Galesburg News

Joanne Sandy remembers her reaction when the Illinois budget crisis forced her off the job at Bethany for Children & Families this week.

The man with diamonds in his grass was up early Tuesday morning, according to Tom Lowey of the Galesburg Register-Mail. 'I've got to work in a few hours,' Randy Dockstader said as he sat inside his house at 1046 E. Fremont St.

They didn't look real. They looked like models. Clean and organized and moving around the BNSF Train Yard at Galesburg, with cars being sorted and organized here and there.

Henderson County flood victims eligible for home loans. The Hawk Eye Henderson County residents still struggling a year after the historic Flood of 2008 can apply for U.S. Department of Agriculture funds through the Galesburg USDA Rural Development.

A year after the brutal murders of a Sherwood couple in a motel parking lot at a St.

A line of strong thunderstorms rolled through area Saturday evening producing heavy rainfall and strong wind gusts.

One year has passed since the horrible killings of a rural Sterling man and four Rock Falls residents.

Local health officials say they have found mosquitoes carrying the West Nile Virus is Knox County in west-central Illinois.

A meth lab in Galesburg has apparently been broken up. Multimedia Watch The Video Galesburg Police and the Illinois State Meth Response Team executed two search warrants at 1102 Garden Lane, Galesburg on Tuesday.

Karla Benson was at a crossroads in her life. She had taken her two young sons, Tyler and Logan, to stay with her father in Galesburg, Ill.

The kindness of strangers nudged a shy conformist into ad-lib living. By Leon Logothetis , published on March 01, 2009 - last reviewed on June 10, 2009 There are moments in our lives when we have the choice to embrace opportunity and redefine ourselves or continue down the well-trodden path of mediocrity.

More than 3,000 officers from Illinois took to the streets to raise money for this years Special Olympics Illinois.

One person is confirmed dead after an early morning fire at a Galesburg motel. Galesburg Fire Chief John Cratty would not release information about the victim or confirm if the victim was male or female, pending notification of family.

A hotel fire in Galesburg claims the life of one man early Friday morning. The flames also all but destroyed the building.

Dr. Letitia Westgate of Sycamore was "a woman ahead of her time," said Phyllis Kelley, DeKalb County historian and author of a book about Sycamore for Arcadia Publishing Co.'s "Images of America" series.

A Knox County judge has sentenced a 33-year-old man to 28 years in prison for fatally shooting a Chicago man at a pub in western Illinois last year.

When you have gone mano-a-mano with the Gambino crime family, slogged through the wreckage of an embassy bombing, pursued Osama bin Laden and Scooter Libby and strung up two Illinois governors, what's a little precip? "Timing is everything," said Patrick Fitzgerald, the seemingly fearless federal prosecutor, as the rain began to fall Saturday on ...

This year's commencement speaker at Knox College was U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the top federal prosecutor in Chicago.

Florida resident David "Jeff" Walton concedes that he doesn't remember much about his time at Knox College - let alone his graduation.

BYU students help raise a cabin while spending a semester studying in Nauvoo. In 1841, Joseph Smith envisioned a great university: a oeWe hope to make this institution one of the great lights of the worlda for the public good, and also for private and individual happiness.a A He was not talking about BYU, but rather the University of the City of ...