News from around the Southland includes items from New Lenox, Flossmoor, Evergreen Park, Homer Glen and Palos Hills.

Bob Uecker was a famously mediocre Major League hitter who discovered that he was much more comfortable at a microphone than ...

Press, in collaboration with Lee County High School principals and their teams, is recognizing outstanding students in ...

A Wisconsin man has finally achieved his dream of becoming an Eagle Scout. It only took him about 65 years to do so.

A pair of teens have earned the highest honor a Boy Scout can achieve.Joseph Beck, 16, of Chester, and Alex Domer, 18, of ...

SCRANTON, Pa. — On Saturday evening, more than 40 Eagle Scouts from northeastern Pennsylvania were honored in Lackawanna County. The Eagle Class of 2024 was recognized in the DeNaples Center at ...

co-chair of the National Bird Initiative for the National Eagle Center, laugh while posing for photos with Angel, one of the Eagle Center's bald eagle ambassadors, as she is held by Al Cooper ...

But until Monday, it wasn’t the national bird. President Joe Biden signed a bill into law making the bald eagle the national bird, so the once-endangered species can now fly alongside other ...

Dec. 30—WABASHA, Minn. — The bald eagle is on the United States' national seal. However, until Christmas Eve, it wasn't on the books as the national bird. On Monday, Dec. 30, U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar ...

The bald eagle is associated with America as a national symbol — as American as apple pie — but it’s never been official. President Joe Biden signed a law that makes the bald eagle officially a ...