Alabama legislators are asking questions and learning more about how President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” will affect the state budget, and some of the answers are troubling. The law cut federal ...

The University of Illinois Springfield is offering free tax preparation services for the first time. The program is part of the Internal Revenue Service’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, ...

U.S. News & World Report has released its newest ranking of the best online education programs, and multiple Midwest schools were named among the top. According to the list of 2026 Best Online ...

Two new anti-human trafficking initiatives will soon be coming to Montgomery County. One of those initiatives is a pilot program that will embed caseworkers into the county’s children services agency, ...

Illinois could soon opt into the first federal school voucher program — an initiative long-championed by private school advocates and religious conservatives — but Gov. JB Pritzker has yet to weigh in ...

ATLANTA — Georgia Governor Brian Kemp says the state is opting into a newly established federal school voucher program, despite concerns from critics that it could divert money away from public school ...

OpenJDK project teams will focus work on features such as value types, code reflection, AOT compilation, and structured concurrency in the coming year. Oracle’s Java team in 2026 will work toward ...

Two Illinois universities were named among the most beautiful in the country by the magazine Travel + Leisure. The list of 30 ranges from southern beauties like the University of Georgia to the ...

Iowa is opting into a federal tax credit program created by President Donald Trump's "One Big, Beautiful Bill" that will fund scholarships for students attending private school. The federal ...

A massive hole was left in a tree from the pileated woodpecker. Wanted man arrested after SWAT standoff in Clermont County; girlfriend also arrested Police said they knew the suspect would be at the ...

SPRINGFIELD – Three Boys & Girls Clubs afterschool sites will re-open for next semester, thanks to a grant that was awarded to the Springfield school district. Programs will reopen for one semester, ...