Knoxville News

QUAD CITIES, Iowa/Ill. - Here is an updated list of the firework displays still planned and postponed around the Quad Cities Area.

The visitation for Scott Lindecker, the Charleston police officer who died Sunday night, will be held today at 2 p.m. at the Adams Funeral Chapel, 2330 Shawnee Drive in Charleston.

Major Patrick Hobart, TCC Employee of the Month. Thomson Correctional Center is proud to announce that the Employee of Month for May 2009 is Major Patrick Hobart.

The Times welcomes six newcomers to the new Write Team that begins Monday. Joining them will be six alums, including a couple who were on the original team that was introduced in 2001.

Illinois Farm Bureau is pleased to announce that Jake Anderson has been hired as manager of the Stark County Farm Bureau, effective May 1, 2009.

After a 50-minute heated discussion in closed session Monday night, members of the Knoxville City Council voted against offering an employment contract to a current police officer.

As dusk settles over the Knox County landscape, Liam and Arianne Collins run to the playground equipment in their yard for one last swing before darkness sets in.

Illinois lawmakers are backing a proposal that would let people get paid for providing full-time care at home to their disabled spouses.

No matter the outcome of the April 7 election, several of Knox County's municipalities likely will be seeing some new faces.

A bout with tendonitis did not seem to faze Alyssa Donner at the Illinois Prep Top Times Indoor Classic.

Illinois State Police are investigating a two-vehicle fatal crash on Interstate 74 west bound at Mile Marker 58, two miles east of Knoxville that occurred 7:35 p.m. Thursday.

Four fire departments responded to a fire early Wednesday that caused substantial damage to the inside of a restaurant.

An unemployed truck driver seething over liberalism told police he opened fire in a church last year because it harbored gays and multiracial families and he hoped others would follow his example.

Mar. 10--KNOXVILLE -- A proposed task force to help determine site considerations for planned housing facilities for the chronically homeless is on hold pending further legal review by staff attorneys for ...