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JACKSON COUNTY — Jeffrey L. Keirn, Region Five Engineer for the Illinois Department of Transportation, announces that there will be a road closure at the railroad crossing on IL 3 north of Gorham, just north of Skeeter Park and Town…

A Johnston City man was killed Saturday as the result of injuries suffered in a crash involving a motorcycle and an automobile, according to a news release from Williamson County Coroner Michael “Junior” Burke.

Registered voters in Williamson County should be on the lookout for new voter registration cards, which will mail out June 27, according to a news release from Williamson County Clerk Amanda Barnes.

An infant from Tamms is dead after a Monday morning traffic crash.

ARNDT, Kayla and Matthew, a daughter, Wednesday, June 14, 2017, Memorial Hospital of Carbondale.

DU QUOIN — The 34th annual General Tire Street Machine Nationals got off to a soggy start Friday.

A town hall meeting focusing on school funding reform, specifically Senate Bill 1, will take place at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Harrisburg Middle School, 312 Bulldog Blvd.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Mike Bost and three of his Republican colleagues who are subcommittee chairs with jurisdiction over federal housing programs and government accountability sent a letter to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Thursday seeking a…

HARRISBURG – Mayor John McPeek confirmed a report of shots fired in Harrisburg early Friday morning in the 800 Block of Church Street. No injuries have been reported.

MARION — Whenever the gates of a railway crossing come down and a truck whizzes by on the tracks instead of a train there is a good chance that truck was modified by Eric and Anthony Loyd of Rail Ready…