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Reality Check on Your Retirement Savings Provided by MidAmerica Financial Resources   Whether you're 23 or 35, it's important to know whether you are saving enough for your retirement. There is n...

Franklin Park held their Winter Awards Night. Coach Levi Quinn for the boys basketball team handed the MVP to Landon Maxey, Trey Clark won the Jim Husk Offensive Player of the Year, Avery Gullion was ...

Marion County Sheriff Kevin Cripps has announced a donation of three LIFEPAK defibrillators. Cripps accepted the units from Rich Crouse at the Crouse Funeral Home in Salem. He says the donation will m...

Castle Ridge is excited to host a Murder Mystery Dinner on Saturday, March 4th, on behalf of Carrie Leigh's upcoming Dream Come True Prom. This interactive event will have actors from Local Celebrity ...

Bond was set at $100,000 in Marion County Court on Wednesday for a 43-year-old Odin man who was formally charged with a Class X felony drug offense along with two other drug possession charges. Randle...

A 30-year-old Salem man escaped injury but was arrested following a single car crash late Wednesday night on Barton Road south of Nevada Road in rural Sandoval. Marion County Sheriff's Deputies say Ji...

Marion County Circuit Clerk Tiffany Schicker has received a $282,468 Technology Modernization Grant from the Illinois Courts System. Schicker says a number of improvements are planned with the money. ...

A Jefferson County Jury deliberated about 20 minutes Wednesday afternoon before finding a 19-year-old Mt. Vernon man guilty of armed violence. Jaylen Smith was arrested on the charge last December aft...

The first-ever Polar Plunge will be held in the rear Centralia High School parking lot on Friday, March 10th. The Polar Plunge like the ones at Rend and Carlyle Lake will help raise money for Special ...

MOLINE, Ill. (AP) - Here are the Illinois Associated Press Class 1A-4A All-State girls' basketball teams as voted on by a statewide panel of newspaper sports writers/editors, TV/radio broadcasters, an...