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UNDATED (AP) - The Florida Panthers are in a funk right now after tying the best 11-game start in NHL history. The Panthers absorbed their third straight regulation loss as Jonathan Quick turned back ...

Distracted America Consumer habits are changing as we spend more time at home. Provided by MidAmerica Financial Resources   Over the last year, many have seen their lives impacted by the COVID-19...

The 200th birthday of Marion County and Salem is just over a year away on January 24th,2023 and local historians hoped the Bicentennial can be marked by several special events. Salem Historical Commis...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A new monthly survey of bankers in rural parts of 10 Plains and Western states including Illinois shows the economy remains strong in the region, but some bankers said they are worr...

Believe It or DON'T On this day in 1773, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians boarded three British tea ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor. It would later bec...

Wednesday marked the one year anniversary of the Covid-19 vaccine being available in Illinois. More than 18 million doses have been administered in Illinois over the past year, and 63% of all state re...

The South Central School District Board of Education decided after a lengthy discussion Wednesday night to continue to wear masks as mandated by the State Board of Education. Superintendent Kerry Herd...

The strong winds Wednesday afternoon and evening are blamed on bringing down two power lines. A Citation Oil Company power line that fell off the Hoots Chapel Road a half mile south of Red Stripe Road...

A 26-year-old Salem man was arrested by Salem Police Wednesday morning after he had called them to his residence to report his pickup truck had been burglarized. Dalton Allen of the 700 block of West ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - An East St. Louis, Illinois, man has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for killing a man during an attempted carjacking in St. Louis in 2019. Demario Hunter pleaded guilty ...