Carbondale News

A black man from southern Illinois who was sentenced to 85 years in prison will get a new trial after his attorney complained about racial remarks made by the prosecutor.

Administrators are making counselors available to students at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale after a student died in a weekend traffic crash.

Beginning with Father's Day , there will be more and more gatherings since it is summertime.

At least one person suffered an injury during a multi-vehicle accident in Carbondale.

Illinois university employees would pay more toward their pensions and receive annual retirement-pay increases tied to inflation in a reform plan the Senate president supports.

Joe Adams of Clinton has joined Prairie Engineers of Illinois as a Professional Land Surveyor and civil engineer intern.

Lose track of your computer lately? We didn’t think so. Most people don’t.

Pike Press received nine awards recently at the annual Southern Illinois Editorial Association newspaper contest, including recognition as one of the best large weeklies in downstate Illinois.

In regard to "Vision needed to get us off our laurels" column on the Opinion Page June 1 by David Coker .

The only forensic crime lab in Southern Illinois is scheduled to close by this time next year.

One man is dead and another injured after an early morning traffic crash in Jackson County.

Fred Paul Bodziuch, 62, of Streator, died Sunday evening, June 9, at OSF St. Francis Medical Center, Peoria.

Southern Illinois University misplaced more than 250 computers in the last fiscal year, and its East St. Louis center has failed to meet minimum federal standards for Head Start, according to a report from the state auditor general.

Police in Carbondale are looking for a man that they say is using multiple credit cards stolen from a purse.

Officials in southern Illinois' Williamson County have opted to build a new $266,000 morgue rather than renew a lease on a current site on federal property.

A state audit of Southern Illinois University has found it lacking in some areas: too few computers in Carbondale and Edwardsville, and too few special-needs children in East St Louis.

Larry Johnson's passion for life is far easier to express in his new art studio in Geneva than it may have been during his 31 years as an IBM executive.

Marshall University's School of Music and Theatre will host its 15th Jazz-MU-Tazz festival, a jazz camp for high school students, June 10 to 15 on the Huntington campus.

Southern Illinois University in Carbondale has taken delivery of three new Flight Training Devices from Frasca International.

Wayne County Coroner Jimmy Taylor said 37-year-old Kevin L. Kimmell was about six miles west of Johnsonville when his vehicle ran off the road and overturned several times.