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Bad Money Habits to Break Behaviors worth changing. Provided by MidAmerica Financial Resources Do bad money habits constrain your financial progress? Many people fall into the same financial behavior ...

The Centralia Police Department is seeing a disturbing increase in stolen vehicle reports since the start of the year. Police Chief Greg Dodson says they have received 12 reports so far this year comp...

The Marion County Health Department is reporting three new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday. None were students or long term care residents. All three are believed to be community spread. There are now 4...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A new monthly survey of bankers suggests the economy is slowly improving in rural parts of 10 Plains and Western states including Illinois, but employment remains below the level it...

A city commission is reviewing the fate of Abraham Lincoln statues in Chicago. No decision has been made about removing the statutes, but it is noteworthy that in the biggest city in the "Land of Linc...

Believe It or DON'T On this day in 1885, Mark Twain published the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” in the US. Believe It or DON'T On this day in 2001, American stock-car racer Dale Earnhar...

Erik Kock, 77, of Centralia, passed away Thursday, January 28, 2021 at his home. Per Erik's wishes, cremation rites were accorded and no public services will be held. The Sutherland-Garnier Funeral Ho...

Glen Edwan Butts, age 90, of St. Peter, Illinois passed away at 5:22 a.m. Thursday, February 18, 2021 at Willowbrook Memory Support Residences of Effingham. He was a member of the St. Peter American L...

Goldie Ruth Purdue, 93, of Salem, passed away Sunday, February 14, 2021 at the Salem Township Hospital in Salem. Goldie was of the Christian faith. She previously worked at Western Electric, A.M.F. Ro...

Khaleem Jones, 35, of Phoenix, Arizona, passed away, Wednesday, February 10, 2021 at Deaconess Midtown Hospital in Evansville, Indiana. Khaleem graduated from Independence High School and some college...