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It is estimated that more than 40,000 pets die of smoke inhalation each year in house fires.

Illinois College student Samuel Willard was awakened by a pounding on the door of his home on a winter's night in 1843.

It appears that the gift of masks specially designed for animals came to the Jacksonville Fire Department just in time.

The Festival of Trees and Wreaths will feature more than 25 designer trees and 43 wreaths, plus several swags and centerpieces this year, organizers said.

Trick-or-treaters will be allowed to go door to door begging for candy both Friday and Saturday nights in Jacksonville, South Jacksonville and Pittsfield.

Just in time for Halloween, South Jacksonville author Vince Churchill has written something he promises will frighten just about anyone.

Two to three inches of rain over the past two days closed highways and caused flood warnings to be issued for some Illinois River towns.

For, um, many Journal-Courier readers, like, the word "whatever" is the most annoying one around.

No one was injured when John S. Westa s .380-caliber Keltec pistol discharged at 7:45 p.m. Saturday in Room 205 of the hotel at 2650 Planet, said Salina Deputy Police Chief Carson Mansfield.

Who: Elaine Johnson Kent, formerly of Kansas CityAge: 75When and how she died: Sept.

A Jacksonville motel is being accused of failing to pay taxes on its visitors, costing the city more than $12,500. A lawsuit filed Wednesday in Morgan County Circuit Court contends Turf Investors, which owns Country Hearth Inn at 1709 W. Morton Ave., failed to pay taxes from December to August.

Let me preface this story from Harmony France with a great Actor Horror Story of my own when I was in college, acting at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, IL.

A Greene County man was re-sentenced to prison Thursday for violating probation in a 2008 convenience store holdup.

A penny might not go far these days, but a million could pack a punch for Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Illinois.

Three Jacksonville juveniles were arrested Friday in two burglaries in the city earlier in the week.

A former All-American football player must now register as a sex offender. Steven Ballinger, 29, was sentenced to 2 1 2 years probation after admitting to having sex with a 12-year-old girl and filming the act.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 12:25 p.m. Students at the Illinois School for the Deaf in Jacksonville deal with a language barrier every day.

First Christian Church of Jacksonville is putting words into actions. Church members are in the midst of a series of sermons focusing on giving back to the community.

Heather Marie Perry and Benjamin Rhodes Brulet, both of Raleigh, were united in marriage on May 23, 2009, at the Church of the Epiphany in Blowing Rock.

A free one-day conference for central Illinois families of children ages birth to 21 who are deaf or partially deaf is scheduled for Saturday, Nov.