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The Illinois Department of Transportation, IDOT, has launched a new media campaign which is designed to remind the state’s drivers that they are not Invinceable when getting behind the wheel.
The Invinceable campaign humorously plays on cop shows of the 1970s and 1980s to drive home the message...
Memorials commemorating the terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, are on display in front of city hall and the fire and police station building in Anna.
The accompanying photograph features the display in front of the fire and police station.
The statewide average rainfall for August was 6.89 inches, 3.30 inches above normal and the wettest August on record, according to Illinois state climatologist Jim Angel with the Illinois State Water Survey at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
This year’s rainfall just beat the old...
An exhibit featuring the award-winning fine art photography of Tom Bell of Makanda is on display through Oct. 1 at the Luna Gallery at the Yellow Moon Cafe in downtown Cobden.
Bell recently retired after more than 30 years as a college administrator at John A. Logan College in Carterville and now...
Earthquakes occur without warning and can have devastating effects, as the world witnessed after a recent deadly earthquake in Italy.
With two seismic zones in the southern part of the state and Illinois residents who travel throughout the world, the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, IEMA, and...
The Shawnee National Forest’s Snake Road in Union County was scheduled to close on Sept. 1 for a fall snake and amphibian migration.
The U.S. Forest Service announced that the road would be closed so that snakes and amphibians can migrate from LaRue Swamp to nearby limestone bluffs.
Some of the...
From piggy banks to that first savings account, many children are taught the value of saving from an early age.
But as they grow to adolescence, following parental advice sometimes gives way to peer or media influences, and those once-thrifty children are now teenagers in a consumer-driven world...
An expert on voting rights is scheduled to speak at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau on Sept. 14 in commemoration of Constitution Day.
Dr. R. Keith Gaddie, President’s Associates Presidential Professor and chairperson of the Department of Political Science at the University of...
Saluki Family Weekend 2016, a time for Southern Illinois University Carbondale students and their families, is set for Sept. 16-18.
The weekend includes campus tours, photo opportunities, a craft sale, brunches, recreational and artistic activities, a magic show, movies, Saluki tailgating and...
Major improvements are underway at the veterans monument in downtown Alto Pass.
Members of the Alto Pass Area Veterans group were volunteering their time last Saturday to do the work.
The improvements are slated to include an expanded base, the installation of four flag poles for the display of U.S...
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