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SPARTA — The hackberry tree in front of James and Phyllis Hayes’ house has seen it all.

A Sesser man suffered minor injuries after Tuesday night crash in Washington County, according to Illinois State Police, District 13.

Are Southern Illinois residents prepared for an earthquake? A lot of officials believe they should be.

CARBONDALE — Protesters from several local activist groups gathered outside the Carbondale office of U.S. Rep. Mike Bost on Tuesday to voice concerns about Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

CARONDALE — As a sign in front of the Ashley Furniture Home Store on East Main Street flashed details about the store’s President’s Day sale, firefighters worked to put out a fire between the furniture store and neighboring Econo Lodge…

Editor's Note: Throughout February, The Southern will run a series of profiles of Civil War veterans on Sundays. The profiles are from a special exhibit at the John A. Logan Museum in Murphysboro called "Forgotten Soldiers: Jackson County's African-American Civil…

MAKANDA — New operators are writing a second chapter for a roughly 250-acre camp site in the heart of the Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge that had operated since 1953 as the Girl Scouts’ Camp Cedar Point.

BUECHSENSSCHUETZ, Andrea and Daniel, a son, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, Memorial Hospital of Carbondale.

WEST FRANKFORT — For more than a week, a popular West Frankfort businessman and community leader has been in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a detention facility in Montgomery City, Missouri, as his neighbors, family…

CARBONDALE — Craig H. Rogers, publisher of The Southern Illinoisan, announced Friday that Tom English was named executive editor, effective immediately.