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A Galatia man had to be taken by helicopter to a local hospital after a single-vehicle crash Friday, according to Illinois State Police District 19.

A Texas man suffered major injuries after a motorcycle crash Saturday on Interstate 57 in Franklin County, according to Illinois State Police District 13.

CARBONDALE — With birds chirping in the background and an early warm spring sun shining down, the steps at the back side of the building became the backdrop for Thursday's Street S.M.A.R.T.S. class at the Boys & Girls Club.

CAIRO — “Dear Ben Carson,” sixth-grader Gabriella Lyas has a message for you: She wants to know how Housing and Urban Development can relocate nearly 400 residents from their homes without providing for new public housing within the city limits.

Every parent has days when the frustrations of the job get to them.

CAIRO — Cairo citizens are rallying together to brainstorm ways to save their community after federal housing officials announced Monday that about 185 families would have to move out of their unsafe housing complexes, and that most of the residents…

The morning after Glenn Poshard lost the Illinois governor’s race to George Ryan in 1998, his wife, Jo, had a question for him: “What are we going to do now?”

CARTERVILLE — Parents of students in Carterville Community Unit School District 5 will have to take a new route to school beginning April 24 because of the temporary closure of West Grand Avenue.

CARTERVILLE — A Carterville Police Officer stopped to assist a motorist at about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 12, on Eagle Pass Drive. On 04-12-17 at about 1:30 pm, a Carterville Officer stopped to assist a motorist on Eagle Pass Drive.

CARBONDALE — Doug and Lisa Cherry had just started a new church in Carbondale and were busy trying to get that established.