Steelers sign No. 1 pick Mendenhall The Pittsburgh Steelers signed running back Rashard Mendenhall on Friday, agreeing to a five-year contract with their first-round draft pick two days before training camp opens.
Atheist gets green light from court A Sangamon County judge on Friday gave a critic of using state money for religious purposes permission to proceed with a lawsuit aimed at blocking a $1 million state grant for a historic Chicago church.
Railroad paying back some who bought land Attorney Darrell Woolums was in his 30s when he filed his first lawsuit over what he believed was an illegal bid by the old Illinois Central Railroad to sell land granted to it by the federal government.