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Football scores from across central and southern Illinois, Missouri

Friday night's action on the gridiron has concluded. Teams from across central and southern Illinois, and parts of Missouri are now preparing for next week's competition. Here are the scores from Friday, September 17: Apollo Mattoon 20, Effingham 14 Mahomet-Seymour 53, Lincoln 22 Taylorville 55, Mount Zion 14 Big 12 Normal West 14, Bloomington 10 Champaign Central 1, Urbana 0, forfeit Peoria 1, (Peoria) Manual 0, forfeit Black Diamond Sesser-Valier/Waltonville 61, Edwards County 7 Carmi-White County 30, Christopher-Zeigler-Royalton 0 Fairfield 52, […]

todaySeptember 18, 2021

Illinois

Interstate 255 closing at midnight as a result of construction

COLLINSVILLE (Heartland Newsfeed) -- The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) announced in a press release Friday that due to the closure of Interstate 255 for multiple phases of road construction, motorists should prepare for longer commute times and traffic pattern changes. While the close is not officially official until 12:01 a.m. Saturday morning, Feb. 1, it shouldn't be too late to begin preparations for planning alternative routes, which you can do by accessing the project website. The first phase of […]

todayJanuary 31, 2020

Flooding flood floodwaters Pere Marquette Youth Center Grafton

Illinois

Rising flood waters forces Pere Marquette juvenile facility to transfer services

GRAFTON/SPRINGFIELD (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Rising flood waters along the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers in Jersey County is prompting the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice (IDJJ) to transfer operations from the Pere Marquette Youth Center near Grafton to the Alton Mental Health Center temporarily. While there are no issues with the facility itself, road closures as a result of flooding will hinder access to the facility, according to a joint press release from the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and IDJJ released […]

todayMay 2, 2019

Illinois 157 Hamel road construction Independence Day holiday

Business & Lifestyle

IDOT: Illinois 157 to be closed at Silver Creek near Hamel

HAMEL (Heartland Newsfeed) -- In a press release made available Monday, the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) announced that work will begin next week along Illinois Route 157 at Silver Creek near Hamel in IDOT's District 8. Weather permitting, work is set to begin next Wednesday, May 1, which will result in the closure of both lanes in this area, as crews work to reconstruct a box culvert. Detours will be posted. Northbound and southbound traffic which would regularly take […]

todayApril 23, 2019

Roberts murder

Illinois

Couple enters guilty pleas in Jersey County for first-degree murder of child

JERSEYVILLE (Heartland Newsfeed) -- A couple arrested in relation to a death of their son entered guilty pleas for first-degree murder in Jersey County court Wednesday. Ben Goetten, Jersey County State's Attorney, stated that Georgena L. and Michael L. Roberts entered their pleas of guilty in relation to the death of their six-year-old son Liam last November. Goetten and prosecutors revealed that Liam was "starved to death" and upon his death, weighed less than 20 pounds, well below normal weight […]

todayNovember 7, 2018

Illinois

Cahokia Mounds to host Mississippian conference Saturday

COLLINSVILLE (Heartland Newsfeed) -- A conference covering the cultural tradition of the ancient Mississippian tribes will take place this coming weekend. The state historic site at Cahokia Mounds is hosting the conference Saturday, July 28, with kickoff at 8:30 a.m. The event's open to the public, with a $5 registration fee at the door of the Interpretive Center auditorium. The Mississippian tribes lasted four centuries in the Midwestern United States, later migrating southbound. As a result of their southbound migrations, large […]

todayJuly 22, 2018

Illinois

Swastikas painted on 200 headstones in Illinois, suspect arrested

 GLEN CARBON (UPI) -- Police in southwestern Illinois arrested a man suspected of vandalizing cemetery headstones with swastikas. Nearly 200 headstones were found spray-painted Saturday morning, less than two days before Memorial Day. "They also painted swastikas on our old office building and on two of our family estate mausoleums," Mark Johnson, grounds superintendent at the cemetery, told the Belleville News-Democrat. The vandalism took place in a cemetery in Glen Carbon, a small town located 19 miles northeast of St. Louis. […]

todayMay 28, 2018

Illinois

Person of interest, now suspect, in Alton double homicide taken into custody

ALTON (Heartland Newsfeed) -- A person of interest stemming from a double homicide which took place in Alton Acres Monday night has been confirmed to be a suspect and is currently in custody. 35-year-old Vincent Gordon of Alton was taken into custody early Wednesday after law enforcement from various departments utilized loudspeakers and flashbangs -- small non-lethal explosives that cause temporary disorientation and loss of sight -- while at Gordon's residence on the 900 block of Easton. Gordon has been […]

todayMay 23, 2018

Business & Lifestyle

Proposed FARM Act means less regulation for Illinois farmers

SPRINGFIELD/WASHINGTON (Illinois News Network) -- The proposed Fair Agricultural Reporting Method (FARM) Act gives farmers one less regulation to follow and one less burden to bear. Under the FARM Act, which was recently introduced in the U.S. Senate, farmers nationwide would be exempt from having to report emissions from the natural process of manure breaking down on their land and one expert said that’s a good thing. Tasha Bunting, the assistant director of Commodities and Livestock for the Illinois Farm Bureau, […]

todayMarch 5, 2018

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