BLOOMINGTON — The Salvation Army of McLean County is accepting donations of new or gently used fans — and money to buy fans — to give to community members without air conditioning.

BLOOMINGTON — Registration is open for McLean County children to learn water safety skills at the Bloomington-Normal YMCA, 602 S. Main St.

 

SPRINGFIELD – Gov. Pat Quinn and Illinois’ top legislative leaders have agreed on a plan they hope will finally fix the state’s massively underfunded employee pension systems.

MACKINAW — A former Mackinaw resident attending Southern Illinois University in Carbondale has been killed in a traffic accident in that community.

LEXINGTON — Two adults and two children from Palos Hills were hospitalized in Peoria after their minivan rolled several times along Interstate 55 near Lexington.

NORMAL — Mayor Chris Koos hopes some private interest will be spiked through contacts made by a company conducting an uptown grocery store feasibility study.

URBANA (AP) — Some Urbana residents are upset and calling for the library director's resignation after thousands of books were mistakenly removed from the shelves.

BLOOMINGTON — OSF St. Joseph Medical Center will have a new president in addition to a new vice president of hospital operations later this year.

Roughly half of all Americans now think the White House was behind the Internal Revenue Service decision to target conservative political groups, a growing belief at odds with information recently provided to CNN by congressional investigators.

Afghanistan has suspended security talks with the United States, Afghan President Hamid Karzai's office said Wednesday.

Police in Mexico arrested Walter Lee Williams, a man on the FBI's list of most wanted criminals, late Tuesday, Mexican state news agency Notimex reported.

A campfire left untended sparked a blaze near Yosemite National Park that is threatening hundreds of homeowners, but firefighters are starting to get a handle on it.

A police dog died of heat stroke after being left in a patrol car in Woodstock, Georgia, authorities said Tuesday.

President Barack Obama will call for up to a one-third cut in nuclear warheads by the United States and Russia during a speech in Berlin on Wednesday, a senior administration official said.

A film documentary, which includes six members of TWA Flight 800's crash investigation team, suggests the deadly 1996 explosion was no accident. The filmmakers say they will petition the NTSB to re-open the investigation. FULL STORY

A mentally disabled woman and child were "locked in rooms, forced to work all the time, threatened, beaten and injured, exploited, used as pawns to get drugs," a prosecutor says. FULL STORY

Getting children to take a nap can be hard. Getting them to eat pancakes is not nearly as difficult.

A 59-year-old man lay bloody on the driveway. His son stood nearby, both his hands cut off at the wrist.

LeBron James shrugged off a poor start to get 32 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds, Ray Allen hit a 3-pointer with 5.2 seconds to play to force OT and the Heat staved off elimination with a 103-100 victory over the Spurs in Game 6 of the NBA Finals.

LeBron James shrugged off a poor start to get 32 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds, Ray Allen hit a 3-pointer with 5.2 seconds to play to force OT and the Heat staved off elimination with a 103-100 victory over the Spurs in Game 6 of the NBA Finals.

Serena Williams says in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine that, while not blaming the victim in the Steubenville rape case, "she shouldn't have put herself in that position."

Major League Baseball is dragging its feet on having team owners vote on the Oakland Athletics' proposed move to a new ballpark 40 miles south in San Jose, San Jose city officials said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

Investigators searched New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez's North Attleboro, Mass., home Tuesday in connection with the death of a man who police said was an associate of Hernandez, ABC News reported.

Brian Holberton homered, Trent Thornton pitched a strong seven innings and No. 1 national seed North Carolina extended its stay at the College World Series with a 4-2 victory over LSU on Tuesday.

Mark Teixeira is back on the 15-day disabled list with an aching right wrist, while Kevin Youkilis will be out 10-12 weeks for surgery to repair a herniated disk.

The Los Angeles Clippers informed the Boston Celtics on Tuesday morning they are pulling out of talks to acquire Kevin Garnett and Doc Rivers, sources told ESPN.com.