* Newstin.com is for sale! * After achieving our strategic milestone, we are offering for sale: Newstin.com and all 14 related domains featuring 1 million unique visitors per month + continuously updated news database of 37 million articles in 12 world languages from 166,000 global and weighted sources + 2.1 billion metadata * To seize this unique chance, contact invest@newstin.com. * Newstin.com is for sale! *

Springfield (Illinois)

4 bodies found in houseboat

Carbon monoxide poisoning is suspected in the deaths of four adults who were found dead Sunday in a houseboat in Calhoun County, Ill., authorities said today. Autopsies will be conducted in Springfield, Ill., to help determine...

Bank of America Settles Lawsuit Over Bad Mortgages

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Facing a lawsuit over deceptive mortgage practices, a Bank of America Corp. subsidiary has agreed to modify tens of thousands of loans to keep people in 11 states from losing their homes, the Illinois...

Obama's role in Ill. ethics bill was complicated

By DENNIS CONRAD and CHRISTOPHER WILLS SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Barack Obama likes to give himself star billing for his role in enacting ethics reforms in Illinois a decade ago, but he didn't act alone. "When I was in Illinois, I...

News Minute: Bus crash...Mortgage help...Campaign mud slinging

Associated Press - October 6, 2008 1:43 AM ET SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Facing a lawsuit over deceptive mortgage practices, a Bank of America subsidiary will modify tens of thousands of loans so people in 11 states don't lose...

State officials say it's Resident Rights Week

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - State officials say it's Residents' Rights Week. The week is designed to draw attention to care of residents in nursing homes and long term care facilities. The Illinois Department on Aging says the...

Illinois becoming more tardy in paying bills

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois Comptroller Dan Hynes says in a new report the state finished the first three months of its budget year with a mountain of unpaid bills and record delays in payments. The report goes on to say the...

FBI raids Obama friend's home

Andrea Billups Friday, October 3, 2008 Sen. Barack Obama hugs Will County executive Larry Walsh in a hotel in Springfield, Ill., in February 2008. (Associated Press) The FBI on Wednesday raided the county offices of a former...

County clerks await guidance on ballots after Cook County court ruling on constitutional...

By MIKE RIOPELL - County clerks across Illinois are anxiously awaiting a decision that could throw their careful election plans into disarray. A Cook County judge ruled Wednesday that a ballot question asking voters if they...

Man gets OK to display nativity at Ill. Capitol

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A central Illinois man says Secretary of State Jesse White has given him permission to build a nativity scene inside the Capitol Rotunda in December. Daniel Zanoza of Lincoln says the scene, which depicts...

Obama and Biden's Chemistry Test

Barack Obama introduces his running mate Joseph Biden in Springfield, Illinois On Saturday morning Barack Obama and his newly minted running mate, Joe Biden, stopped at a diner outside Youngstown, Ohio, for some breakfast....

1 2 3 4 5 next »