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FORSYTH — Tickets to the three-day Route 91 Harvest Festival were a Mother's Day gift for Brian and Michelle Huggins of Forsyth.

LINCOLN — Isolated storms may parch the thirst of Central Illinois this afternoon, according to the National Weather Service in Lincoln, after a dry September in which less than an inch of rain fell in the area.

DECATUR — Operation Enduring Support will be meeting to prepare Christmas care packages for local troops deployed overseas.

DECATUR — With three candidates running for Macon County sheriff, including a rare primary race, campaigning has already started in earnest as the three high-ranking members of the sheriff's office seek to differentiate themselves for voters.

DECATUR — The mass shooting of dozens on the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday has renewed attention on the sale of firearms and the response to national incidents.

The Chicago Cubs lost their game on Sunday, Oct. 1, against Cincinnati. The result was incorrect in a photo caption in "Cubs lose, but focus on playoffs" on page B3 of Monday's Herald & Review. The newspaper erred.

The Natural Resources Defense Council was misidentified in the Sunday story "Project safety stores carbon" on the front page of Sunday's Herald & Review. The newspaper erred.

Las Vegas police say a gunman acting alone killed at least 58 people and wounded hundreds more at a concert on Sunday night.

The photo captions for Thurgood Marshall and 'The Twilight Zone' were under the wrong photos in the Herald & Review Almanac. PPG is located west of Mount Zion on Macon County Highway 30. The location of PPG was incorrect in…