PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...

Robert J. Jones, chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been named president of the University of Washington.

Jacobi’s ‘Lincoln and Douglas,’ young readers will connect with a determined Abraham Lincoln as he faces setbacks, rivalries, ...

The plea deals follow a 2023 investigation by The Star that revealed a series of connections between a Jackson County town ...

Authorities say a more than 100-vehicle pileup in whiteout conditions has closed part of a major interstate along the ...

The precautionary boil water advisory in north St. Louis County has been lifted after a 30-inch water main rupture caused a temporary drop in water system pressure, affecting 23,000 residents.

The tax credit designed to assist low-income homeowners and renters hasn’t been updated since 2008. As a result, fewer people ...

More than a hundred people were experiencing homelessness in Eastern Jackson County during the last point-in-time count, and ...

ADAIR COUNTY- Mo — Adair County has been officially designated as an "Agri-Ready" county after the county commission ...

Local farmers face an uncertain future as the closure of the USAID program, a major buyer of agricultural products, impacts crop sales and research benefits. Farmers like Zach Talbott express concerns ...

"People are sick. My kids were sick." Farm owners forced to evacuate home after disturbing discovery: 'It's in my home, it's ...

Trump Says He Will Rework Global Trading Relations With ‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs President Trump signed a memorandum ordering his advisers to calculate new tariff levels for other countries, a ...