Joseph: Broncos aren't grading their quarterbacks just yet

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) Heading into OTAs, Denver Broncos first-year coach Vance Joseph declared that every period of every practice would be graded. Yet, when it comes to his quarterback competition , it’s still time to teach, not

Honoring Galesburg’s “Rosie the Riveter”

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More than a week after the Galesburg VFW celebrated her 99th birthday, Galesburg’s Julia Mattocks was honored Tuesday by Rep. Cheri Bustos with a certificate marking her inclusion in the Congressional Record.  Mattocks — who helped do

Bipartisan opposition to closing of Peoria ag facility

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Rep. Cheri Bustos was in Galesburg Tuesday afternoon, and while in town, she spoke with reporters including Will Stevenson of Galesburg’s Evening News about the proposed federal budget cuts which would see an agricultural facility in Peoria

City makes plans to relocate war memorial

DANVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Officials of a city in eastern Illinois are trying to move, clean and more prominently display a World War I memorial that’s nearly a century old.

Wanda L. Makeever

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Wanda L. Makeever, 88, of Galesburg, died at 12:04 a.m. Friday, May 26, 2017 at Galesburg Cottage Hospital. She was born November 19, 1928 in Orange City, Iowa, the daughter of Rev. Llewellyn F. and Marjorie Faye

Karen J. Turney

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Karen Joan Turney, 77, of Galesburg, died at 3:20 p.m. Saturday, May 27, 2017 in Rosewood Care Center. She was born December 19, 1939, in Elmwood, Illinois, the daughter of Edward John and Helen Hope (Zink) Kleen.

Lester O. Combs

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Lester Oliver Combs, 89 of rural Maquon, passed away at 4:20 p.m. Saturday, May 27, 2017 at Seminary Manor in Galesburg, with his family at his side. He was born March 28, 1928 on the family home