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ULLIN — Josh Shearer wants every student in Illinois to have what he had — a life-changing art teacher.

CARTERVILLE — Imagine being the first person responding to an emergency call, finding someone profusely bleeding and not being able to help. Dr. Joseph Haake, and emergency room clinician and emergency services director for Southern Illinois Regional EMS, said this…

MURPHYSBORO — It’s no secret that black soldiers played a prominent role in the Union Army during the Civil War.

According to Pepper Holder of Carbondale, few people know who Annie Malone is or know of her connection to Southern Illinois. The Freeman Institute agrees, adding that before Oprah Winfrey, Rosa Parks or Madam C.J. Walker, there was Annie Turnbo…

In the most recent election, in April 2017, only 16.4 percent of registered voters in Jackson County made it to the polls.

Richard Hayes’ obituary in the Carbondale Daily Free Press stated that he was a “colored pioneer of Jackson County,” but said little else about 85-year-old man who had lived in or near that city for at least three decades.

TILDEN — For Eris McBride, the kitchen stands in for the psychiatrist’s office.

ALDRIDGE, Kellie, and JAUSEL, Scot, a son, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018, Memorial Hospital of Carbondale.

CHESTER — Representatives are still waiting on answers after a patient at Chester Mental Health was diagnosed Wednesday with Legionnaires’ Disease.

MARION — You’ve probably seen them around town: A gray tabby in the parking lot of a local grocery store, a kitten that is too wild to pet, a tiger-striped cat that uses your flower bed as its litter box,…