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UNDATED (AP) - St. Louis Blues defenseman Carl Gunnarsson is out for the rest of the NHL season with a right knee injury. Gunnarsson injured the knee when he got tangled up with Kings forward Gabe Vil...

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The Illinois Department of Public Health is reporting the death of a Marion County man in his 70s from COVID-19 related symptoms. The death is one of 27 being reported statewide on Tuesday and is the ...

Salem Police have arrested a 33-year-old Salem man for possession of methamphetamine and possession of a controlled substance. Damon Deboer of Tully Lane was taken into custody following an early Tues...

Fire heavily damaged the Charles and Linda Runyon home at 339 Sanders in Wamac Monday night. Photo by Brady Toennies. A Wamac family was left homeless by a fire that destroyed their home Monday night....

Lowell Dean "Grandpa" Linder, age 94 of Salem, passed away on February 22, 2021, at Salem Township Hospital. Lowell started working in the Salem Oil Fields at the age of 17, working as a driller for 4...

Robert “Bob” Wayne Toler, 69, of Mount Vernon, Illinois, passed away at 2:30 am February 21, 2021 at Nature Trail Health Care in Mount Vernon. Bob loved his family at Victory Christian Cen...

Deborah Lynn Rudd, 67, of Mount Vernon, Illinois, passed away at 3:24 pm February 13, 2021 at SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital in Mount Vernon, Illinois. Ms. Rudd worked as a private home care aid a...

Helen McMillan Pace, 103, passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, on Saturday, Feb 20, 2021 in Aurora, IL where she had lived with her daughter, Kerry, since 2011. Helen was a former resident of...

Salem’s longtime Public Works Director John Pruden has announced his retirement. He’s to be replaced by Assistant Public Works Director Annette Brushwitz. City Manager Rex Barbee told the ...