• Local community colleges prepare for fracking expansion

    Updated: Tue Jun 18, 2013 6:39 PM

    Monday Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed tough hydraulic fracturing regulatory measures into law. That paves the way for high quantity commercial drilling to begin in the state.

  • Moving Mobile Classrooms Out

    Updated: Tue Jun 18, 2013 6:35 PM

    A local school district is making moves.

  • Local church damaged by fire, then winds will rebuild

    Updated: Tue Jun 18, 2013 6:24 PM

    A local church rebuilding from a fire is destroyed by high winds. The congregation, even without insurance, plans to rebuild.

  • Gun violence spikes in local community

    Updated: Tue Jun 18, 2013 6:04 PM

    Police in one local community are working harder this year than ever before to curb gun violence. The Sikeston, Missouri Department of Public Safety is partnering with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to make their streets safer.

  • SIH starts first cancer rehab program in the region

    Updated: Tue Jun 18, 2013 5:59 PM

    There are more than 13 million cancer survivors living in the United States and Southern Illinois Healthcare employees say that 90% of those survivors could benefit from some kind of cancer rehabilitation.

  • South Fulton community cleaning up after flood

    Updated: Tue Jun 18, 2013 5:54 PM

    Flood waters poured through our area yesterday and the dirty clean up must be done now!

  • Police looking for culprit in Cape Girardeau, Mo. convenience store robbery

    Updated: Tue Jun 18, 2013 4:29 PM

    Police now say they have a suspect in the robbery of a Cape Girardeau, Missouri convenience store. Police are looking for 20-year-old Dustin W. Durbin. They say he robbed the West Cape Rock Amerimart Sunday night.

  • Yarmuth announces he'll run for another term

    Updated: Tue Jun 18, 2013 3:47 PM

    The only Democrat left in Kentucky's congressional delegation says he will run for re-election next year. U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth sent an email to supporters Tuesday announcing he'll seek a fifth term in 2014.

  • Quinn, lawmakers plan pension talks into July

    Updated: Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:23 PM

    Gov. Pat Quinn and lawmakers are working on a new plan to solve the state's $97 billion pension crisis that involves forming a bipartisan committee and reconvening the Legislature again in July.

  • SIU president says budget remaining stable

    Updated: Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:23 PM

    Southern Illinois University President Glenn Poshard says the school has met a budget milestone.

  • Mayfield man dies after rollover crash

    Updated: Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:21 AM

    A Mayfield man is dead after a rollover crash Monday night.

  • Yahoo discloses number of US govt data requests

    Updated: Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:52 AM

    Yahoo is the latest company to disclose how many requests for user data it has received from U.S. government agencies, putting the number between 12,000 and 13,000 in the six months that ended on May 31.

  • Boehner: No way to get immigration bill to House floor without GOP majority support

    Updated: Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:31 AM

    Under pressure from House conservatives opposed to comprehensive immigration reform, House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday, "I don't see any way of bringing an immigration bill to the floor that doesn't have majority support of Republicans."

  • List of Illinois counties OK with concealed guns grows

    Updated: Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:04 AM

    The list of Illinois counties where prosecutors have decided not to prosecute people for carrying concealed weapons is growing.

  • NSA director defends surveillance program

    Updated: Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:13 AM

    The head of the National Security Agency is telling Congress that the government's sweeping surveillance programs have foiled some 50 terrorist plots around the world.

  • Ex-hitman describes more killings in Bulger trial

    Updated: Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:08 AM

    Former hitman John Martorano has described more killings as he testifies for a second day in the racketeering trial of James "Whitey" Bulger in Boston.

  • Obama hints Bernanke likely to leave Fed in January

    Updated: Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:06 AM

    President Barack Obama has given the clearest signal yet that Chairman Ben Bernanke will likely leave the Federal Reserve when his term ends in January.

  • Police: More than 1 may have had role in slaying

    Updated: Tue Jun 18, 2013 9:56 AM

    A Kentucky State Police spokesman says it appears more than one person was involved in the ambush slaying of a Bardstown, Kentucky police officer.

  • G-8 agrees plan to promote Syrian peace talks

    Updated: Tue Jun 18, 2013 9:54 AM

    The leaders of major industrial nations including the U.S. and Russia say they are united in wanting a negotiated and peaceful end to the Syrian civil war that will produce a government "under a top leadership that inspires public confidence."

  • US to begin meetings with Taliban

    Updated: Tue Jun 18, 2013 9:29 AM

    American officials say U.S. representatives will begin formal meetings with the Taliban in a few days at the group's new office opening in Qatar.

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