07/14/11 It's an uncertain future for nearly two thousand jobs at the arsenal. Local lawmakers were in Washington Thursday, discussing downsizing on the island. Two of them tell us it was a productive meeting
07/14/11 Members of the Iowa and Illinois congressional delegation say any attempt to close or relocate the Rock Island Arsenal's Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center will be met with strong resistance in Congress.
07/14/11 The U-S debt clock is ticking up to a financial D-day. Negotiations are going nowhere because no one can get along. PrimeTime's Jeff Atkinson explains in our Cover Story.
07/14/11 The Plausibility of Secession, an NCAA Hypothetical Over the past several weeks there has been a loud uproar, raging like the rapids of the Kentucky River, on athletic message boards up and down the Eastern Seaboard. The talk of possible expansion into the Atlantic Coast Conference reached an all-time high following the introduction of a hypothetical situation on the website Southern Pigskin ...
07/14/11 At a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania in early April, President Obama was asked about a proposed $7 billion, 2,000-mile pipeline to ship crude from Alberta's oil sands to Gulf Coast refineries. The pipeline is awaiting a decision on a permit at the State Department.
07/14/11 SOUTH BEND, Ind. - A Purdue University student is asking a judge to block a request that the school release the...
07/14/11 The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which receives about $1 million a day in taxpayer funds, should be investigated by Congress, a group of House Republicans said in a Capitol Hill event Thursday. "We have got to shine light on this situation and get the facts out to the American ...
07/14/11 American Electric Power Co. (AEP) will stop work on a low-carbon coal-fired power plant as political support shrinks in the U.S. for regulating heat-trapping emissions linked to climate change.
07/05/11 Indiana is among the top three freest states in the country. That's according to the study "Freedom in the 50 states: An Index in Personal and Economic Freedom" by George Mason University.
07/05/11 DALLAS (SMU) - SMU running back Zach Line has been named to the Watch List for the Maxwell Award, the Maxwell Football Club announced today. The junior is one of 66 players named to the list for the award, which has been given to America's outstanding collegiate football player since 1937 and is named in honor of sportswriter Robert W. "Tiny" Maxwell.
07/05/11 U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan suggested in an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell last week that one thing that separates schooling in the U.S. from the top-performing countries is while the U.S. has focused more on smaller class sizes, other countries have zeroed in on teacher quality. "We spent billions of dollars to reduce class size. As a parent, we all love small class size ...
07/05/11 Jim Bowman doesn't have an official office or business cards. No permanent staff or letterhead.
07/05/11 Get Business Mobile Text Alerts : Text BIZ To 37798 MXenergy Holdings Inc., a Stamford-based supplier of natural gas and electricity, has been acquired by Constellation Energy of Baltimore for $175 million.
07/05/11 Most teams in college basketball have had a degree of success in their histories. Some teams have found more success than others, whether it be the UCLA Bruins from John Wooden, or the Duke Blue Devils from Mike Krzyzewski . To become a truly great, winning program, you must find success and maintain it. The following 50 teams have all found success at different points, and they have maintained ...
07/05/11 In recognition of the busy summer travel season, Mitsubishi Motors and Kids Safety First , in conjunction with Dorel Juvenile Group USA, a division of Dorel Industries Inc. , will host child safety seat inspection events at Mitsubishi dealerships in nine states ? Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Virginia, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Washington.
06/24/11 A federal grand jury handed down a 37-count indictment Friday against the owner/operator of a private security firm, US Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois Stephen Wigginton said.
06/24/11 We are continuing our Preseason College Football Countdown, ranking every team at the Football Bowl Subdivision level from 120 down to 1.
06/24/11 Preservation work is underway on the Illinois Monument on Missionary Ridge, Cathleen Cook, Chickamauga Park superintendent, said.
06/24/11 Attorney General Kamala D. Harris and 37 other attorneys general announced a $40.75 million settlement with GlaxoSmithKline, LLC and SB Pharmco Puerto Rico, Inc. for alleged substandard drug manufacturing processes.
06/16/11 The defending champion looked like she was about to become a former champion, but Brittany Atterbury refused to lose. | 
