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The Franklin Park Lady Bobcats hosted Centralia and came away with a 66-16 victory. Kenna Benjamin had another great game with 28 points, Lexie Malan added 16.   Also in regular season play, Avis...

The IESA Girls Basketball Regionals are underway at South Central Middle School.   The host Lady Falcons beat North Clay in their quarterfinal matchup 36-19 and will advance to Thursday's semifin...

1. Early 20th-century Pennsylvania Germans considered it bad luck to take a bath or change your clothing between Christmas and the New Year. 2. You could last about 15 seconds in space without a space...

The Salem Wildcats open up play at B.E. Gum for the season tonight when they host the always tough St Anthony Bulldogs. Salem is coming off a 2-2 stint at the Capital Classic. We will have the broadca...

The Salem Lady Wildcats trailed in the final 2 minutes of their home opener to Carlyle, but Shelby Johnson hit a 3, Jordan Kessler then hit a bucket to give the Lady Cats a 44-43 lead and 2 late free ...

The Salem boys and girls bowlers hosted Mt Vernon on Monday to Salem Bowl. The Salem varsity boys were split into 2 teams. Nicholi Mrhanka shot a 644 series to lead Team 1 to a 14 pin win over the Ram...

The Selmaville Rockets are at Rome after beating Odin 44-35. Rafe James finished with 10 for Selmaville and Isaac Knapp and Kasen Harris had 10 each. Moore led Odin with 14 and Seth Richardson added 1...

After a successful 17 year career, Mater Dei football coach Jim Stiebel has announced his decision to retire from his position of coach. He is the winningest coach in school history going 114-63 and r...

The Salem Wildcats finished their run at the Capital Classic with a 2-2 record after winning their finale over Red Hill on Saturday night in Lawrenceville 81-72.   The Wildcats trailed 17-14 afte...

The Centralia Orphans will try to add another Roxana Hoopsgiving Trophy to their ever growing trophy case when they travel tonight to take on University City in the championship after games were postp...