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MARION, Ill. (AP) — Authorities are investigating after skeletal remains were found at a wildlife refuge in southern Illinois. The Williamson County Sheriff’s Office is investigating with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Illinois State Police and the county coroner. The remains were found

  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Four hunters from Indiana have pled guilty and paid fines in a southern Illinois poaching case. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources says in a recent news release that the four hunters pleaded guilty to unlawful use of a rifle. They are accused of deer

  BERLIN (AP) — German officials are defending their preparations for flooding in the face of the raging torrents last week that caught many people by surprise and left over 190 people dead in Western Europe. But they concede that they will need to learn lessons from the disaster. Efforts

  CHICAGO (AP) — A Florida man who breached the U.S. Senate chamber carrying a Trump campaign flag is scheduled to become the first Jan. 6 rioter sentenced for a felony. The hearing Monday in Washington will help set a benchmark for punishment in similar cases. Prosecutors want Paul Allard

  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to host King Abdullah II of Jordan, a meeting that comes at one of the most difficult moments of the Jordanian leader’s 22-year rule and at a pivotal moment in the Middle East for Biden. Abdullah arrives at the White House on Monday

BLY, Ore. (AP) — Erratic winds and parched Oregon forests added to the dangerous for firefighters on Monday as they battled the largest wildfire in the United States. The Bootleg Fire is considered one of the largest in modern Oregon history and is burning an area about the size of Los

  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Amtrak rail passenger service, significantly reduced during the COVID-19 pandemic, will resume full service on Monday. The Illinois Department of Transportation announced last week that the full pre-pandemic schedule will return with trains between Chicago and

  HICKORY HILLS, Ill. (AP) — Authorities are investigating after four people died and two others were injured in a single-vehicle crash in suburban Chicago. Police in Hickory Hills say officers responded to a traffic accident around 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Two people were pronounced dead at

  CHICAGO – The Illinois State Police say 2 people are uninjured after their vehicle was struck by gunfire on the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago.  Police say the shooting occurred around 3 am Wednesday near 95th street, and the driver, a 29-year-old Dekalb woman, was not struck, and

A woman in her 70’s was the 314th Covid death in LaSalle County since the pandemic began in March of 2020.  The LaSalle County Health Department released the latest weekly data on Friday, and reported 30 new cases in the past week.   Unlike the early days of the virus, the latest cases