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Supporting your local businesses includes your hometown paper, tooAug 11, 2017 1:00 am - I have always believed in shopping locally first and foremost. Our family buys its gas in the town where we reside. We buy our groceries and incidentals, and regularly d...
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SIU ready to welcome students to campusAug 11, 2017 1:00 am - siu news service CARBONDALE - Southern Illinois University Carbondale will launch the fall 2017 semester with a wide variety of special events and activities to welcome ...
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Zeigler man sent to prison for two years for having methAug 11, 2017 1:00 am - MARION -- A 27-year-old Zeigler man was sentenced to two years in prison last week in Williamson County Circuit Court after pleading guilty to meth possession. Chad A. ...
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Workers get carnival up and running at WC FairAug 11, 2017 1:00 am - MARION - Tom Cunningham of Swanwick said the carnival life has always suited him. The 58-year-old has been in the business for 27 years and said he is proud to have work...
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Southern Illinois Miners honor BrockmeyerAug 10, 2017 11:00 pm - A large number of Chester city and police representatives attended the Southern Illinois Miners' law enforcement appreciation night at Rent One Park in Marion on Thursda...
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12 years since the end of the walking deadAug 10, 2017 1:00 am - Today is the 12th anniversary of my passing from death to life. Twelve years ago, I was in a cell, facing 10 years in prison, and I was going through withdrawal. The wi...
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Missouri man found dead at Fort de ChartresAug 09, 2017 11:00 pm - A 59-year-old man found dead inside a car at the employee parking lot at Fort de Chartres in Prairie du Rocher on Wednesday has preliminarily been ruled to have died by ...
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Baldwin resident injured in single-vehicle crashAug 09, 2017 11:00 pm - A 28-year-old Baldwin resident, Katie Brewer, was transported to Memorial Hospital of Chester for treatment of injuries after a single-vehicle accident on Aug. 6 on Stat...
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Betty L. Cusic of HarrisburgAug 09, 2017 1:00 am - HARRISBURG - Betty L. Cusic, 85, died at 7:15 a.m. Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 13, in Gaskins City Baptist Church in Harrisbur...
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School reform isn't a boxing match. We don't need a winnerAug 09, 2017 1:00 am - In one corner: Illinois' Democrat-led legislature that tucked a requirement for a new school funding formula into a groundbreaking state budget agreement last month, but...