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The Salem Wildcats being their 2nd trip through the Cahokia Conference schedule as they host Breese Central this afternoon. Salem is 2-3 in the Conference and 9-9 overall on the season. The JV will al...

The Lady Cougars of South Central host CHBC. They improved to 11-8 on the season with a home win over TTown 9-6. Taegan Webster homered and drove in 5 runs, Kyra Swift tripled and Abi Shuler added a d...

The Salem Lady Cats soccer team tied with Mt Carmel 3-3. Jordan Kessler scored twice, assisted by Madison Freiboth and Aila Laird added a goal assisted by Mak Mann.

The Christ Our Rock Lady Stallions Track and Field team was at Benton Today for the Don Webb Invitational, while the Stallion Boys headed to Mcleansboro for The Hamilton Co. Foxes Invitational. For th...

Franklin Park hosted Nashville, Carlyle, Sandoval, Patoka, Rome and St Rose for a meet at Salem High School. Salem hit 48 total personal records on the day and met 5 state standards. Silas Lux won the...

The Franklin Park golf team competed against Odin/Patoka and Sandoval. The boys shot 166 to Odin/Patoka's 204 and Sandoval 213. Kai Graham and Eli Dice shot 39, Caleb Squibb and Huck Mulvaney added 44...

Saturday kicked off at East Fork for the Salem anglers. Ben Ryan and Aaden Rostance led the way with a 25th place finish. Wyatt McCarty, Landen Maxey 32nd, Archer Tucker, Peyton Durham 33rd, Lucas Hod...

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department is asking for the public's help in locating a vehicle that struck a man riding an ATV that had been thrown off in an initial crash seconds earlier. Jefferson ...

Former Rend Lake College head basketball coach Brian Gamber is returning to the Mount Vernon Rams bench as an assistant coach. Brian spent 4 years on the bench for the Warriors. He is a 2005 Mount Ver...

The Salem 10-Tabor Lady Wildcats travel team opened their season this past weekend hosting the Aviston Belles. In Game 1 Salem won 9-6. Kailey Meredith scored 3 runs with 2 from Jayla Tabor and also s...