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CARBONDALE — Austin Jones and John Henley are good friends and co-workers, but one thing will make them competitors — the shot put contest at Special Olympics. So, they were competitors Friday afternoon at the Region K Special Olympics Spring…

ZEIGLER — A proposal released Wednesday by the Department of Housing and Urban Development suggesting raising the rent on Housing’s poorest residents, as well as giving the option for work requirements to local housing authorities, was meant only to spark…

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois Democrats want to set up a state-monitored insurance company to drive down workers' compensation insurance costs.

PICKNEYVILLE — It has been five months since Perry County Sheriff Steve Bareis had to deliver the bad news that he would be laying off three part-time employees and give options to two full-timers, but now, he says, everyone has…

A Paducah man died Monday afternoon in a single-vehicle traffic crash on U.S. 45 just south of Carrier Mills, according to the Illinois State Police.

BENNETT, Susan, a daughter, Wednesday, April 11, 2018, Memorial Hospital of Carbondale.

More than $5 million in federal grant funding is coming to Southern Illinois with the goal of repairing roads in several counties that were damaged in last year's severe spring flooding.

STEELEVILLE — Number 25 won it all — all $1.5 million of it.

Nearly 3.5 miles have been shaved off the River-to-River Relay course for Saturday’s 31st running of the event.

Last week, school districts across Illinois received the first payments from a new evidence-based school funding formula.