2 hours ago in Lifestyle

What men need to know after a major update to prostate cancer guidelines

Middle-aged men should undergo regular screening for prostate cancer, the American Cancer Society said Thursday in a major change to its guidelines.

2 hours ago in National, Trending

Is Outlook down? Widespread outage hits Microsoft email and other apps

A widespread outage hit Microsoft platforms including Outlook on Thursday, with many users encountering trouble using their email accounts and other errors across the tech giant's suite of apps.

2 hours ago in National

Jensen Huang built the company that powers AI. Now Nvidia must find a way forward without him

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned Thursday, capping a spectacular downfall for a poster boy of the artificial intelligence boom whose exit following reports of extramarital affairs now thrusts the chipmaker into an uncertain future.

3 hours ago in Crime, Education, IL State News, Local

Suspected swatting call prompts evacuation near University of Illinois auditorium

Police said they found no evidence of a credible threat and are still investigating the call.

3 hours ago in Business, Education, Health & Wellness, IL State News, National

Aetna, WashU Physicians reach deal to maintain access for Illinois retirees

The agreement follows a similar deal between Aetna and BJC HealthCare.

4 hours ago in Crime, IL State News, Local, National

Policing the police

First discretionary decertification of an officer takes place five years after the SAFE-T Act.

4 hours ago in IL State News, National, Sports

Blackhawks GM Kyle Davidson defends coach Jeff Blashill amid the team’s lackluster start

“With the maturation of young players and the players we’ve drafted and bringing in the league, we have to get through these rough times that they’re experiencing in their development in order to get to the other side,” Davidson said.

5 hours ago in Business, Food Scene, IL State News, Illinois State Fair Guide, Local

Springfield mourns two well-known men

Photographer Terry Farmer, "fry guy" Jim Cullers have passed.

5 hours ago in IL State News, Local, National, Sports

Illinois’ 4-game surge meets No. 4 UCLA’s unbeaten run in a Rose Bowl showdown

“This is a very confident football team we’re playing. They’ve had nothing but great results,” Illini coach Bret Bielema said.

5 hours ago in Business, IL State News, National

Richard Posner, prolific legal scholar and outspoken appeals court judge, dies at 87

The University of Chicago Law School, where he served as a senior lecturer and one of his sons, Eric Posner, is a professor, said Posner died Tuesday.

5 hours ago in History, IL State News, Local, National

New ALPLM acquisition details Lincoln’s dry-goods purchases

New clothes would "shed the image of the rough-and-tumble frontiersman and adopt a more formal personage."

9 hours ago in Entertainment, Music

Gram Parsons celebrated in song by Emmylou Harris, Elvis Costello on eve of his Rock Hall induction

Joy and sorrow were in harmony at a musical tribute to Gram Parsons, the country-rocker who on Saturday will enter the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 53 years after his death at age 26.

9 hours ago in Sports

NC State reaches deal for former QB Philip Rivers to become coach, AP source says

N.C. State has reached an agreement with former Wolfpack and NFL quarterback Philip Rivers to become head coach, with that deal heading to university trustees for approval, a person with knowledge of the situation said.

9 hours ago in Entertainment

Yacht captain on reality show ‘Below Deck’ arrested in Turkey after teenager dies

A participant in the U.S. reality TV show "Below Deck" has been arrested in Turkey over a fight in the resort city of Bodrum that left a 17-year-old dead, local media reported Thursday.

9 hours ago in National, Trending

Mississippi elects Democrat Scott Colom as state’s first Black US senator since Reconstruction

Democratic nominee Scott Colom defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith on Wednesday in Mississippi's closely contested U.S. Senate race after a prolonged ballot counting process, giving the state its first Black U.S. senator since post-Civil War Reconstruction.

12 hours ago in Crime, Health & Wellness, IL State News, Local

Illinois lawmakers demand improved mental healthcare in prisons

Nearly half of the IDOC population are on the mental health caseload.

1 day ago in Business, Food Scene, IL State News, Local

Cahnman, leaving Sangamon County Board, tries again with recall proposal, also introduces anti-plasticware ordinance

Cahnman believes the courts will side with recall proposals.

1 day ago in Agriculture, Business, Farm, IL State News, Local, National

Lame, suffocated and dead: The drug supersizing America’s cattle

Approved by the FDA to reduce pollution from feedlots, Experior has become a lucrative drug in the beef industry’s pursuit of bigger animals. Our investigation reveals troubling safety findings, reports of cattle deaths, and questions about industry influence on the FDA and research universities.

1 day ago in Entertainment, Music, Trending

The 2027 Coachella lineup is here: Dua Lipa, Tame Impala and SZA to headline

Three acts who are no strangers to Coachella will headline the annual festival in the California desert next April, the organizers announced Wednesday.

1 day ago in Sports

Arch Manning leads Texas into his bayou backyard for a key matchup with LSU

Arch Manning is intimately familiar with Saturday nights in "Death Valley," having been in the stands for some of LSU's biggest games in Tiger Stadium during his childhood in Louisiana.