CHAMPAIGN – The University of Illinois football team held its annual moms’ practice on Saturday at Gies Memorial Stadium. “Today is always a fun day. It’s fun for our kids,” Illinois head coach Bret ...

NORMAL – Having one daughter play a sport in a Division I school is one thing. Dale Boyer, a Paxton native, acknowledges that he and his wife, Amy Boyer, are “really lucky” to have two daughters ...

PAXTON – The Paxton-Buckley-Loda varsity softball team lost 9-0 to Oakwood on Saturday. Kyla Grohler hit 2-for-3 while Faith Lusk and Meredith Foster each doubled. On the mound, Foster struck out ...

CISSNA PARK – The Cissna Park varsity baseball team lost 9-6 to Ridgeview on Saturday. Wyatt Marcott hit 2-for-3 with an RBI and two runs scored while Seth Walder went 2-for-4 with an RBI. Evan ...

Eugene Ehme “Gene” Schmidt, 87 of Springfield, formerly of Gifford, died at 9:25 a.m. Friday, April 10, 2026, at Concordia Village, Springfield. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, ...

PAXTON — A former Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School teacher accused of soliciting a teenager for sex will remain jailed through trial, a judge ruled Thursday. During a rescheduled detention hearing in ...

JUNIOR HIGH At Paxton 7th-grade boys Team scores 1. Paxton-Buckley-Loda, 55; 2. Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley, 46; 3. Rantoul St. Malachy, 8. 100-meter dash 1. Conner Smith (GCMS) 14:04; 2. Aaron Williams ...

BISMARCK – The Paxton-Buckley-Loda boys and girls track and field teams each finished second at a meet on Thursday at Bismarck-Henning-Rossville-Alvin High School. The PBL boys finished with a score ...

Here are some sights from Friday's game, which PBL won 10-9 in nine innings ...

BISMARCK – The Cissna Park varsity baseball team lost 10-0 to Bismarck-Henning-Rossville-Alvin on Thursday. Jream Renteria provided Cissna Park’s lone hit as he went 1-for-2. On the mound, Wyatt ...

BUCKLEY -- Before the village can move forward with building a sanitary sewer treatment plant and collection system for Buckley, the town board must first determine how to make up a nearly $2 million ...

DOWNS – The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley varsity baseball team lost 9-0 to Tri-Valley on Thursday. Graydon Leonard, Brayden Bradbury and Zeb Greer each provided one hit for GCMS. On the mound, Conner ...