MARION - Marion Unit 2 school board president Joe Bleyer addressed recent bizarre social-media rumors that the district was adding litter boxes to the restrooms for students who wished to dress up in ...

A researcher at Southern Illinois University Carbondale wants to use agricultural waste products to develop carbon materials specifically designed to trap carbon dioxide, and he has earned a ...

Investigators who later came to the scene of the 2014 incident heard various versions of what happened next. But multiple witnesses told the Illinois State Police that shortly after this exchange, ...

The Marion Wildcats football team played just about a perfect game on both sides of the ball scoring touchdowns on seven of its nine offensive possessions while the defense forced five turnovers to ...

"We are trying to maintain continuity," said Knight Hawk Coal Co. president Steve Carter this week after the reserves at the south portal of the Prairie Eagle mine were depleted in July, while the ...

PINCKNEYVILLE - The Union and Confederate soldiers had to fight Mother Nature during the real war and it was no different last weekend at Pyramid State Park's Denmark Unit. What was shaping up to be a ...

MARION - One of the longest-serving Williamson County State's Attorneys in Illinois history died early Tuesday morning. Charles "Chuck" Garnati succumbed to health complications at University Hospital ...

MARION -This Sunday marks 40 years since a deadly tornado ripped through Marion. The May 29, 1982 F4 tornado killed 10 people, injured 200, destroyed homes, dozens of businesses and uprooted thousands ...

CREAL SPRINGS - Organizer Gail Blue has always called her twice-a-year flea market Blue's Junk & Primitives a gathering. And for this year's fall version of the popular event, the weather couldn't ...

SPRINGFIELD - State Sen. Dale Fowler (R-Harrisburg) has been named a Champion of Free Enterprise by the Illinois Chamber of Commerce for his contributions to the defense of free enterprise, and the ...

MARION - A small group of protesters were outside the Wilson-McReynolds Funeral Home in Marion for much of Tuesday, saying they want the public to know a convicted sex offender was employed at the ...

Secretary of State and State Librarian Jesse White awarded $627,624 in 2023 Project Next Generation (PNG) grants to 30 public libraries statewide, including two in Williamson County. PNG grants ...