For scuba diving enthusiasts, Mermet Springs is ‘the best place in the Midwest’
Sometimes a person doesn’t just discover a place. It discovers them, too. For Glen Faith, that place was an abandoned...
SIUE lecturer charged $100K in personal items to university credit card, feds say
The SIUE lecturer did not show up for his court date Wednesday.
SIU Foundation pays $2.2M to cancel new dorm development
A year after a new dorm project was announced, it has ground to a halt.
Former SIU professor exposed for indecent act on campus pleads guilty to amended charge
The incident drew national attention last year.
Employees, local lawmakers rally against layoffs, service cuts at Choate
The downsizing is part of a three-year plan announced by the Department of Human Services.
State to lay off hundreds at troubled southern Illinois mental health facility
The troubled facility in southern Illinois is giving way to a need for more mental health beds in Chicago, state...
In the Shawnee: Alpha-gal syndrome poses threat to southern Illinoisans as tick population surges
Illinois is among the top 13 states seeing a rise in alpha-gal syndrome cases, with residents living in southern Illinois...
School board moves to fire Carterville coach charged with criminal sexual abuse
The employee has been dismissed without pay.
Carterville assistant football coach arrested on criminal sexual abuse charges
The arrest comes 18 months after authorities first received a tip.
Carterville coach at center of sexual abuse investigation has history of disciplinary action
Public records reveal that an assistant football coach in Carterville who’s under investigation for criminal sexual abuse had previously been...
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