DeSoto man who struck boy, mother 117 times with a bat pleads guilty to murder
Marcus Moultrie, 37, pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder charges.
Prosecutors: Man charged with killing 8-year-old DeSoto boy tried to hire inmate to kill boy’s mother
A DeSoto man charged with killing an 8-year-old boy is accused of trying to hire a fellow inmate to kill...
Marion woman duped out of $318K in elaborate gold-bar scheme
A 30-year-old Flushing, New York, man pleaded guilty last week to wire fraud and conspiracy.
In a flash, history tumbles down
Crews will now work to remove the remaining pieces of the old bridge from the river.
25 years ablaze: SIU’s ‘Fire Dawgs’ inspires land management careers
Fire Dawgs is a student club that participates in controlled burns across southern Illinois in cooperation with the Illinois Department...
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.
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