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The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency in Springfield is forecasting unhealthy air conditions again on Thursday for sensitive groups (USG) for ozone and fine particulates. The Air Quality Alert ...

Marion County State's Attorney Tim Hudspeth has charged a 17-year-old juvenile as an adult in connection with the April shooting in Laura Leake Park that sent two to St. Louis hospitals for treatment....

Some new laws and tax increases take effect July 1st. Starting Saturday, the 1% sales tax on groceries returns and a delayed 3-cent increase in the motor fuel tax will be implemented. Governor JB Prit...

The Salem Wildcats advanced to the varsity summer league championship game after knocking off Flora last night in the semifinal 4-0. Jalen Inlow tripled home a run to start the scoring in the fourth i...

The Salem City Series will come down to a Winner-Take-All Game 3 after Rotary staved off elimination last night beating Security Alarm 7-0. Jared Crompton was too good for Rotary as the hurler struck ...

Salem IGA used a huge 4th inning to pull away and win the 2023 Junior League Tournament after winning the regular season title. IGA beat Peoples National Bank 11-1. In the 8 run fourth inning, Colton ...

In the first round of the Majors Softball Tournament, 2nd seed Salem Tire beat #3 Somer Real Estate 17-3. Katee Sellers struck out 11 in the win and at the plate had 3h its including a double with 2 r...

In boys coach pitch tournament play, Lions beat undefeated Country Financial 19-7 and wil advance to tonight's championship at 6pm. Nolan Crouse, Beckham Detmer and Ryder Lawson all had 4 hits in the ...

In Salem Recreation/YMCA men's softball at Bryan Park, Pennington Chevrolet beat Iuka State Bank 17-12, ABC Pub then handed Iuka State Bank a 17-15 loss.

CHICAGO (AP) - Nick Castellanos, Edmundo Sosa and Josh Harrison homered and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Chicago Cubs 8-5 on Wednesday night. Castellanos hit a three-run homer in the second off ...