U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is proposing federal protections for the monarch butterfly. The service Thursday, Dec.

The Marion boys basketball team improved to 5-2 after traveling an hour and a half up north to beat a very good Breese Mater Dei team on its home court Friday night and then traveling almost an hour ...

Roger Gail Winters, 76, of Elizabethtown passed away peacefully at his home in the Rock Creek community on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. Roger was born on July 5, 1948. Private graveside services will be ...

Jose Bautista, 44, of Herrin died at 11:32 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024, at St. Louis University Hospital. Jose was born July 1, 1980, in Palm Springs, Calif., to Alfredo and Brenda (Smith) Bautista Sr.

Shelba “Harlene” Gibbons, 86, passed away peacefully early Monday morning, Dec. 16, 2024, after battling a brief illness and a stay at Eldorado Nursing and Rehab Center. Harlene was born Nov. 10, 1938 ...

More than five years after Illinois began issuing permits for legal production of industrial hemp, Gov. JB Pritzker said ...

LaWanda Jean Jackson, 77, a former resident of Rosiclare, passed away at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024, at her residence at Autumn Ridge Supportive Living in Vienna. Jean, as she was known to family ...

The School of Applied Engineering and Technology at SIU Carbondale is cooperating with a Marion electronics manufacturer to ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials plan to drain Little Grassy Lake this month, saying the dramatic step is needed to stave off a potential "cascade of infrastructure failures" that could devastate ...