A Springfield man will appear on Wednesday's episode of Wheel of Fortune which airs on WAND-TV at 6:30 p.m. Eliot Gaines, 50, is a provider service representative for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois.
The two Republican U.S. House members who represent Springfield - both honorary co-chairs of President Donald Trump's re-election effort in Illinois - disagree with the president's budget concerning public broadcasting.
Central Illinois counties led Illinois in corn and soybean production last year as every region and nearly all counties saw decreases in both crops, according to estimates released last week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
A second officer has resigned from the Riverton Police Department following an incident where a suspect was allegedly head-butted at the police station.
WASHINGTON - A former White House doctor says that while he regrets being unable to get President Donald Trump to exercise more, he did manage to slightly improve the president's diet.
The grandfather of a toddler who died after falling from an 11th-floor window of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship in Puerto Rico last year will plead guilty in her death.
WASHINGTON - Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, Congress has approved legislation designating lynching as a hate crime under federal law.
MILWAUKEE - Seven people were killed including a gunman during a shooting rampage on the Milwaukee campus of Molson Coors on Wednesday afternoon, according to multiple sources who spoke to the Journal Sentinel.
