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Olen "Butch" Border Jr. 79, passed away, Tuesday, August 2, 2022 peacefully at his home with his family by his side. Butch grew up in Centralia, Illinois attending Central City Grade School class of 1...

Franklin Park girls basketball coach Melissa Fehrenbacher has been awarded the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Basketball Coach of the Year for our region. The banquet will be held August 28th...

Atlanta Braves (54-54, third in the NL East) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (53-54, third in the NL Central) St. Louis; Thursday, 8:15 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Touki Toussaint (1-2, 4.77 ERA, 1.0...

Chicago Cubs (52-57, fourth in the NL Central) vs. Colorado Rockies (47-61, fourth in the NL West) Denver; Thursday, 3:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Cubs: Jake Arrieta (5-10, 6.20 ERA, 1.61 WHIP, 69...

TOKYO (AP) - Megan Rapinoe and Carli Lloyd each scored a pair of goals and the United States won the bronze medal in women's soccer at the Tokyo Olympics with a 4-3 victory over Australia. It was argu...

UNDATED (AP) - Javier Bez hit a tiebreaking homer in the eighth inning after scoring on a nifty slide in the second, and the New York Mets snapped a three-game losing streak with a 5-3 victory over th...

UNDATED (AP) - Major League Baseball will open the 2022 season on March 31 and will try for the fourth time to have every team play its first game on the same day for the first time since 1968. The le...

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) - Beginning this weekend at Watkins Glen International, NASCAR will require all personnel to wear a face mask in enclosed areas at all times, regardless of vaccination status. ...

Understanding Extended Care The important question: are you prepared? Provided by MidAmerica Financial Resources   Addressing the potential threat of extended care expenses may be one of the bigg...

Wise World of Wellen presented by Salem Eye Clinic Neil Armstrong and the crew from Apollo 11 all had to fill out customs forms when they landed back on Earth. Yosemite National Park has struggled to ...