Life isn't fair, never has been, and I'm sure as long as I'm alive it never will be. Whether it's my life or someone else's -- life has a certain way of punching people in the gut when they

East Moline Elks Lodge 1531 and Marion Temple 1186 members hope a Sept. 11 benefit will get them several steps closer to being able to call their building a home.

"We'd love to be in there before Christmas," Ethelene

Calling all women of the American Legion Auxiliary

The Green Rock/Colona American Legion Auxiliary will host 2010-2011 Department of Illinois Auxiliary President Pam Ray from Urbana, along with her officers, on Sunday at the Legion, 312 Broadway St., Colona.

Moline 6, Geneseo 3

GENESEO -- In soccer, you can, but shouldn't, take a six-goal lead for granted.

The Moline boys' soccer team played perhaps its best 60 minutes of the season on Tuesday, but a sour finish

EDGINGTON -- The Sherrard and Rockridge volleyball teams began a new era Tuesday night when the former Olympic Conference rivals tangled to open up their West Central Conference schedules.

Before a good-sized crowd at Rockridge High School that included

QUINCY — Sam Fournier had no intention of coming off the service line.

The Moline volleyball team's senior outside hitter rattled off seven consecutive service points late in the first game at Quincy High School on Tuesday night.

A last-second field goal into the wind, which bounced over the cross-bar last weekend, allowed Rock Island to share the second spot in this week's Class 6A state football rankings from the Illinois Associated Press.

Normal booted intercity rival

It's an old saying that patience is a virtue. Riverdale High School senior golf standout Gage DeCook has applied that to his game this season.

"I don't get flustered as much after a bad shot,'' he said of the

CHICAGO (AP) — Good intentions won't keep the mentally ill safe and alive, a tearful mother told a federal judge Tuesday at a hearing concerning how Illinois houses and cares for thousands of Medicaid recipients.

'We all worry about

CHICAGO (AP) — Signs of Asian carp in Chicago waterways mean there's a great risk the invasive fish could slip into Lake Michigan at any time, a witness said Tuesday in the first full day of testimony in a five-state

HEYWORTH, Ill. (AP) — An explosion at a grain elevator in the central Illinois town of Heyworth resulted in injuries to three people.

Two of the those injured Tuesday worked in the Tate & Lyle of Decatur

SPRINGFIELD — Few farmers in the huge swath of Illinois qualified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as disaster areas may cash in on the low interest loans.

The USDA has designated 55 counties as disaster areas, with another

EASTMOLINE-- Aldermen on Tuesday voted to allow up to 10 city employees to be laid off.

Mayor John Thodos said aldermen voted after about an hour-and-a-half of discussion during closed session. Cutting expenses is necessary, he said, because of

SILVIS-- Village officials think local volunteers deserve a little praise.

At Tuesday night's meeting, Ald. Caryn Unsicker, 4th Ward, called a public services meeting for 3:30 p.m. Sept. 13 to discuss recognizing Scout Troop 113 for their trash collection

GENESEO -- City officials will have a special meeting Thursday to discuss the use of city equipment by private firms.

Ald. Ed Deener, 1st Ward, who chairs Geneseo's public works board, said Tuesday that Ald. Josh Pierce, 4th Ward,

ANDOVER - The village needs more of the building it leases from the American Legion Post No. 465.

While village meetings are held in the basement, the village office is housed upstairs in an area the size of a

MOLINE — Officials project a growing deficit over the next five years could add up to $24 million if the city takes no action.

Finance director Kathy Carr on Tuesday gave aldermen the city's five-year financial forecast, noting

MOLINE -- Black Hawk College trustees took no action Tuesday night after a two-hour closed session meeting.

Trustees began the special meeting at 6 p.m. and adjourned at 8 p.m. with no action taken. Board president Steve Ballard

Today is the last day to register for the "Stand Strong! Stop the Bullying" class at Black Hawk College.

The class is open to students in third through fifth grade. Class meets from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Thursdays

ROCK ISLAND -- In his first state of the schools address, superintendent Mike Oberhaus highlighted the ups and downs of the Rock Island-Milan School District and pointed to ways the community can lend a hand.

Tuesday marked the