Jersey County Board members have appointed a county treasurer to replace one who resigned amid an ongoing investigation.

JERSEYVILLE Jersey County has a new acting treasurer while an investigation concerning missing taxpayer funds continues into ...

Chief Deputy Treasurer Rebecca Strang was appointed treasurer at the April 9 Jersey County Board meeting. She replaces Katie Abbey, who resigned and is the subject of an ongoing investigation by the ...

Kathryn Mabel (Alborn) Strang went home to the Lord on Tuesday February 11, 2025. She was 96. She joined her husband (Donald Earle Strang) and daughter (Suzanne Kay Strang Hoffman) in death.

The inflation rate was +2.3% in both February and January 2025, and stood at +2.6% in December 2024. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the development of energy prices had a ...

Gilbert C. Maurer, former Hearst chief operating officer and a unique force in media and the arts and philanthropic world, died Sunday at his home in Palm Beach, Fla. He was 96. Maurer, who joined ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In the first season, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert King (Devil in the Grove) unraveled the wrongful conviction of Leo Schofield, a man serving life in prison for allegedly murdering his ...

At least half of the front-line lawyers in the elite Justice Department office that represents the Trump administration at the Supreme Court are preparing to leave or have already announced their ...

Microsoft has published a new security update, KB5002700, for Office 2016 on Windows 11 (and Windows 10). Unfortunately, it looks like KB5002700 is completely botched up because it not only breaks ...

Another institutional investor has shed a Washington, D.C.-area office building for a fraction of what it paid for it. Nuveen sold the office building at 4350 N. Fairfax Drive in Arlington ...

A 35-acre mixed-use project is taking shape in Gilbert, likely anchored by a Safeway grocery store. Thompson Thrift’s latest project, called The Gilmore, intends to break ground on April 30 ...