 07/02/09 District Little League tournaments in the 9-10 and 10-11 age groups begin this weekend. Elma will host the 9-10 tourney beginning Saturday. The double-elimination tournament runs through July 9 (with an if-necessary second title game planned for July 10).
 07/01/09 After an encouraging season in 2008, the Freeburg swim team hopes to continue its slow but steady climb toward the top of the Midwest Swim Conference standings.
 06/18/09 Everyone knows the economy's been a little rocky lately, with many houses going into foreclosure. Th...
 05/25/09 The Edwardsville Tigers were picture-perfect Saturday at Gordon Moore Park in Alton.
 05/24/09 JEFFERSON CITY -- Grandpa was right. Last year, when Nic Ford endured a confidence-rattling fall in his second hurdles event of the season, it was his grandfather who lifted him up.
 05/24/09 First Second, 288 pp., $29.95No matter how much I read about Afghanistan, the experiences of a population that has been enmeshed in war for decades continues to surprise me. The Photographer an absorbing graphic memoir mixing photography with comic art...
 05/24/09 WASHINGTON - Questions about whether Roland Burris is feeling at home in Washington may have been answered Friday when Illinois' appointed senator submitted earmark requests totaling more than $8 billion.
05/20/09 Tenancy at will is a type of informal rental agreement that is similar to a month to month agreement...
05/19/09 The Edwardsville boys tennis team extended its string of Southwestern Conference titles, but not without a challenge from Belleville West.
05/19/09 This is a common question asked by many home sellers across the nation today. During this challengin...
 05/17/09 Boys Track Honor Roll 3200 Relay 1. Murphysboro 8:17.70 2. Anna-Jonesboro 8:33.30 3. Marion 8:35.00 4. Sparta 8:36.70 5. Mount Vernon 8:48.50 6. Centralia 8:49.00 7. Eldorado 8:50.77 8. Benton 8:51.40 9. Carbondale 8:52.40 10. Nashville 8:53.00 11. West Frankfort 8:55.00 12. Herrin 9:03.00 13. Vienna 9:09.10 14. Pinckneyville 9:30.00 15. Steeleville 9:31.00 1600 Relay 1. Sparta 3:28.80 2. ...
 05/17/09 The Northwest Christian baseball team finally got a chance to play its district tournament games - albeit five days late.
05/17/09 The Clinton County Baseball League will open its 65th season today with games in Germantown, Trenton and Beckemeyer.
 05/17/09 Since 1962, the once booming coal mining town of Centralia in northeastern Pennsylvania has been on fire. A routine trash fire spread to an underground seam of anthracite and could not be contained.
 05/07/09 Rita Moreno and Robert Culp will take part in a benefit performance of A. R. Gurney's Love Letters June 6.
 04/24/09 College men's basketball CLOUD COUNTY BEN STEINLAGE, a 6-foot-5 200-pound forward out of Centralia, led the Panthers to a 21-7 record and a third-place finish in state while averaging 21 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists per game. read more
 04/24/09 Dylan McKinnon's big offensive night helped Pleasant Hill turn back visiting Unity in a non-conference baseball game on Thursday night.
 04/24/09 Daily Sun sports Opening night for the 2009 season ended early at the Beatrice Speedway Friday as a rain shower made the track too slick for competition midway through the feature events.
04/22/09 After being one of the best-and one of the youngest-boys tennis teams in the area a year ago, Belleville West hopes to be even better this season.
04/12/09 There are many good reasons to hire a professional home inspector to inspect a home you are hoping t...
 04/08/09 Carbon dioxide emissions from U.S. power plants decreased last year, reversing a long upward trend. But the supposedly "green" Northwest bucked the national trend for the greenhouse gas.
 04/04/09 Mount Olive took home a pair of wins on Saturday, defeating the Coker Cobras 14-3 in game one and 4-2 in game two. The wins improve the Trojans to 22-16 overall, and 8-6 in the conference, while Coker falls to 17-19 on the year and 4-11 in the conference.
04/01/09 More than a year of closed-door negotiations has produced an agreement to cut mercury and regional haze pollution from one of the two big coal-fired power plants in the Northwest.
 03/26/09 The superintendent of an Orange County school district has postponed all nighttime activities this week because of concern over an earthquake swarm near the San Andreas Fault. | 
