The Tyree family recently took advantage of our state’s eagerly anticipated annual sales tax holiday on school supplies, clothing and electronics.
Editor's Note: The following is the editorial that appeared in the Dec. 8, 1941, Decatur Herald and Decatur Review:
As much as I adore my garden, by the time fall rolls around part of me is grateful for the end of the growing season.
Nine-hundred-million slices of bacon. That would be enough for three slices for everyone in the United States, minus the vegans. And it is all going to be generated around the Chrisman area where Route 36 crosses the Indiana state line.
“Mr. President, thanks for the cash, it will help pay year-end bills. But the announcement that trade is being re-established with Mexico means even more. The cash is short term, but trade with a growing Mexican population is a long-term tool to help rebuild our struggling farm economy.”
Monsanto’s absorption into Bayer is now official. As with all corporate mergers and acquisitions, there is some bad that comes along with the good.
There were probably many U.S. Department of Agriculture political appointees and career civil service workers on the team that assembled the “trade aid” bail out announced by the White House last week for farmers.
There were probably many U.S. Department of Agriculture political appointees and career civil service workers on the team that assembled the “trade aid” bail out announced by the White House last week for farmers.
Agriculture is at center stage in White House political theatrics and the audience of farmers is finding out the script is unwritten and the actors are ad libbing their lines.
All kinds of people make up this great nation. Seniors, soldiers, individuals with disabilities and newlyweds — they are the workers, civic leaders, social workers and artistic creators of countless things and ideas that help us have better lives every day. All of our collective talents and …
Go ahead. Admit it.
Record heat can fuel fantasies of fleeing to the north.
For the tenure of the Trump administration, the media has been treated as the enemy; the enemy of the administration, and enemy of the people.
Since most Corn Belt farmers supported the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump, many are privately beginning to wonder how the global trade saga will end.
Teacher Ready provides tuition reimbursement for long-term substitutes to earn their teaching certificates
FFA member Greyson Applebee teaches second grade students about catfish as part of a celebration of spring
The Chicago Blackhawks will not wear Pride-themed warmup jerseys before Sunday’s Pride Night game against Vancouver because of security concerns involving a Russian law that expands restrictions on activities seen as promoting LGBTQ rights in the country. The decision was made by the NHL organization following discussions with security officials within and outside the franchise, according to a person familiar with the situation who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the move. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law in December that significantly expands restrictions on activities seen as promoting LGBTQ rights in the country.
The bill, which would prohibit libraries from banning books because of partisan or doctrinal pressure, prompted strong opposition from Republicans who called it an assault on local control.
The mother of a 2-year-old northwestern Indiana girl who died after accidentally shooting herself with a gun she found in her home has been charged with neglect of a dependent. Online court records show the charge has been filed against 28-year-old Abigail Rodriguez of Portage. Hours after shooting herself on Feb. 7, Grace Rodriguez died at Comer Children’s Hospital in Chicago. A Portage police officer wrote in an affidavit that Abigail Rodriguez told investigators that she and her daughter were in the girl’s bedroom when Grace wandered into her mother’s room and shot herself with a 9 mm handgun.
The last of three ex-correctional officers convicted in the beating death of an Illinois prison inmate has been sentenced to six years in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Sue Myerscough handed the sentence Wednesday to Willie Hedden. The 44-year-old Hedden pleaded guilty to civil rights violations and obstruction charges after beating inmate Larry Earvin in May 2018 at Western Illinois Correctional Center. Hedden's cooperation included testifying against co-defendants Todd Sheffler and Alex Banta. Myerscough sentenced each of them to 20 years behind bars.
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Preliminary charges have been filed against a Decatur man for indecent solicitation of a child after requesting sex from a 15-year-old girl in Iowa.
The Decatur Police Department is seeking help in solving a robbery, this week’s crime of the week.
Police noted several screws had been “freshly screwed” into the door upon their arrival.
Formal charges of First Degree Murder have been filed Mattavius A. Anderson in the death of 20-year-old Janiah B. Thomas and her unborn child.
The bill, which would prohibit libraries from banning books because of partisan or doctrinal pressure, prompted strong opposition from Republicans who called it an assault on local control.
Macon County mental healthcare providers are bracing for impact as HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital gets closer to shuttering its inpatient behavioral health services.
Bills moving through the Capitol include a ban on polystyrene food containers, several measures focusing on gender inclusivity and a requirement that expectant parents split pregnancy-related costs, including abortions.
Being the longtime friend of longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan granted Mike McClain certain privileges not afforded to other lobbyists in Springfield, jurors heard Tuesday.