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ST. LOUIS (AP) - Lucas Raymond and Robby Fabbri scored in the third period to lift the Detroit Red Wings over the scuffling St. Louis Blues 6-4 on Tuesday night. Soon after their season-worst fourth s...

CHICAGO (AP) - Nikola Jokic was ejected in the second quarter. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope was held out in the second half after a collision with Nikola Vucevic. Jamal Murray didn't play at all. The rest...

A 79-year-old rural Iuka man has died after somehow falling into an eight-foot-deep hole where he was burning items outside his home late Monday afternoon. Funeral services for Estel Deon Allison of B...

A 37-year-old homeless Centralia man has been sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to one of two aggravated criminal sexual assault charges pending against him. Bryce Jones was sche...

A 33-year-old Salem woman has been transported to a St. Louis hospital for treatment of injuries sustained in a pickup truck-bicycle collision on the east side of Centralia early Saturday night. Centr...

State Police say one person was injured in a three vehicle crash that occurred Monday night on Illinois Route 161 at Moonglow Road east of Centralia. Preliminary information indicates a 16-year-old ma...

A Georgia truck driver was injured when his rig left northbound I-57 at mile marker 107 nine miles south of Salem early Monday afternoon and overturned in a creek. Kell Fire Chief Mick McDaneld says t...

A 27-year-old Centralia man was returned to the Marion County Jail after being released from prison due to an outstanding warrant. Jarvis Brown of East Noleman posted $1,000 cash bond and was released...

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The Salem Wildcats are back in action tonight when they host the Olney Tigers. The Tigers have lost just once this season, to state ranked Mt Zion, and defeated the Cats earlier this year in the Capit...