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Alton Steel Inc.

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BREAKING: Alton Steel to cease operations

ALTON -- Alton Steel Inc. has announced that it will cease operations effective the week of January 26, 2026. The closure will impact approximately 253 employees, plus contractors and vendors. The company will work with state workforce development agencies, local employers, and other regional manufacturers to assist employees in finding new employment opportunities. This would include outreach to the U.S. Steel facility in Granite City. Fortunately, all employee 401(k) accounts remain secure and accessible. After nearly 25 years of steel […]

todayJanuary 26, 2026 217 10 10

South Africa

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Armed gunmen open fire in South Africa tavern, killing 9 people

BEKKERSDAL, South Africa (UPI) -- Nearly a dozen armed gunmen stormed a tavern in South Africa early Sunday and opened fire at random, killing at least nine people, reports said. Nearly a dozen assailants arrived around 1 a.m. local time Sunday at the KwaNoxolo tavern in Bekkersdal, some 30 miles west of Johannesburg, in a white van and silver sedan, The New York Times reported. The men then opened fire at random at the people inside, Police Captain Tintswalo Sibeko said […]

todayDecember 21, 2025 138 6 7

office close Wednesday New Years Day

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Media group office, newsroom closed Wednesday

Due to the New Year's Day holiday, the Heartland Media Group of Central Illinois & Eastern Missouri offices at 107 W. State St. in Nokomis will be closed all day. Newsroom operations for Heartland Newsfeed will be limited to online only, meaning news items can be emailed to [email protected] all day. There will be no Amazon HUB delivery services Wednesday due to the holiday. All operations will resume Thursday, January 2 at 10 a.m. The Heartland Media Group of Central […]

todayDecember 31, 2024 188

Lee Enterprises

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Lee Enterprises under fire in privacy lawsuit

DAVENPORT, Iowa (Iowa Capital Dispatch) -- The Iowa-based newspaper chain Lee Enterprises is facing a potential class-action lawsuit alleging it has shared readers’ personal information with Facebook in violation of federal law. Lee publishes newspapers and other media content in 77 markets across 26 states, including Illinois' The Pantagraph in Bloomington, Herald and Review in Decatur, and the Journal-Gazette and Times-Courier in Mattoon and Charleston, and in Missouri, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The lawsuit, filed this week in U.S. District […]

todayDecember 29, 2022 104

Election Day

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Election Day programming notes

NOKOMIS -- For the first time in our existence, we will be doing live election night coverage of tomorrow's general election. However, coverage, as it relates to our website, may be somewhat delayed. The live coverage will actually be on Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network. The live election night coverage will be courtesy of the syndicated radio program Democracy Now! The election night special will kick off at 8 p.m. Central time, preempting the final hour of Free Talk Live. It […]

todayNovember 7, 2022 40

Moultrie County Courthouse

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Moultrie County Clerk resigns

SULLIVAN -- Moultrie County's county clerk has resigned, according to confirmation from the office Friday. Georgia England's term was set to conclude in November. In addition, the Democratic official was not seeking reelection in the November general election. England submitted her resignation during the county board meeting Thursday, effective immediately. Chief deputy clerk Pam Wittkowski will assume the daily functions of the office. This will be in place until an interim clerk is appointed or elected by the county board, […]

todayJuly 15, 2022 137

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Twitter is down in major system outage

SAN FRANCISCO -- For most viewers, the social media platform Twitter is down and experiencing a major widespread outage. Issues started with the service at around 7:05 a.m. Central time. Many users are reporting "over capacity" error messages and "This page is down" errors. The outage issues affecting Twitter are on the web, mobile, and on the TweetDeck app. Thousands of reports of issues with Twitter are active complaints on Downdetector. However, Twitter’s own status page claims “all systems operational.” Despite […]

todayJuly 14, 2022 52

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