

John Staab became the first Champaign Central coach — in any sport — to reach 500 wins on Monday when his Maroons baseball ...

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP) — Indiana officials have executed a man convicted in the 2000 killing of a police officer. Benjamin Ritchie died by injection early Tuesday at the Indiana State Prison in ...

Israeli strikes overnight and into Tuesday have killed at least 60 people across the Gaza Strip. That's according to Palestinian health officials. Israel has launched another major offensive in the ...

The National Weather Service is warning of still more days of dangerous weather conditions across the central U.S. The agency ...

Chris Saunders, founder and owner of Green Street Realty, has been named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Parkland College ...

Gazette's Athletes of the Week, powered by Copper Creek Contractors. Each Monday, The News-Gazette will publish an online ...

"A sea of orange for the birthday boy," Willie Geist said on NBC's "Sunday Today" show, wishing his Illini superfan father, ...

The football team isn't the only thing that's expected to improve at Memorial Stadium in the near future: internet speed is ...

The top two freshmen in ESPN’s final 2025 high school girls’ basketball recruiting rankings will spend next winter in the Big ...

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