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Hamas militants released three male hostages being held in the Gaza Strip on Saturday while Israel released 183 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails as part of a ceasefire deal that ...

Pakistan's military says 18 troops and 12 separatist rebels have been killed in fighting in northwestern Baluchistan province. The military said troops suffered casualties when they engaged the insurg ...

A group of 50 sick and wounded Palestinian children began crossing through Gaza’s Rafah crossing into Egypt on Saturday for treatment. It is the first opening of the border since ...

Greg Jackson pulls down a rebound for Illinois in a home game against Butler on Dec. 2, 1969, at the Assembly Hall in ...

Men’s college basketball and Illini beat writer Scott Richey projects his top four seeds for each region of the NCAA ...

Centennial beat Danville in a close game two months ago, and the Vikings returned the favor in convincing fashion ...

Illinois' Ben Humrichous, second from left, shoots against Nebraska's Brice Williams, left, Juwan Gary (4) and Rollie Worster, right, during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Thursday ...

FYI: That 10-point Illinois loss to the Terrapins at the Target Center saw the ninth-seeded Illini finish one-and-done at the Big Ten tournament with 8-seed Maryland recovering from a slow start, as ...

Scott Richey covers college basketball for The News-Gazette. His email is [email protected], and you can follow him on Twitter ( @srrichey ).

As a big three of serious contenders emerges ahead of the pack in a deep conference, Illinois women’s basketball beat writer and AP Top 25 voter Joe Vozzelli ranks all 18 Big Ten teams: South Carolina ...

Berry Wallace had a choice to make in early November. It wasn’t one with a straightforward, easy answer, either. A right hand injury the freshman forward on the Il ...