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updated: Tue Jul 08, 2008 06:16 pm

Marion News

Local news for Marion, IL continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.

12 hrs ago | Mt. Vernon Register-News

New veterans clinic opens at Doctors Park

By TESA CULLI tesa.culli@register-news.com MT. VERNON - The very first outpatient veterans clinic in the nation opened in a basement office at Doctors Park in Mt.

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Related Topix: Mount Vernon, IL, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, John Shimkus

Sun Jul 06, 2008

Mt. Vernon Register-News

Downtown accident snarls traffic

A three-vehicle accident with injuries has snarled traffic downtown for those attending tonight's fireworks display at the airport.

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Related Topix: Mount Vernon, IL

Sat Jul 05, 2008

Mt. Vernon Register-News

Downtown accident snarls traffic

A three-vehicle accident with injuries has snarled traffic downtown for those attending tonight's fireworks display at the airport.

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Related Topix: Mount Vernon, IL

Fri Jul 04, 2008

Marion Living News

July Baseball Schedule

Click here to support our sponsors! Happy 4th of July The new issue of Marion Living Magazine is available in the community Just in time for the Holiday... Visit the Illinois Centre Mall to pick up the July ...

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Related Topix: United States Penitentiary, Marion, Federal Prisons, The Fighting Seabees, War Movies, Drama, Action, US Navy, NB Pearl Harbor, US Military

WQAD-TV Moline

Two men charged in Herrin slaying

Rose Lawn cemetery owner fails to pay back victims Rose Lawn Memorial Estates may have been targeting veterans and their families when it began selling pre-need burial items without a license three years ago.

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Related Topix: Herrin, IL, Williamson County, IL, Chicago Metro

Thu Jul 03, 2008

Mt. Vernon Register-News

Early morning house fire being treated as crime scene

By TESA CULLI and KANDACE MCCOY Register-News MT. VERNON - Police are investigating a house fire after officials were called during the overnight/early morning hours to a residence.

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Related Topix: Mount Vernon, IL

Tue Jul 01, 2008

Magic 95.1

PCB Landfill

Did the Williamson County Board jump the gun in announcing that the Illinois PCB accepted the county's petition of review concerning the Marion Ridge Landfill? The Polution Control Board says "yes". However, if ...

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Related Topix: Williamson County, IL

Sun Jun 29, 2008

WPSD-TV Paducah

Big Truck and SUV Sales Slowing

If you're looking to unload that gas guzzler so you can save money at the pump, we got some bad news for you; it's a buyers market for large SUV's and trucks.

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Related Topix: Auto Dealers

Fri Jun 27, 2008

Recycling Today

Quincy Recycle Paper Snaps up Central States

Quincy Recycle Paper, a paper recycling firm headquartered in Quincy, Ill., has acquired Central States Fiber, a Shelbyville, Ind., based paper recycling firm.

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Related Topix: Quincy, IL

Wed Jun 25, 2008

WPSD-TV Paducah

Police Looking for Credit Card Thief

Police need your help to find a man who apparently went on a shopping spree with a stolen credit card.

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Mon Jun 23, 2008

KFVS12

Man Dead in Train Crash

One man is dead and another injured after a train-truck crash in Marion, Illinois.

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Related Topix: Williamson County, IL

Sat Jun 21, 2008

WPSD-TV Paducah

VA Management Under Fire

A new report on working conditions at Veterans Medical Center in Marion, Illinois says hospital management created a hostile work environment and intimidated employees to keep them quiet.

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Thu Jun 19, 2008

WTHI-TV Terre Haute

VA chief to visit troubled vets hospital in Marion

Veterans Affairs Secretary James Peake says he'll go to southern Illinois to visit a VA hospital where surgeries were halted last year after a spike in patient deaths.

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Related Topix: US House of Representatives, US Politics, Jerry Costello, Democrat, US News

Tue Jun 17, 2008

STLtoday

Some with breast cancer opt for surgery

Marilyn Eiceman, center, of Marion, Ill., learns from her doctor that she is recovering from a mastecomy without any complications last week.

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Related Topix: Oncology, Medicine, Breast Cancer, Health

Wed Jun 11, 2008

Southern Illinoisan

Authorities: Man's body found in water-filled strip pit

HERRIN, Ill. - Authorities in Williamson County are investigating the discovery of a 68-year-old Herrin man's body inside a pickup truck in a water-filled strip pit.

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Related Topix: Herrin, IL, Williamson County, IL, Energy, IL

Southern Illinoisan

West Frankfort council approves plan for TIF district

City council members voted unanimously Tuesday night to accept a redevelopment plan and project for a second tax increment financing district, which is tentatively set to be located in West Frankfort's downtown ...

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Related Topix: West Frankfort, IL, Cahokia, IL

Tue Jun 10, 2008

WPSD-TV Paducah

Sunday Liquor Sales Softened

Restaurants in Marion, Illinois are selling alcohol June 8th on Sunday for the first time in years.

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Related Topix: Restaurant Management

Sun Jun 08, 2008

Southern Illinoisan

OfficeWare merges with Haley Office Equipment

A longtime Marion business owner has joined forces with a larger office supply company.

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Related Topix: Manhattan, IL

Sat Jun 07, 2008

Southern Illinoisan

Four fired as Banterra Bank realigns mortgage division

Four fired as Banterra Bank realigns mortgage division THE SOUTHERN MARION - Dixi Blackford, her husband, Rod, and two other Banterra Bank employees who worked in the mortgage division learned Monday they had ...

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Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Marketing

Fri Jun 06, 2008

Southern Illinoisan

Investigation continues in cold-case murder of Herrin woman

The nude body of Regina Oliver Costellia, 19, of Herrin was found dangling by the arm off Market Street Bridge in Marion on Sunday, June 3, 1979.

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Related Topix: Du Quoin, IL, Herrin, IL

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