GALATIA - Ann Cluck certainly did not intend to start a business when she planted her first bed of daylilies back in 1996. "It was a hobby that got out of control," she said with a laugh. "Then I started

The Southern A Willisville man was pronounced dead at 8:33 p.m. Friday in St. Joseph Memorial Hospital of Murphysboro after suffering multiple traumatic injuries about 45 minutes earlier in a single-vehicle car crash on the Ava Blacktop south of WXAN

Crab Orchard - Bass anglers are still reporting good success on various baits. Fish are still holding over shoreline cover. Crappie anglers are taking decent numbers of fish, but fish are running small. Crappie are holding around cover 6-8 feet

MARION - For the first time this season, Southern Illinois is in sole possession of first place in the Frontier League's West Division.

The Associated Press ST. LOUIS - St. Louis manager Tony La Russa wasn't too optimistic as the Cardinals entered the ninth inning trailing the Chicago Cubs by two runs Saturday afternoon.

The man, the myth, the legend. Any combination of those words could describe longtime official and McLeansboro mayor Dick Deitz, who will begin his 52nd year in the black and white this fall.

MERMET - Concentration and repetition. That's Jackie Caudle's simple recipe to reach the top of the competitive archery world.

SPARTA - Pautler's Barber Shop is more than just a place for the guys to get a haircut - it's an information center.

INA - The simple text message sent from half a world away was brief and to the point: "got 2nd. made olympic team. pass it along."

CARBONDALE - Internationally renowned tenor David Thomas of Newark, N.J. has performed with the likes of Luciano Pavarotti and Plácido Domingo since he left Carbondale more than 30 years earlier.

CARBONDALE - Since April of 2002 the Feed My Sheep Community Kitchen at Bethel AME Church has made about 80,000 meals for the poor and hungry. But, through that time, one item has been conspicuously absent from every menu.

You can take the woman out of Brooklyn, but you can't take Brooklyn out of the woman. Maggie Flanagan, who has been president of the Southern Illinois Community Foundation in Marion for the last 10 years and was a member

GALATIA - Ann Cluck certainly did not intend to start a business when she planted her first bed of daylilies back in 1996. "It was a hobby that got out of control," she said with a laugh. "Then I started

MARION - Celia Robertson says her House 2 Home business in Marion is growing and will soon expand into Cape Girardeau.

When someone devotes 35 years of his life working on a project, you'd think he'd have some kind of plan drafted or goal in mind.

The Southern Four individuals have been arrested in connection with a series of thefts and burglaries in the Harrison area, north of Murphysboro.

JOHNSTON CITY - Connie Oliver wants to give young extreme sport enthusiasts a skateboard park if anyone wants to help with the effort.

DU QUOIN - Dale Spencer believes the outpouring of support for recycling in Du Quoin will create a cleaner environment for his six grandchildren and all other future generations.