Spring Break
Rams' future in Macomb looks bleak
According to the St. Louis Post Dispatch, the St. Louis Rams will not be returning to Macomb this summer for training camp. However, the Rams have made no official call to Western Illinois University or Macomb Mayor Mick Wisslead's office stating they will not be coming back.…
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SGA discusses strategy, guns
The Student Government Association met for the last time of the semester Tuesday night, discussing the university's recently updated strategic plan.
Guest speakers Rhonda Kline, director of Institutional Research and Planning, and Bill Brewer, Assistant Director of the Physical Plant, sought an endorsement from SGA that would help get the new plan approved.…
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Blaze victim asks for rezoning
Michael Flynn, owner of the burnt skeleton of a house at 206 W. Pierce St., pleaded Monday night with the Macomb City Council to rezone his property from R-2 to R-4 zoning.
In R-2 zoning, only two unrelated people can live in the same building while R-4 allows multiple unrelated people to occupy the same dwelling.…
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Polygamist ranch yields 31 pregnant teens
Officials say 31 teen sect girls are pregnant or had baby
1 SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Texas child welfare officials say almost 60 percent of the underage girls taken in a raid on a polygamist compound in west Texas either have children or are pregnant.
Of the 53 girls between the ages of 14 and 17 who are in state custody, 31 either have given birth or are expecting, said Child Protective Services spokesman Darrell Azar.…
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Olympics at China's front door
BEIJING (AP) - Shimmering stadiums and billions of dollars spent to remake Beijing into a modern city have been overshadowed by pro-Tibet protests, chaos on the Olympic torch relay, and an anti-Western backlash by angry Chinese who sense their coming-out party is being spoiled.…
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This day in history
1789 George Washington took office in New York as the first president of the United States.
1803 The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for 60 million francs, the equivalent of about $15 million.
1812 Louisiana became the 18th state of the Union.…
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