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Intelligence Director Rejects Spy Agency Relocation Reversal

April 26, 2016 @ 7:23 am

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The director of national intelligence says he doesn’t plan to overturn a subordinate’s preliminary decision to build a federal...

SIU Chancellor Condemns Racist Video

April 25, 2016 @ 11:20 am

CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — The chancellor of Southern Illinois University-Carbondale is threatening legal action and condemning an anonymous YouTube video that calls for the...

Rauner Signs $600 Mil. University Funding Package

April 25, 2016 @ 11:05 am

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed legislation to keep major Illinois universities operating until fall. The Republican signed the bill Monday...

SIU Adds Brewing Major to List of Degrees

April 25, 2016 @ 11:02 am

CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — Southern Illinois University has a new accredited degree in fermentation science to train future brewers, distillers and vintners. The Southern Illinoisan...

Illinois Seeks to Limit Use of Solitary Confinement

April 25, 2016 @ 10:10 am

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois lawmakers are trying to restrict the use of solitary confinement at state prisons with a proposal that limits the...

Kirk Questions Payments to Alexander County Housing Agency

April 25, 2016 @ 8:28 am

CAIRO, Ill. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk is asking the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s inspector general to look into the...

Authorities Find Man After He was Lost in Woods

April 23, 2016 @ 9:22 am

JACKSON CO- Early Saturday morning, around 1:00 am, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office received a call from a Carbondale man who had lost...

Single-Vehicle Crash Claims the Life of Driver

April 23, 2016 @ 8:30 am

SALINE CO- A Stonefort woman has died from her injuries following a single vehicle crash. Reports state that on Friday morning, around 9:22 am,...

Illinois Universities Grateful; Say More Needed

April 23, 2016 @ 8:22 am

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Leaders of Illinois’ public universities are thankful for the money the stop-gap funding bill passed by the state’s General Assembly...

Illinois House OKs $600M Lifeline for Struggling Colleges

April 22, 2016 @ 11:34 am

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois House has approved a $600 million short-term funding fix for financially struggling colleges and universities that have been...