Salem News

By JACK CLARK jackclark@mvn.net OK. Now you've got my attention! All it takes is for some local musical legends to decide that they want to play together again.

The Illinois Department of Veteransa Affairs hosted a Helping Our Hometown Heroes event today at the Marion County Savings Bank in Salem for local Veterans, their families, and friends.

Jeffrey Riddle, 50, 181 W. Seventh St., was northbound on North Ellsworth at 10:33 a.m. Wednesday and had his turn signal on to turn left onto West Third.

Mike Phillips stood in the background as a group of Russian livestock officials listened to a presentation by representatives of the Aristocrat Angus Ranch west of here.

Having little drinkable water and marching along dusty Arkansas roads in oppressive September heat took a serious toll on Dr.

Meet Jeremy Devor, a technician with an associate degree in engineering, who lives in Salem, Illinois, a town of about 8,000 people 254 miles south of Chicago.

Questions remain unanswered, but a man who grew up as a talented student-athlete in the Iron Range town of Buhl - before becoming a convicted murderer - has been released from an Illinois prison after serving 17 years of a life sentence.

Oregon police have charged a man with drunken driving after he called 911 to report his marijuana as stolen but the dispatcher couldn't understand him because he was vomiting while on the road.

Performance: Walt Disney's musical "Beauty and the Beast" will be on stage at the PM&L Theatre, 77 Main St.

In what would be a major project along Homer Adams Parkway, a hotel chain owner wants to demolish part of a closed motel, renovate what remains and build an addition.

BELLEVILLE> Diocese settles suit - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Belleville said Friday it has settled a lawsuit for $1.2 million against one of its priests who was accused of molesting an altar boy at St.

A southern Illinois man has his childhood friends to thank for saving his life. Firefighters pulled the 20-year-old man out of a burning house in Salem, Illinois on Monday.

William H. Faberman, 40, has been lodged in the Wayne County Jail on preliminary charges of anhydrous ammonia tampering and aggravated fleeing and eluding.

Kentucky is no longer top dog when it comes to coonhounds. Illinois has landed the Professional Kennel Club's annual competition to determine the world's best coonhound, a 10-day event that had been held in Kentucky for nearly two decades.

One Southern Illinois community is preparing for a sudden population spike of nearly fifty percent.

From the Chicago Tribune : Illinois has landed the Professional Kennel Club's world coonhound championships, a 10-day event that had been held in Kentucky for nearly two decades.

Illinois has landed the Professional Kennel Club's world coonhound championships, a 10-day event that had been held in Kentucky for nearly two decades.

According to Illinois State Police, two people are dead and a third was flown to a St.

The sound of music "echoed" once again from Public School Stadium this weekend. Hundreds of spectators turned out Saturday to watch six bands take part in Echoes off the River at Public School Stadium, sponsored by Alton High School Marching 100 and Alton Band and Orchestra Builders.

"Serving at Oil Belt Christian Service Camp in Flora. I was there for four days and it was a great experience; great kids.