At the end of last year, a two-year-old Chicago girl died after being attacked by a dog. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is conducting an investigation into the death of Jah’niyah White. White was reportedly left unattended while staying at her grandfather’s residence on the 3300 block of East 91st Street. The Cook… Read More

The National Football League agreed on Thursday, August 29 to settle with former and current football players $765 million as compensation for the brain-related injuries suffered by the players. In the brain-injury lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania Eastern District by around 4,500 former NFL players, led by Philadelphia Eagles and New… Read More

More than thirty people were sent to the hospital and one individual was killed after a Megabus collided with a bridge pillar on an interstate near Litchfield on Thursday. It is unknown at this time what caused the bus to crash into the support beam, but passengers stated that there was a loud ‘boom’ before the… Read More

A television news anchor is currently recovering from injuries sustained when she was bitten in the face by an 85-pound Argentine Mastiff on air. The incident occurred when the anchor was doing a news segment on the dog and his owner. The dog owner, a local firefighter, rescued the dog from an icy lake after… Read More

The American Academy of Pediatrics and doctors are beginning a campaign to raise awareness of  the dangers of dog bites. During National Dog Bite Prevention Week,  doctors pointed out that nearly 5 million people suffer from dog bites every year, 600,000 of these require medical attention. Tips were given to parents in order to help… Read More

Doctors and researchers are conducting a study in Illinois in order to see if a cooling effect can help people who have suffered from brain injuries. The 12-month study is being done by researchers at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and is taking place in Urbana. An issue that arises when cooling the… Read More

The Champaign police department is currently investigating an accident that involved a 7th-grade pedestrian and a vehicle. According to officials, the accident occurred at 3:03 p.m. on Monday when the student entered the intersection of Spring Avenue and Prairie Street around a stopped middle school bus and was struck by a Jeep Cherokee. Police are… Read More

The Illinois High School Associations has a new rule that is designed to protect young athletes who suffer a concussion during a sporting event. The new rule states that if a player is suspected of having a head injury, the player must be pulled from the game and can only return if a medical professional… Read More

A plane that took off from Illinois and was en route to Austin, Texas crashed and burned killing both men inside. The aircraft went down around 12:30 p.m. in Arkansas as the 62-year-old father and his 32-year-old son were leaving Danville and heading to Austin. The father is a flight instructor in California and the… Read More

A 17-year old girl from Chicago was struck and killed by a van driven by an 86-year old Illinois man on Wednesday. The teen was on a biking trip through southern Illinois when the van apparently crossed the center line and struck the teen and her friends. Two others were injured in the accident and… Read More