Illinois Public Media News

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that unless police have a warrant, they generally cannot search data on a cellphone seized from someone who has been arrested.

The University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) says one of its students is missing and feared drowned off the coast of Brazil, where he was taking part in a study-abroad program.

Aereo, the company that lets subscribers watch TV stations' video that it routes onto the Internet, violates U.S. copyright law, the Supreme Court has ruled. The court's 6-3 decision reverses a lower court ruling on what has been a hotly contested issue.

A 26-year old man is dead after a shooting on the city's north side, the second such incident in a span of 24 hours. 

The Illinois Teachers' Retirement System says it expects a lower return on its pension investments in the next year.

Veteran Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran squeaked by challenger Chris McDaniel Tuesday in a bitterly contested Republican runoff that likely represented the Tea Party's best remaining chance to take down a longtime incumbent.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the University of Illinois Extension. The extension began in 1914 when Congress passed the Smith-Lever Act that established extension services at the nation’s land-grant universities.

A big part of the Extension’s focus has been on agricultural outreach and support. There were also extension programs on home economics and food preservation that were designed to help rural families. However, the U of I Extension has shifted its focus over the last century to meet the needs of a diverse population. 

Illinois Public Media’s Sean Powers recently talked about some of those changes with U of I Extension Director George Czapar.

Administrators of all 14 Big Ten schools have asked the NCAA to implement reforms to college athletics, while opposing unions or compensation for college athletes.

"Star Wars'' creator George Lucas has selected Chicago to build his museum of art and movie memorabilia. 

Danville Police say there’s been an arrest in connection with last Friday’s early morning shooting in the first block of Kentucky Street that injured three people sitting on a porch, one of them a 16-year-old boy. And Champaign Police are investigating a whooting on West White Street.