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BAUMGARTE, Brandy and Samuel, a daughter, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, Memorial Hospital of Carbondale.

Hilary Wendt serves up a plate of the infamous Chocolate Chicken Wings from Thai Taste at the Taste of Chocolate event on Friday in Carbondale. The event is a fundraising effort for the Women's Center.

MURPHYSBORO — The Jackson County Health Department is doing its part in fighting the amount of new HIV cases in the lower 19 counties of Illinois.

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BAKER, Kasey and Jakup, a son, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, Memorial Hospital of Carbondale.

A $700,000 jackpot. $1,600 worth of raffle tickets. Hundreds of people packed into the American Legion. This is the weekly Queen of Hearts drawing in Steeleville.

Human beings are attracted to tragedy. It’s coded somewhere within our DNA. We say we would rather avoid the exposure, but as terrible events unfold, we lock our eyes and hearts on them and never let them go.

BENTON — The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of six transgender inmates against the Illinois Department of Corrections for what it says is systematic mistreatment of inmates with gender…

The Franklin County coroner said Wednesday the two people who died in a West City home this past Thursday were an elderly married couple who died in a murder-suicide.