Springfield Metro News

One consistent truth in the music business: In spite of the heartfelt aspiration and keen ambition felt by the people who trudge it, the path to making music for a living is littered with lost dreams, dashed ...

Benny E. Topps, 54, became Decatur's fifth murder victim at 10:05 a.m. Wednesday, when he was shot multiple times while standing in the 900 block of North Van Dyke Street.

Authorities this morning released the name of the Springfield boy who died Monday when a tree limb fell on him during a violent storm at a campground in the Quad Cities area.

The severe weather that has plagued much of the country this summer claimed the life of a 4-year-old Springfield boy Monday morning when a tree branch fell on the tent he and some of his family were sleeping in ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - State officials say a they've started a new Web site to help residents better appreciate native Illinois wildlife.

Authorities say a four-year-old Springfield boy died after a tree limb fell on a tent as he lay sleeping.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A single player has won the $4.75 million jackpot from the latest drawing of the Illinois State Lottery's Lotto game.

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill., is a finalist to receive a $20 million collection of Lincoln artifacts.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Police in Springfield are investigating a vandalism spree in which at least 84 cars and trucks had their windows shot out with BB guns.

SPRINGFIELD The Illinois House voted Wednesday to reverse about $480 million in budget cuts imposed by Gov.

Wal-Mart aims to open Springfield's third supercenter at a west-side location in 2010, though a piece of the proposed site remains tied up in court.

The presidential field has been paired from fifteen-plus candidates to just two.

The nation's largest retail chain opened the doors of its newest Springfield location to employees and special guests Monday night.

The Justice Department's former top criminal prosecutor says the government's terror watch list likely has caused thousands of innocent Americans to be questioned, searched or otherwise hassled.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - It is only coincidence that on the day Springfield gasoline prices hit a record of nearly $4.20 a gallon, a U.S. Senate appropriations committee approved a record $1.55 billion to run Amtrak ...

Not all Illinois students can learn about recycling from what they see in school.

Despite high gas prices and the general malaise of the economy, downtown Springfield merchants are keeping their collective heads above water.

Gov. Rod Blagojevich insists his administration will do everything possible to limit the pain for employees affected by moving more than 100 state jobs from Springfield to southern Illinois.

An appellate court has ordered a hearing to consider potential new evidence in the case of murder victim Karyn Slover, whose ex-husband and former in-laws are in prison for the killing.

A former Naperville man has been sentenced to three years in prison for possession of child pornography -- a term that will be served concurrent to his five-year federal prison stay for a similar crime.