Four kindergarten-age children were sent to area hospitals Monday afternoon when the school bus they were riding in left the road and landed in a ditch.
A metro-east man was killed Sunday night after his motorcycle skidded off a Montgomery County roadway and was struck by another motorcycle driver.
There has been another rollover in the grand prize for the Illinois State Lottery's Lotto game - to $7.75 million.
A teacher at a Kansas City charter school has been suspended after video of his public school students chanting praise of Barack Obama was posted on YouTube.
I know it is German-American Week in Belleville because I attended the ceremony Monday where Mayor Mark Eckert signed the proclamation making it so.
Wall Street headed to a shaky start Tuesday after a huge sell-off the previous session, with investors waiting to see if central banks would try to alleviate the ongoing turmoil in the credit markets by cutting interest rates.
A Thai official says Deputy Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh has tendered his resignation to take responsibility for violent clashes outside Parliament between police and protesters.