The accelerator tunnel of the Tevatron. Scientists have been analysing a 'bump' in the smasher's data that could reveal a new force of nature. Data from a major U.S. atom smasher may have revealed a new elementary particle, or even a new force of nature like gravity or magnetism, a lab has told AFP. The findings could offer clues to the persistent riddle of mass and how objects obtain it... 

Jean-Marie Vianney Mudahinyuka, in the custody of Rwandan officers. A man going by the name of Thierry Rugamba reportedly immigrated to the United States in 2000, as a victim of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He settled in Bolingbrook, Illinois, where he worked at an African grocery. But all was not as it seemed with Thierry Rugamba, according to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. In 2004, he was identified... 

Reps. Dan Brady, right, R-Bloomington, and Roger Eddy, R-Hutsonville confer on the House floor during a session at the state Capitol in Springfield, Ill. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn defended a massive increase in state income taxes passed by lawmakers Wednesday and promised to quickly sign the measure to help heal the state’s ailing finances. Lawmakers worked overnight to pass the increase to raise... 

National numbers down due to job shortage. A new report says Illinois’ illegal immigrant population has remained stable in the midst of the recession. The land of Lincoln bucks the national trend, which shows illegal immigrants declining over the last two years as jobs dwindled, according to a study released Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center. Illinois ranked No. 5 with an estimated 525,000... 

A most intriguing report prepared by the Foreign Military Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff (GRU) on the killing of one of their “operatives” posted at a United States space weapon laboratory states that the death of Doctor-Scientist Maria Beloyvan last week was “directly attributed” to knowledge she had gained about the Americans “inter-dimensional space communication”... 

Nadine Sweeney shows her support during a Tea Party rally at the Daley Plaza on Thursday. Sally Sinacore, a retired paralegal from Palatine, came to the Daley Plaza Tea Party rally wrapped in an American flag that had draped the coffin of her father, a World War II veteran. “I’m here because I want us to become fiscally more conservative. We cannot take this heavy spending any longer,”... 

Dr. Henry T. Sampson and Dr. George H. Miley (both pictured at right), are two engineering professor teaching in Illinois. Though it looks like Sampson has since retired from teaching and now writes books on the history of blacks in theater and movies. In 1971 they jointly obtained a patent for their own version of a “Gamma Electric Cell” they designed to convert gamma rays into electrical output. Sampson...