LIBERTY -- Saline County Sheriff's Deputies arrested a rural Harrisburg man after striking a deputy in the nose with a board in the Liberty area, just west of Harrisburg.
HARRISBURG -- Harrisburg Police arrested a janitor at Harrisburg Middle School for making terrorist threats.
MOUNT VERNON — A longtime Southern Illinois legislator has decided not to seek re-election this year.
State Sen. John Jones, R-Mt. Vernon, has announced he has withdrawn as a candidate for the Republican nomination for the Illinois Senate from the 54th District.
SHAWNEE NATIONAL FOREST -- The U.S. Forest Service is seeking public comment on a possible swap of property with American Land Holdings of Illinois.
HARRISBURG -- Charles Rayburn Ryan, 41, Harrisburg, has been charged with two counts of first degree murder in the stabbing death of his stepfather, Carl L. Crouch, 59, Harrisburg, according to a bill of information provided by the Saline County State's Attorney's Office.
HARRISBURG -- A Harrisburg man is jailed and accused of the stabbing death of his stepfather.
HARRISBURG -- Harrisburg Police were alerted to a suspected methamphetamine lab Monday when one of those involved in the operation accidentally dialed 911.
GRANITE CITY — Mike Meyer was nervous about letting an obsessed acquaintance anywhere near his sprawling collection of Superman treasures. When the man finally talked his way into his home, Meyer got a real-life lesson in truth, justice and the American way.
GOLCONDA -- The 51st annual Golconda celebration of deer hunting and southeastern Illinois returns tonight with the Pope County Deer Festival.
SPRINGFIELD — A bi-partisan panel of lawmakers Thursday voted against closing the Jacksonville Developmental Center and the Logan Correctional Center. However, the vote by the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability is advisory only.
SPRINGFIELD — Charges have been filed against three men after an 11-month investigation by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources Office of Law Enforcement in a deer poaching case.
The three men — one each from Illinois, New York and Ontario — were cited for numerous Wildlife Code violations, including the illegal take of a potential state-record whitetail deer, and they now face charges through the Grundy County State's Attorney's Office.
PINCKNEYVILLE -- When members of the Pinckneyville City Council hammered physician Dr. Tim Mathis on television interviews recently about why it has taken so long to clean up the debris from an April fire that destroyed the Kunz Opera House, owner Mathis responds: “All you had to do was ask. Nobody did.”
Mathis -- who provides ER coverage at hospitals in Metropolis and Staunton -- has explained the problem.
About 100 Marine Corps reservists will start training this fall for a 10-month stay in Afghanistan in 2012.
The (Peoria) Journal Star (http://bit.ly/ppObfP ) reports that the members of Company C of the 6th Engineer Support Battalion will head to Camp Pendleton in California in October. They will train for several weeks.
Some Illinois school children are getting an extra-long holiday weekend due to high temperatures and the lack of air conditioning in their schools.
The risk that an earthquake would cause a severe accident at a U.S. nuclear plant is greater than previously thought, 24 times as high in one case, according to an AP analysis of preliminary government data. The nation's nuclear regulator believes a quarter of America's reactors may need modifications to make them safer.
The threat came into sharp focus last week, when shaking from the largest earthquake to hit Virginia in 117 years appeared to exceed what the North Anna nuclear power plant northwest of Richmond was built to sustain.
An Oct. 19 sentencing date is scheduled for a Macomb man who's again been convicted of beating his girlfriend's 5-year-old daughter to death.
The McDonough County Voice (http://bit.ly/pVFdKR ) reports that a jury in western Illinois deliberated for more than two hours before convicting 33-year-old Daniel Belknap in the 2006 death of Silven Yocum.
Illinois' transportation department is suspending road construction where possible to ease traffic congestion on the busy Labor Day weekend.
Acting Transportation Secretary Ann Schneider says advance notice of construction-zone status will help thousands of motorists plan trips and travel safely.
Proceeds from scratch-off lottery ticket sales will help nine colleges and nonprofit organizations deliver services to Illinois veterans.
The Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs announced more than $500,000 in grants on Thursday. The money comes from the Veterans Cash lottery program.
For some Illini-heads, there are only two seasons: basketball and basketball recruiting. But with Illinois spring football practice beginning Tuesday, it's back to the gridiron, where the Illini posted only three winning seasons in the past 15 years.
Illinois lost its bid today for more than $500 million in federal school grants, as U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the state was not one of the winners in Race to the Top.
