Morton News

Eight-white Peoria School teachers are suing District 150, claiming discrimination by African-American administrators.

Otis was born an incarnate of Abraham Lincoln in the capital of IL . After getting sick of how ghetto it was there, he thought he could find his Cinderella in a pumpkin in Morton, IL .

If visions of sugar plum fairies are dancing in your head, it must be the holiday season, awash with Nutcrackers, "Christmas Carol" productions, and stockings full of holiday music concerts.

In 2009, an endangered species? Not long before Thanksgiving, the media started reporting that there was a nationwide shortage of canned pumpkin puree.

Norm Durflinger of Morton, Il. has been promoted from deputy administrator to interim Administrator for the next 180 days.

No pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving? That's the "harsh reality" facing families all over the United States.

Nestle Baking announced this week that it expects a shortage of Libby's Pumpkin on store shelves as the country enters the holiday season.

Paul Bakus in a ruined pumpkin patch. Photo: Wonk Room Our increasingly extreme climate is devastating American agriculture.

The holidays may not be so sweet this year. Nestle - which sells nearly all the canned pumpkin in the U.S. - says poor weather hurt its harvest, creating a potential shortage of its Libby's pumpkin pie products through the holidays.

A Wyoming man has died after an industrial accident on Friday. The Peoria County Coroner says 48-year old Carl Ziemer died Friday evening at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center after an accident at G&D Transportation in Morton.

Fans of pumpkin pie may be in for a big disappointment at this year's Thanksgiving dinner.

Black Friday may have to wait for the real retail scramble - there is a pumpkin pie shortage! Blame it on the rain.

Close November 19, 2009, 2:42 PM ET By Kelly Evans It's every baker's worst holiday fear: you head to the grocery store for ingredients to whip up your famous pumpkin pie - but there is no pumpkin left on the shelves.

In a statement to customers this week, Nestle said heavy rains made it nearly impossible to pick its pumpkins during this year's harvest.

If you don't act fast, you could be eating apple pie instead of pumpkin for Thanksgiving dinner.

That homemade Thanks-giving meal and post-holiday favorite, the pumpkin pie, might be in short supply this year.

When word began to leak in grocery stores of the canned pumpkin shortage plaguing this holiday season, baking enthusiasts hoped the chatter was a joke.

The city of Evanston invites residents to a community budget workshop at 7 p.m. Nov.

The city of Evanston will kick off its 2010-11 budget process with an overview/educational workshop from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov.

By McClatchy-Tribune and Reporter StaffFor the second year in a row, fans of pumpkin pie may look to their grocery store shelves and see only emptiness where there should be cans of pumpkin pie mix.There's a shortage.Blame bad weather in the single village that's home to the single company controlling 80 to 90 percent of the nation's pumpkin pie ...