It’s true that dust storms of the size that engulfed I-55 are more common in drier parts of the country. A study last month in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society tracked 232 deaths ...

One person was killed and at least 22 injured in a mass shooting near Willowbrook in southeast DuPage County early Sunday morning, authorities said. Fire officials received calls reporting gunshot ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Dust storms are no longer considered rare and confined to any particular region or regions. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Air Resources Laboratory issued a report ...

Drivers are speaking out following fatal crashes due to a dangerous dust storm in central Illinois late Monday morning, which led to the deaths of at least six people. "You couldn’t even see," Evan ...

Police on Tuesday announced that a stretch of Interstate 55 in south central Illinois where six people were killed in a 72-vehicle pile-up one day earlier has been closed once again, this time as a ...

An Illinois dust storm led to a horrific and deadly crash involving up to 90 cars on a highly trafficked interstate Monday, leaving multiple dead and more than 30 others injured. Illinois State Police ...

SANGAMON COUNTY, Ill. -- Over 30 people were injured and at least six are dead after a number of crashes during a dust storm on Interstate 55 downstate Monday, officials said. At least 30 commercial ...

A dust storm that cut visibility to near zero on Monday triggered a series of chain-reaction crashes involving dozens of vehicles on an Illinois highway, killing six people and injuring at least two ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A milling company has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges that employees at a Wisconsin corn plant falsified records in the years leading up to a fatal corn dust explosion.

To the untrained eye, Richard Lyons’ farm looks messy. There are no uniform rows of green against a bare canvas of brown soil. Instead, soybean sprouts, 6 inches tall, spring up through patches of ...