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The IHSA State Tennis Tournament opens up today in the Chicago area. The Salem team of Senior Juan Diez and junior Jarett Rushing will open up at Hoffman Estates against Declan Wagner and Frank Schule...

The Mount Vernon Lady Rams season came to a heartbreaking end in the Salem 3a Regional semifinal as they fell to Freeburg on a late score 1-0. Freeburg scored the go-ahead run in the top of the sixth....

The Salem Wildcats season officially starts over today as they will host Mattoon in the opening round of the Class 3a Salem Regional. The Wildcats will be the visitors on the scoreboard as they are th...

Deacon Snow hit a ball off the left field wall and Centralia, who trailed the entire game, came all the way back to beat Mt Vernon 6-4 and advances to the finals of the Centralia 3a Regional. This cam...

Deacon Snow hit a ball off the left field wall and Centralia, who trailed the entire game, came all the way back to beat Mt Vernon 6-4 and advances to the finals of the Centralia 3a Regional. This cam...

SC Falls To Pawnee At Altamont The season came to an end for the South Central Cougars as they fell at the Altamont 1a Sectional to the Pawnee Indians 4-0. A single by Ethan Fulton on an 0-2 count to ...

Today will open up the IHSA State Boys Track and Field competition. Salem sophomore Trey Clark will compete in the discus. Senior Miking Ettress will run in the 200. Kai'Veric Bratton of Centralia wil...

CHICAGO (AP) - Pete Crow-Armstrong hit his 15th home run, Matthew Boyd tossed six innings of four-hit ball and the Chicago Cubs edged the Colorado Rockies 2-1 on Wednesday night for their fourth strai...

BALTIMORE (AP) - Brendan Donovan hit a two-run homer, Masyn Winn had four hits and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-4 on Wednesday night at soggy Camden Yards. St. Louis trailed 3-...

1. The average person's attention span for a single screen is 47 seconds . . . down from two-and-a-half minutes in 2004. 2. The record for the most flowers sold in a single day was August 17, 1977 . ....