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ST. LOUIS — Southern Illinois University's men's basketball team did the job inside the 3-point arc Saturday in the Missouri Valley Conference tournament, but couldn't keep up with Illinois State's perimeter game.

CARBONDALE — SIU alumna Tequia Hicks-Delgado has taken a career path that led her from SIU through offices on Capitol Hill straight to the White House.

A Thebes man suffered serious injuries and two others suffered minor and non-life threatening injuries after a head-on collision Friday in Alexander County, according to Illinois State Police District 22.

ELKVILLE — Carole Jorgensen has a new name for the home on Chamness Road she shares with her husband Richard “Dick” Jorgensen. She now calls it the “house of glass,” and not because of the large picture windows that along…

Friends, family and neighbors pitched in to help victims of a tornado that hit Tuesday evening.

ELKVILLE — Gov. Bruce Rauner visited with victims of the possible tornado Thursday afternoon. The EF3 tornado hit homes along Chamness Road and Schlager Road on the north edge of Elkville.

One woman is injured after being hit by a car driven by a 94-year-old woman who was leaving church on Wednesday evening.

ELKVILLE — Scott Slone interrupted his telephone conversation to tell some volunteers about a single man out by himself trying to clear downed trees from his property.

Illinois State Police are investigating a car vs. pedestrian collision that took place at about 7:04 p.m. Wednesday in Union County.

ELKVILLE — Nadine Lacy, 79, was standing at her sink taking her medication Tuesday night when she heard a familiar noise. With her house just yards away from the railroad track, off the road named after her family, the sound…