Mike Vrabel's Patriots coaching staff continues to take shape. The latest hire is a college coach from Illinois

Minnijean Brown-Trickey was one of nine Black teenagers who enrolled at an all-white school following the passage of Brown vs. Board of Education.

The New England Patriots are still filling out their coaching staff under new head coach Mike Vrabel after just one year with Jerod Mayo in the role. According to MassLive's Mark Daniels, the Patriots are hiring Illinois assistant defensive backs coach Kevin Richardson II for a position on Vrabel's staff.

Mercy operates hospitals and clinics in Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, with more than 50,000 workers across its footprint.

Harley, 42, has spent the last four seasons as the Arkansas State assistant head coach and defensive coordinator, but according to Matt Zenitz of 247Sports, he’s expected to be hired as the Northern Illinois defensive coordinator. It was a tough season ...

A settlement has been reached in the lawsuit involving an Arkansas-based couple and stars of HGTV’s “Fixer to Fabulous” just days before the parties were set to go to trial.

ACC schedules in full are revealed Monday on ACC Network, but the opponents are known. This is a doozy for Mike Norvell's team. Florida State opens against Alabama, the first of four games against opponents ranked inside the top 20 of 247Sports rankings. One of the only positives for the Seminoles is not having to deal with 2024 ACC runner-up SMU.

In a wide-ranging interview on Sunday, Vice President JD Vance defended a variety of plans set in motion by President Trump during the first week of his term, including the beginnings of a promised crackdown on migrants living in the United States and an effort to supercharge oil and gas production.

Top Trump administration officials, including 'border czar' Tom Homan and the acting deputy attorney general, visited Chicago on Sunday.

Campbell at Stony Brook, 1 p.m. Elon at Drexel, 1 p.m. Loyola Chicago at Rhode Island, 1 p.m. NC A&T at Hofstra, 1 p.m. Navy at Army, 1 p.m. Rutgers at Penn St., 1 p.m.

BOTTOM LINE: Little Rock takes on Eastern Illinois at Hyland Arena in Saint Charles, Missouri. The Trojans have a 6-5 record against non-conference oppponents. Little Rock is 2-0 in one-possession games.

The feds also allege Madigan both solicited bribes from and offered bribes to powerful Chicago Ald. Danny Solis’ in an effort to recruit more real estate developers as clients to his law firm. That scheme ran from 2017 until Solis was outed as an FBI cooperator by the Chicago Sun-Times in 2019, the feds allege.