Time to study up, Illinois. When the clock hits midnight on New Year’s Day, 293 new state laws will take effect. Those ...

Betty June Smith, 76, of Elizabethtown passed away Dec. 19, 2024, at Axiom Healthcare of Rosiclare. Private services will be held at a later date. Hardin County Funeral Service in Rosiclare is in ...

John Francis (“Jack”) Hagan passed away Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, at Herrin Hospital. Jack was born March 16, 1930, in Alton to Francis Hagan and Mary Hagan (Gates) (nee Reid). He married Joan Lavelle ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is proposing federal protections for the monarch butterfly. The service Thursday, Dec. 12, proposed to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species and ...

The Marion boys basketball team improved to 5-2 after traveling an hour and a half up north to beat a very good Breese Mater Dei team on its home court Friday night and then traveling almost an hour ...

Roger Gail Winters, 76, of Elizabethtown passed away peacefully at his home in the Rock Creek community on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. Roger was born on July 5, 1948. Private graveside services will be ...

Jose Bautista, 44, of Herrin died at 11:32 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024, at St. Louis University Hospital. Jose was born July 1, 1980, in Palm Springs, Calif., to Alfredo and Brenda (Smith) Bautista Sr.

Shelba “Harlene” Gibbons, 86, passed away peacefully early Monday morning, Dec. 16, 2024, after battling a brief illness and a stay at Eldorado Nursing and Rehab Center. Harlene was born Nov. 10, 1938 ...

More than five years after Illinois began issuing permits for legal production of industrial hemp, Gov. JB Pritzker said ...