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DECATUR — Most Macon County departments were asked to cut their budgets by 6.2 percent to make up a nearly million-dollar revenue loss for the fiscal year that begins Dec. 1.

POCAHONTAS — A 4-year-old girl was killed and four members of her family are hospitalized after a house fire Wednesday morning.

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More than 2,000 people lined the streets of the U.S. naval base in Yokosuka, Japan, on Wednesday to show support for families and crew of the USS John S. McCain, which collided with an oil tanker, killing 10, including a…

The Decatur Park District said Wednesday that it will delay construction of a new water park because costs in the initial bids were too high.

DECATUR — Although Broadway performer LaVon Fisher-Wilson hasn’t been back to Millikin University since she graduated in 1995, she still thinks about her alma mater.

The district's goal is now to open the new facility in May 2019.

DECATUR — Decatur Municipal Band director Jim Culbertson makes sure the first show of the concert season is as good as the last, not only for the audience but for the band as well.