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A moment during the first media timeout of No. 25 Illinois' 87-40 win over Maryland-Eastern Shore on Saturday stood out to ...

I am grateful they will all take home leftovers so we will not gain five pounds each, consuming hundreds of thousands of ...

From left, Bert Lahr as the Lion, Ray Bolger as the Scarecrow, Judy Garland as Dorothy and Jack Haley as the Tinman in ‘The ...

A deal is a deal — even if it’s a dirty, stinkin’, rotten one made by a politically compromised prosecutor who sold out the ...

When Lila De’s mother calls her at 7:15 a.m. on her birthday after giving her the silent treatment for over a year, Lila is ...

Howard and Sandy Sanders, the parents of 10.10 Elopements founder Emily Suddarth, pictured on Oct. 10, 1981, the day they ...

Japan held a memorial ceremony on Sunday near the Sado Island Gold Mines, listed this summer as a UNESCO World Heritage site after the country moved ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — When Kenyan police arrived in Haiti as part of a U.N.-backed mission earlier this year to tackle gang violence, hopes were high. Coordinated gang attacks on prisons, ...

An Israeli strike on a Lebanese army center has killed one soldier and wounded 18 others, the Lebanese military said. The Hezbollah militant group meanwhile fired barrages of rockets into ...

Sign up for our daily Illini football newsletter here. PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Pat Bryant threw his helmet down on the sideline as ...

Fans at State Farm Center saw the end of Illinois' football game at Rutgers before the Illini hosted Maryland-Eastern Shore ...