Street workers are keeping up with the pothole crop

No arrests have yet been made in the 2007 murder of Marion woman Falon Taylor, but Carbondale police believe the case is solvable.

 The last possibility for the sale of the old Marion Hospital property ended during an executive meeting between the Marion City Council and Bruce Harrell of California.

State Rep. John Bradley, D-Marion, said Monday he is hopeful that the legislative committee responsible for recommending whether the Illinois House should vote to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich will make a decision on the matter this week.

The trial of Marion physician Sean McCain will commence Jan. 13.

A 22-year-old woman was taken into custody Friday night after she called 911 and claimed to have been beaten up at a Johnston City bar.

A gas tax proposal by Marion State Rep. John Bradley received a unified reaction at the pump from locals at the pump Friday afternoon.

While bars and casinos around the state believed the statewide smoking ban hurt business during its first year, some local establishments didn't feel as much pain in the cash register.

Though no mistletoe adorned the altar at St. Peter United Church of Christ  in Centralia New Year's Day, love filled the sanctuary as a Southern Illinois couple welcomed 2009 with wedding vows.

Wildcat basketball fans had an early call Tuesday, with the first of two Marion games on the day beginning at 11 a.m. 

Williamson County Coroner Mike “Junior” Burke said Tuesday that his office is investigating the death of a Williamson County Jail inmate last week.

The driver of a truck hauling coal has been ticketed after falling asleep at the wheel on Rt. 13 east of Marion, causing the vehicle to run into a ditch and turn over.

With the help of a Marion business, there is finally a tombstone on the grave of a man whose body was found near railroad tracks in Johnson County nearly 90 years ago. And the Reevesville Cemetery Committee is seeking the public’s help in providing the same service to others buried there.

Degrees earned through cooperative effort of John A. Logan College and Mid-Continent University

Nashville-based singer-songwriter Rick Huckaby describes his music at “blues-based country.”
A pretty big country star thinks his songs are good enough to record, also.