217 Today: People who are incarcerated can face retaliation when they report staff sexual misconduct

217 Today: Citing the mental health crisis, some hope to see Illinois legalize psilocybin

Tuesday, April 16, 2024 Today’s headlines: The U.S. Supreme Court seems ready to narrow a federal bribery law used in some big Chicago corruption cases.

Ebertfest Festival Director highlights its 25 year history

CHAMPAIGN – Opening night of Eberfest is Wednesday, April 17th at the Virginia Theatre in downtown Champaign. Now in its 25th year, the annual film

Citing the mental health crisis, some hope to see Illinois legalize psilocybin

After graduating from high school, Justin Wigg said he craved adventure, which led him to serve in the Marine Corps for five years during the

Central Illinois Headlines – April 16, 2024

Urbana Schools to vote on which elementary school will become fully multilingual URBANA – Urbana School District 116 is set to vote Tuesday on which

Newspapers in rural areas are folding, leaving vast news deserts. But there are bright spots

https://play.podtrac.com/npr-1244411030/cpa.ds.npr.org/s60/audio/2024/04/newspapersweb.mp3 The U.S. has lost more than 2,800 newspapers since 2005, many of them in rural areas. Now some journalists are redoubling their efforts to

Trump’s history-making hush money trial starts Monday with jury selection

Trump is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee for November’s election. He has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records as part of an alleged effort to keep salacious stories about his sex life from emerging during his 2016 campaign.