This shotgun method of firing off all sirens, all at once, created a little confusion recently with some residents commenting ...

As Illinois prisons face continued risk of substance exposure and staff assaults, State Sen. Terri Bryant, R-Murphysboro, is once again calling for change in the Illinois Department of Corrections.

Rummaging through my voluminous archives the other night, I came across the front page of the Decatur Herald on Sept. 4, 1962. In huge type, the headline across the top of the page proclaimed ...