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COVID-19 cases are finally starting to decline across most of South Central Illinois following a state trend that began three weeks ago. Meanwhile, Fayette County is reporting two additional COVID-19 ...

Jefferson County Fire Protection District Firefighters fought an early morning grass fire Tuesday morning. The fire was on the Matt Harris property in the 10,500 block of East Hutch Road southwest of ...

Marion County Health Department Administrator Melissa Mallow says now that the state has taken over most of the contact tracing for COVID-19, the health department is gearing up to restart some of its...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The NAACP is urging Attorney General Merrick Garland to bring federal civil rights charges against the white Chicago police officer who fatally shot Black teenager Laquan McDonald. N...

A winter storm warning goes into effect at six Wednesday morning for South Central Illinois. The weather service says heavy mixed precipitation is expected. Total snow accumulation of four to seven in...

A former Centralia and Salem man has been sentenced to five years in prison after earlier entering a plea agreement to a one-count indictment of maintaining a drug-involved premise within 1,000 feet o...

Fire destroyed a track hoe owned by Morton and Sons Farm late Monday morning near the intersection of the Kell and Buchannon Roads in rural Texico. The track hoe was a half-mile off the road when it c...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed a lawsuit against an Illinois-based COVID-19 testing company, accusing it of improperly handling tests and providing fake...

Here is the current forecast for the winter storm. Tuesday A 40 percent chance of rain, mainly after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 54. South wind 7 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Tue...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois governor plans to tackle inflation by sparing consumers nearly $1 billion in taxes in the coming year, including freezing taxes on groceries and gasoline and offe...