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Last weekend, Avery Smith competed at the first ever IHSA Girls Wrestling Sectional in Peoria. She placed second in the tournament and qualified for the […]

Once again, Southwestern Illinois College Industrial Training programs have shown their mettle in metal. The SWIC Precision Machining Technology program received reaccreditation from the National […]

Illinois will receive more than $75 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Interior this year to boost efforts to clean up abandoned coal […]

The Hecker Fire Department was called around 6 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 15 to a house fire on Monroe Street in Hecker. The Red Bud […]

by Hannah Sievers Last Thursday night, Red Bud traveled to Carlyle for their final conference game and their last chance to win a conference game. […]

Baldwin American Legion Post 619 Commander Gary Brand, at right, is pictured presenting two checks to Village of Baldwin Trustee and Legion Vice Commander Darrell […]

On the evening of Jan. 10, 2015, two young local women, Abby Liefer and Hannah Porter, were fatally injured when a convicted drunken driver crashed […]

This week many area schools at least temporarily dropped the requirement that all students and staff wear face masks, allowing students to go to school […]

Due to last week’s weather causing the Randolph County Courthouse to be closed, the Randolph County Board of Commissioners moved their meeting from Friday, Feb. […]

It was another brief meeting for the Red Bud City Council on Monday night, with one of the bigger items being an employee resignation. The […]