Video: Pantagraph on Par: Weibring Golf Club at ISU
By: Joel Fellers
Pantagraph on Par is a series highlighting the toughest golf holes in the area. In this installment, Pantagraph reporter Jim Benson takes on No. 16 at Illinois State University's Weibring Golf Club alongside club professional Laura Provost.
President Barack Obama traveled to the hometown of a cancer victim who wrote the president that she gave up her health insurance after the cost rose to $8,500 a year. Obama cited that letter to illustrate the urgency of the health care reform. (March 15)
Peter Graves, star of the television series "Mission Impossible" and the "Airplane" films, is dead at the age of 83. His publicist says he died at his home in Los Angeles. (March 14)
Three people with ties to the American consulate were killed in a drug-plagued Mexican city, including a U.S. couple shot to death with their baby in their back seat, officials said Sunday. (March 14)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife was hospitalized with a broken back and neck Thursday after a tractor-trailer truck slammed into the back of the minivan in which she and their daughter were riding on an highway in suburban Virginia (March 12)
Actor Corey Haim has been found dead at age 38. He became a teen heartthrob with the 1987 film "The Lost Boys," but later in life was hampered by substance abuse problems. (March. 10)
A California highway police officer helped slow a runaway Toyota Prius from 94 mph to a safe stop on Monday after the car's accelerator became stuck on a freeway near San Diego, authorities said. (March 9)
Congressman Parker Griffith, who switched from the Democrats to the Republican party, says the current health care bill is too costly and needs to be scrapped and re-written. (March 6)
President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to give health care reform an up or down vote and says now is not the time to start over with new legislation on the matter. (March 6)