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The Marion County Highway Department reports work has been completed on two road projects and the roads have now been reopened. They are the South Iuka Road south of the Route 161 extension where a la...

The Marion County Health Department is reporting 36 new cases of COVID-19 and no additional deaths for the four day period between Saturday and Tuesday. Health Department Administrator Melissa Mallow ...

Marion County Sheriff's Deputies arrested a 20-year-old Patoka man for possession of methamphetamine and resisting arrest following an early Wednesday morning traffic stop. Anthony Dickerson of West B...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - State officials are celebrating attendance at this year's Illinois State Fair after it was canceled in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The state Department of Agricultu...

NEW YORK (AP) - A new survey finds that vaccinated older adults are far more worried about COVID-19 than the unvaccinated are. And those vaccinated older adults are far likelier to take precautions de...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A northern Illinois man has died of rabies after apparently being bitten by a bat - the first human case of rabies in the state since 1954. The Illinois Department of Public H...

CHICAGO (AP) - The Chicago Bears took a major step toward moving out of their longtime home at Soldier Field and into the suburbs by signing a purchase agreement for Arlington Park about 30 miles nort...

A 49-year-old Kentucky man has been sentenced to a total of 21-years in prison for a residential burglary to his ex-girlfriend's home in Kinmundy and for violating an order of protection she had again...

The Marion County Sheriff's Department reports four people were injured in a three vehicle crash on Route 161 east of Racetrack Road east of Centralia Tuesday night. Sheriff's Deputies say the crash o...

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