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UNDATED (AP) - The Milwaukee Brewers won a battle of baseball's Central Division leaders last night Tyrone Taylor hit a grand slam to cap the Brewers' six-run outburst in the seventh inning of a 7-1 v...

UNDATED (AP) - Cleveland's Major League Baseball team has a new name. The team that's been known as the Indians since 1915 will be called the Guardians, effective at the end of the 2021 season. The or...

UNDATED (AP) - The Buffalo Sabres went with blueline help with the first overall pick in the NHL draft. The Sabres chose 6-foot-6 Michigan defenseman Owen Power, who scored three goals and 16 points i...

Ways to Fund Special Needs Trusts A look at the different choices & strategies. Provided by MidAmerica Financial Resources   If you have a child with special needs, a trust may be a financial...

D. Helen Alexander, 92, of Calumet City, formerly of Patoka passed away Friday, July 15, 2022, surrounded with the love of her family. Helen was blessed with amazing friends, neighbors, and bingo budd...

Melvin "Paul" Reuter, of Centralia, passed away Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital. Paul served in the Marines during the Korean War. After the serving our country, he went to St...

Nearly 2,000 cases of COVID-19 were reported Thursday in Illinois, the highest one day total since early May. The number of new cases has been rising in recent weeks. Governor JB Pritzker says they ar...

Unemployment was up significantly in South Central Illinois in June from a month earlier, but the number in the work force also increased. The Illinois Department of Employment Security reports 6.9-pe...

The Marion County Sheriff's Department is investigating the cause of a fire that destroyed a car while it was parked on a field road off the 2100 block of Norton Road in rural Odin. The owner of the v...

The South Central Storm will host tryouts for the 21/22 season at Webster Park in Kinmundy this weekend. The 14u will tryout Saturday at 4pm following the 2pm tryouts for the 18 and 16u. Then on Sunda...