Jenee' Jolly is excited and prepared to teach first graders at Lincoln Elementary School in the Springfield City School District.

The Springfield Cardinals bashed out four home runs in Thursday night's 8-1 victory over the Wind Surge. That was Springfield's eight consecutive win, tying the longest winning streak of this season.

The Cardinals placed their center fielder on the injured list and brought up another outfielder for his big league debut. Read more at MLBTR.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The 141st USA Archery Target Nationals concluded today in Springfield, marking the first time the event was held at Betty & Bobby Allison Sports Town. The championship attrac… ...

“I have all these big dreams and these big aspirations,” says Jayla Ward, an incoming first-year student at Northern Illinois University and the first in her family to go to college.

Republicans still searching for statewide candidates as GOP rallies at State Fair More than a decade removed from the last time a Republican won a statewide election in Illinois, state GOP leaders ...

ST. ROSE, Ill. — An Illinois man is facing multiple charges after police say he secretly placed hidden cameras inside port-a-potties at a local church picnic.

The UK's first ever lesbian archbishop has hit back at critics who claimed her appointment will lead to a church exodus, declaring it is 'not wrong' for her to love her partner.

Reverend Jeff Shaver will deliver his first sermon as the new full-time solo pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Red Bluff on Sunday. Shaver was hired on June 8 to take over the 160-year-old churc… ...