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UNDATED (AP) - Fifth-ranked Texas wasn't able to get a victory for their quarantined head coach. Austin Reaves scored 23 points and 24th-ranked Oklahoma earned its fourth straight win by holding off t...

UNDATED (AP) - The Boston Bruins wasted a 2-0 lead before earning their third straight win. Craig Smith scored with 11 seconds showing on the clock in overtime to give the Bruins a 3-2 win over the Pe...

International Wealth Mentality Month Gear your thinking toward wealth. Provided by MidAmerica Financial Resources January is International Wealth Mentality Month, a time to remind people to make arran...

The Illinois Department of Public Health on Tuesday reported 3,667 additional cases and 87 COVID-19 related deaths. The deaths included a male in his 70s in Clay County and a female in her 60s in Jeff...

Home in 3300 block of Richview Road in rural Centralia that was the scene of Friday night drug bust. Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department photo. Brandon Rogozinsky The Mt. Vernon Police Departm...

Sherylyn Marie (Rhinehart) Jeffries went home to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on January 23, 2021 after battling Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis for 8 years. Sherylyn was born in St. Louis, ...

The Centralia City Council has approved its eighth Class E liquor license for a restaurant in the Jolliff Bridge Road strip mall. City Manager Lowell Crow says the request is being made by Yamatos, wh...

The Centralia City Council has decided not to suspend service for those overdue on small utility bills through at least the end of March. Councilman David Sauer spoke for the moratorium. “We sho...

Kaskaskia College President George Evans wants to correct some slippage in student satisfaction scores which he says appears to be the result of COVID- 19. However, overall students appear extremely h...

Glenda L. Moore, 74, of Salem, Illinois passed away January 25, 2021 at Salem Township Hospital with her daughter near her. She was a homemaker. She also assisted her husband in Moore’s Painting...