Benton

In 1995, the year after Gage Peach was born, his hometown of Benton was the site of a KKK rally on the square in front of the historical Franklin County Courthouse. Peach said it’s shocking that happened in his lifetime. On June 6, Peach, now of West Frankfort, along with Kiersten Owens, of Benton, both of whom are white, organized…

The National Weather Service issued a Flash Flood Watch Wednesday that remains in effect until 11 a.m. for Cook County and surrounding counties in Illinois and Indiana.

It may only be November, but several inches of snow fell in parts of the southern suburbs and into Northwest Indiana Thursday, causing spin outs and traffic delays.

Amid a Winter Weather Advisory and with snow still falling, some parts of the Chicago area had already reported accumulating snowfall of up to 3 inches Thursday morning.

A Winter Weather Advisory was issued Thursday for several counties in the southern portion of the Chicago area and in northwest Indiana, with snow expected to impact the morning commute.

Officials are investigating a mother’s complaint that her toddler’s eyebrows were waxed without permission at a daycare facility in Washington state. Alyssa Salgado said she dropped her 2-year-old daughter off Thursday at the site in Pasco that’s run by the Boys & Girls Club of Benton and Franklin counties. When she picked the child up later, a patch of skin...

Tom Brady has never lost in Minnesota, with his latest game in the land of lakes this weekend at the Super Bowl of course looming as the largest yet. Well, long before all this football success, Brady actually endured a couple of memorable failures in the state. They came during those treasured visits to his family’s farm outside the tiny...