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UNDATED (AP) - A federal judge in Florida has ordered the destruction of video that allegedly shows New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft paying for massage parlor sex. The South Florida Sun Sentine...

UNDATED (AP) - Gonzaga, Baylor and Villanova remain atop The Associated Press men's college basketball poll. The latest Top 25 also saw ninth-ranked Alabama climb to its highest ranking in 14 years. G...

The Marion County Health Department is reporting the death of a man in his 60s who was positive for COVID-19 at the time of his death. The death is the 107th in the county related to the pandemic. Hea...

The Illinois Department of Public Health and the Chicago Department of Public Health has announced eight additional Illinois cases of the coronavirus disease variant first identified in the United Kin...

CHICAGO (AP) - Two brothers in their 60s have described what they say was years of sexual abuse by a firebrand priest who gained fame speaking out on national politics and for taking on drug dealers i...

Glendall Eugene “Gene” Davis, 78, of Mt. Vernon, passed away at 8:57 p.m. Sunday, January 24, 2021, at his home in Mt. Vernon. Mr. Davis graduated from Mt. Vernon Township High School in 1...

Kimberly Kaye Bruce, 55, of Mount Vernon, Illinois, passed away on January 24, 2021 at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. Mrs. Bruce loved her family dearly. She enjoyed being a stay at ho...

Kay Frances (Hayes) Schubert, 78, of Centralia, passed away Friday, January 22, 2021 at SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital in Centralia. Kay worked at Wonder Bread Company for 12 years until her ret...

Larry Stoafer, 77, of Peoria, passed away Friday, January 22, 2021 at his home. Larry served in the U.S. Army. He was a 35 year member of the Fraternal Lodge of the Eagles # 265 in Peoria. Larry enjoy...

The Centralia Grade School Board’s building committee is looking at a $1 to $1.5-million addition of a multipurpose room to the northeast side of Schiller Grade School. Superintendent Craig Clar...