MADISON, Wis. (WSAW) - The Edgar Wildcats’ third straight season at state will end with a silver ball. Edgar fell to Darlington 42-18 in the D6 state title game on Thursday, making Edgar the state ...

His mother, Frances Westcott, was a model with the Powers Agency, and his father, Edgar Bergen, was an actor and a famous ventriloquist whose puppet was named Charly McCarthy. At the age of 6, she ...

“Personally,” said Edgar Bergen, “I never thought entertainment so damn important, but I changed my mind after we toured the Army posts in Alaska.” Like Al Jolson before him, he declared the boys up ...

HARVARD, Neb. (KOLN) - During a visit to the historic town of Harvard, we got a chance to learn more about a former jail that seems to have a unique connection to Hollywood. “The old Harvard jail is ...

Former UFC champion Frankie Edgar’s return from retirement has ended before the weigh-in. Edgar, 43, was scheduled to fight Elmwood Park police officer Jimmie Rivera in the Bare Knuckle Fighting ...

SPRINGFIELD — The late former Gov. Jim Edgar was memorialized Saturday as a man whose compassion, integrity, and honesty showed he put people above politics and led Illinois as a model of what ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar has died at the age of 79 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his family announced Sunday. He served as the state's governor from 1991 to 1999.

CHICAGO (WGN) — Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar died Sunday at the age of 79, according to multiple sources. Edgar, who served as Illinois’ 38 th governor from 1991 to 1999, was widely regarded as a ...

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Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar has died at the age of 79. Edgar, who served two terms as Illinois’ governor in the 1990s, announced that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer earlier this year.

Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, a moderate Republican who led the state from 1991 to 1999, died Sunday in a Springfield hospital. Edgar died from complications of his treatment for pancreatic cancer.