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Today and Sunday are your final chances to weigh in on your Decatur-area favorites.

TAYLORVILLE – One person was injured Friday when a semitruck collided with a pickup truck along U.S. 51 in Christian County.

DECATUR — Kyle Anderson, 64, traveled from Decatur to Blue Mound to walk around a park in cold weather just to count the birds he sees and contribute to conservation.

Pizza fans in Decatur have wondered if the famed Del Carmen's East may rise again after a fire decimated the original. The city council has a rezoning request on its agenda next week.

The Stewardson-Strasburg School District will conduct free developmental screening for preschoolers by appointment on Wednesday, Mar. 14, in Stewardson-Strasburg Elementary School.

Elizabeth Weidner, 2017 Junior Miss Effingham County Fair Queen, is collecting travel-sized personal care items for patients and their families in Children's and Gardinal Glennon hospitals in St. Louis. The Children's Miracle Network hospitals keep toiletries and snacks on hand…

CASEY — Audience members are invited to sing and dance along with classic rock 'n' roll songs when the choirs from Casey-Westfield and Cumberland high schools team up for a concert Sunday afternoon.

DECATUR — The man killed in a Decatur Housing Authority apartment fire was “extremely intoxicated” in the moments leading up to his death, a coroner’s jury was told Thursday before ruling his death accidental.

School leaders and lawmakers are concerned about a potential shift of pension costs from the state to local districts that might wipe out gains from the school funding reform law passed last year.