On a late July morning, Blake Gerard zips across his Southern Illinois rice farm on a four-wheeler, wearing his usual USA Rice shirt and shorts that hit above the knee. It’s the only rice farm in ...

McCLURE — One Southern Illinois man’s decadeslong fight to convert his fields into rice paddies demonstrates how it’s possible to bring diversity to the Corn Belt, but improbable so long as federal ...

Young football players locked in a huddle in the 1960s, jealously guarding their strategy for the next play. Getty Images During a tight game in the fall of 1894, Paul Hubbard—quarterback for the ...

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Capitol News Illinois. A portion of the reporting in Alexander County is supported by funding from the Pulitzer ...

Bob Regola served a single term in the Pennsylvania Senate, from 2005 to 2009, representing a district centered on Westmoreland County. Before that, he was a supervisor in one of the county’s ...

Convenience store chain Circle K has a back-to-school deal that can bring your gas expenditure to a record low, at least for one day. Circle K, which has more than 4,000 stores in 22 states, is giving ...

Circle K is offering a 40-cent per gallon discount on Aug. 21. Only members of Circle K Inner Circle rewards program get the discount. Arizona gas prices are currently averaging $3.28 per gallon, ...

Detroit Lions rookie defensive tackle Tyleik Williams has impressed the coaching staff early in training camp. With 11 training camp practices in the books, Williams has displayed the exact knack for ...

When Hannah Cairo was 17 years old, she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a long-standing guess in the field of harmonic analysis about how waves behave on curved surfaces. The conjecture ...

College can feel like being a small fish in a big pond, often leading to loneliness, a well documented mental health risk factor. Encouraging students to create a circle of support at their college ...

On Tuesday, Adobe launched two new generative AI features in beta, powered by Adobe Firefly: Harmonize and Generative Upscale. Even if you are not a creative professional or marketer who uses ...

When the Lakers traded for Luka Dončić in the wee hours of Feb. 2, the immediate thought was that it was a fake report. After a few minutes and confirmation, reality set in, and the next immediate ...