Adrian Dater

Colton Lexus stayed Wednesday night at the Carpenter Hotel, with funds he said were provided by his grandmother. Where is Lexus staying Thursday night and beyond? “I don’t know right now. I’m hoping there is a shelter I can get into for the time being,” Lexus said. Lexus can no longer sleep in either of […]

For the last 34 years, women’s baseball has been known primarily for one thing: A movie. The 1992 hit film, A League of Their Own, paid homage to the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which played from 1943-54 and briefly had a team in Springfield, the Sallies. There was no baseball boom for women after […]

For the last 34 years, women’s baseball has been known primarily for one thing: A movie. The 1992 hit film, A League of Their Own, paid homage to the All-A

Keith Foulke, a hero to Boston Red Sox fans, speaks after the WPBL fired him as Boston Hunters manager.

Illinois is nicknamed the “Prairie State,” but the city of Springfield doesn’t want Wolfgang Arterberry to have an actual prairie as his front yard. “Overgrown grass and weeds throughout entire property must be mowed,” reads a letter dated July 9 to Arterberry and his wife, Gina, from Dalton Kinison, a housing inspector with the city. […]

A banana every morning, along with a glass of milk, and some pickleball in the afternoon. For Donald Taft, at least, this is his recommended elixir to older people who want to keep drinking from the fountain of youth. At 93, the longtime Springfield restaurateur is believed to be the oldest active pickleball player in […]

A banana every morning, along with a glass of milk, and some pickleball in the afternoon. For Donald Taft, at least, this is his recommended elixir to olde

Rocky Henley was already a role model in women's baseball, but her run as the WPBL's first female manager with the New York Heights has brought her two families together.

As it is to the fifth-generation farmer on the homestead, the dirt at the oval track of the Springfield Mile is sacred ground to 40-year-old Jared Mees. He’s won the annual motorcycle race in the capital city 10 times, and with it a lot of prize money. He also was married on the soil of […]

Ask a veteran hockey player about their parents, and they’ll often answer: Which ones? For players that had enough talent to play for a junior hockey team, such as the Springfield Jr. Blues of the North American Hockey League, there were their regular parents and their billet parents. New Jr. Blues defenseman Brady Anundsen, 17, […]