
University of Illinois student Andrew Smith charged with felony hate crime after leaving a noose in the elevator
A University of Illinois student who tied a noose and left in a residence hall elevator has been identified as Andrew M. Smith, who was charged with a felony hate crime on Tuesday. Smith, 19, of Normal, was arrested More...

University of Illinois will offer free tuition for some in-state students
Beginning in 2019, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will waive all tuition and fees for new in-state students with family incomes below the state median: $61,000. According to the university, all More...

Ebertfeset lineup and guests set with Guillermo del Toro attending to screen ‘Crimson Peak’
The 18th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival hosted by Chaz Ebert, also known as ‘Ebertfest,’ announced today the final slate of films in this year’s festival. Additionally, film critics Leonard Maltin, Michael More...

Illinois: College student Jabari Dean arrested after threatening to kill white students and staff
An engineering student at the University of Illinois in Chicago has been taken into federal custody after allegedly threatening to murder white students and staff at the school as well as white first responders More...

ADF sends letter defending universities’ rights to have school chaplain
Alliance Defending Freedom sent letters to 15 public universities Wednesday after they received complaints from Freedom From Religion Foundation which wrongly claimed that having football team chaplains is unconstitutional. Ridgeland More...

Bill Maher perpetuates the ‘97% scientists myth’ on global warming lie
During an interview on Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher perpetuates the “97% of scientists agree on climate change” myth which has been debunked over a year ago. While speaking with former Pennsylvania More...

Mark of the Beast: password tattoos and Google verification
Even thought the Book of Revelation warns of the “Mark of the Beast,” in 2015 the discoveries include the new “password tattoo,” which could easily become a vehicle to regulate commerce More...

Ebertfest receives $10,000 Hollywood Foreign Press Association Grant
The 17th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival has received a 2015 grant from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The festival, also known as “Ebertfest,” received the grant during a star-studded HFPA grants More...

Adult male circumcision not linked to riskier sexual behavior: Study
Men do not engage in riskier behaviors after they are circumcised, according to a study in Kenya by University of Illinois at Chicago researchers. Image/CIA Three clinical trials have shown that male circumcision More...

University of Illinois at Urbana: Mumps diagnosed in about a dozen students
In a follow-up to a story earlier this week, the McKinley Health Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign says they have diagnosed mumps in about a dozen students since their return to studies following More...

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: The latest school to experience a mumps outbreak
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s McKinley Health Center says that up to 10 people (nine students and one staff member) have been clinically diagnosed with the mumps since returning from More...

Bill Clinton tops list of expensive speakers at non-profit hospital set to layoff more workers
Bill Clinton’s $225,000 speaking fees at the Washington Hospital Center as raised some eyebrows as the non-profit hospital was “in the middle of two big rounds of layoffs” and may still be strapped More...

Roger Ebert awarded 2014 Illinois Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism
PRESS RELEASE: Roger Ebert, who was a Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic and journalist for the Chicago Sun-Times, as well as an influential and groundbreaking film critic on television, was honored posthumously More...

Illinois college student, Anna Bachman, poses for photo on San Diego cliff, falls to her death
A grad student from Illinois fell to her death while on vacation in California as she was posing for a picture. Anna Bachman, age 25, a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was vacationing More...

Motorola announces password tattoo or ‘small capsule’ for Google authentication
Motorola has announced big plans for replacing your online and device passwords that include taking a pill every morning and wearing a tattoo on your arm. The two experimental prototypes were showcased during the More...

HAART appears to protect against heart damage: NIH
For children who have had HIV-1 infection since birth, the combination drug therapies now used to treat HIV appear to protect against the heart damage seen before combination therapies were available, according More...

Cowboys’ Josh Brent arrested in drunk driving case, charged with manslaughter
Dallas Cowboys nose tackle Josh Brent (Joshua Price-Brent on the police report) has been arrested and charged with intoxication manslaughter stemming from a late night crash that resulted in the death of a teammate. CBS More...