Chalkbeat reports that teachers who share the specific racial or ethnic background of their students may be better able to ...

Every week, The Post runs a collection of letters of readers’ grievances — pointing out grammatical mistakes, missing ...

The tribe would also support the names Spirit Mountain (which translates from another indigenous name for the buttes), Marysville Buttes, Sacred Mountain or Sacred Buttes, the latter of which was ...

A Lexington man has been charged with two counts of sexual assault of a child stemming from incidents from 2012 to 2019. Calvin E. Shaw, 36, is charged with two counts of first-degree sexual ...

Radiocarbon testing revealed a stunning fact about the 10,000-year-old mummy of a middle-aged man who was wrapped in a rabbit ...

Pope Francis has died at age 88. Bells tolled in churches from his native Argentina to the Philippines and across Rome as ...

"Dark Winds" director Erica Tremblay was inspired by David Lynch and anime to depict Joe Leaphorn's hallucinations and ...

Democratic State Rep. Maurice West, left, from Rockford filed the Native American imagery bill. Republican state Rep. Bill Hauter, right, from Morton voted against it. The Illinois House has passed ...

A Watervliet man was arrested following an investigation ... Kennedy was charged with felony first-degree Rape. Kennedy was arraigned in Watervliet City Court, where he was initially remanded ...

This isn't the first year the bill's main sponsor, Rep. Maurice West, D-Rockford, has tried to pass the Native mascot ban. When West tried in 2020, members of the Native American Chamber of ...

“We have to be pretty quiet because the beaver family is inside this lodge right now,” Alves said in a video shared by the agency Tuesday. It's where they spend the majority of the winter ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Kirkwood women's basketball star Jenna Twedt and Kaliyah Sain have been named NJCAA Division II First Team All-Americans following standout sophomore seasons. Twedt led the ...