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  • Wednesday, February 22 2012 4:00 PM EST2012-02-22 21:00:08 GMT
    Gov. Pat Quinn has officially announced his proposal to close 14 major state facilities, including two prisons.
  • Wednesday, February 22 2012 12:38 PM EST2012-02-22 17:38:19 GMT
    A new count shows there were slightly more bald eagles in Illinois this January compared with January of last year.
  • Wednesday, February 22 2012 12:32 PM EST2012-02-22 17:32:45 GMT
    A Royalton man accused of shooting his father after his father allegedly ran over his daughter with a pickup truck will not face charges.
  • Wednesday, February 22 2012 10:55 AM EST2012-02-22 15:55:36 GMT
    Marion School Board members voted in Plan B Budget Reduction Plan.  The total deficit reduction should equal just over $2 million.
  • Wednesday, February 22 2012 10:47 AM EST2012-02-22 15:47:08 GMT
    Keeping a city's budget balanced, and still keeping up with city projects and maintenance on buildings can be a struggle. But Harrisburg's city leaders have figured out how to do both without spending a dime.
  • Wednesday, February 22 2012 9:44 AM EST2012-02-22 14:44:58 GMT
    Illinois has a plan to change the way it evaluates the progress of schools and students. The state is submitting it to the U.S. Department of Education.
  • Wednesday, February 22 2012 9:40 AM EST2012-02-22 14:40:48 GMT
    Wildlife researchers say a fungus rarely seen in the wild is killing southern Illinois rattlesnakes that already are in decline.
  • Wednesday, February 22 2012 5:37 AM EST2012-02-22 10:37:15 GMT
    Good Morning Today is Wednesday, February 22 For many of us today will possibly be the nicest so far this year. Mild and sunny is what Brian is hinting at this morning. However, this morning we are seeing
  • Tuesday, February 21 2012 6:17 PM EST2012-02-21 23:17:44 GMT
    Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn wants to close two prisons, including a "super max" institution at Tamms.
  • Tuesday, February 21 2012 5:50 PM EST2012-02-21 22:50:33 GMT
    The Jackson County Sheriff's Office is investigating the reported drowning of a two-year-old boy on his family's property in rural Murphysboro.
  • Tuesday, February 21 2012 1:41 PM EST2012-02-21 18:41:45 GMT
    Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin says Republicans in the U.S. House should start over rather than push forward with a troubled bill on long-term funding for transportation.
  • Tuesday, February 21 2012 1:39 PM EST2012-02-21 18:39:21 GMT
    U.S. authorities say they've foiled a major debt-collecting scam that generated at least 8 million fraudulent calls from India since 2010 and bilked more than 10,000 victims all across the United States.
  • Tuesday, February 21 2012 12:52 PM EST2012-02-21 17:52:25 GMT
    Chester firefighters battled an early morning fire Monday after a man barricaded himself in his home and set it on fire.
  • Tuesday, February 21 2012 12:44 PM EST2012-02-21 17:44:03 GMT
    Police say a father is accused of running over his daughter with a vehicle in Hurst, then driving to Royalton where he was shot by his son.  The daughter and father have major injuries.  Police arrested the son.
  • Tuesday, February 21 2012 12:22 PM EST2012-02-21 17:22:33 GMT
    A Poplar Bluff man was injured in a truck tractor semi-trailer crash early Tuesday morning on Interstate 57 in Alexander County.
  • Tuesday, February 21 2012 11:29 AM EST2012-02-21 16:29:22 GMT
    Members of Illinois' congressional delegation are promoting changes to a U.S. House transportation bill they say would deprive the state of millions in highway funds and jeopardize Chicago's transit system.
  • Tuesday, February 21 2012 11:28 AM EST2012-02-21 16:28:03 GMT
    The Illinois Department of Transportation will host a two-day conference to bring together contractors and disadvantaged business enterprises such as minorities and firms owned by women.
  • Tuesday, February 21 2012 3:52 AM EST2012-02-21 08:52:28 GMT
    A 16-year-old boy is accused of stabbing his mother and his ex-girlfriend's sister, then leading police on a high speed chase Monday evening in Union County.
  • Monday, February 20 2012 9:47 PM EST2012-02-21 02:47:17 GMT
    Northern Illinois lawmakers have proposed new bills that would require Illinois handgun owners to register their guns and add a tax on ammunition.
  • Monday, February 20 2012 7:31 PM EST2012-02-21 00:31:18 GMT
    An airplane made an emergency landing Monday morning at the Southern Illinois Airport in Murphysboro after the landing gear malfunctioned.
  • Monday, February 20 2012 3:48 PM EST2012-02-20 20:48:31 GMT
    Gov. Pat Quinn says he's prepared to cut the state budget back to levels Illinois hasn't seen in more than four years.
  • Monday, February 20 2012 3:47 PM EST2012-02-20 20:47:37 GMT
    Gov. Pat Quinn says he deserves a better grade on his job-creation policies than the C given to him by the head of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce.
  • Monday, February 20 2012 11:03 AM EST2012-02-20 16:03:24 GMT
    The president of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce says he'd give Pat Quinn a C or C+ grade on Quinn's job-creation policies during his tenure as governor.
  • Sunday, February 19 2012 10:08 PM EST2012-02-20 03:08:56 GMT
    Friends & Family of Halylie Hines protest
    It's been one year ago today on February 19, 2011 that then 18-year-old Halylie Hines of Murphysboro was killed in a roll-over crash.  Now Halylie's family's is wanting some answers as to who was behind the wheel of the Jeep on the morning their daughter was killed.
  • Sunday, February 19 2012 8:34 PM EST2012-02-20 01:34:17 GMT
    Gov. Pat Quinn wants to invest $50 million in the state's scholarship program.
  • Sunday, February 19 2012 6:45 PM EST2012-02-19 23:45:26 GMT
    Gov. Pat Quinn has asked all the state's constitutional offices and some state agencies to slash their annual budgets by at least 9 percent, but won't say how he arrived at that figure.
  • The DuPage County Sheriff's Office says an off-duty police officer shot a person in a parking lot on Fermilab's property.
  • Authorities say one man is dead and two others injured after an early-morning accident near the campus of Northern Illinois University.
  • Sunday, February 19 2012 2:34 PM EST2012-02-19 19:34:10 GMT
    Gov. Pat Quinn has made a habit of bragging that Illinois increased exports last year by 30 percent. He cites it when questioned about a tide of business complaints about the state's economic climate.
  • Sunday, February 19 2012 2:32 PM EST2012-02-19 19:32:07 GMT
    Chicago is among the final stops of the North American tour of "Riverdance."
  • Sunday, February 19 2012 2:30 PM EST2012-02-19 19:30:49 GMT
    Gov. Pat Quinn is about to deliver his fourth and perhaps most anticipated budget proposal.
  • Sunday, February 19 2012 10:16 AM EST2012-02-19 15:16:06 GMT
    A Doniphan man faces DWI charges after a crash early Saturday morning.
  • Chicago's Field Museum has opened a rare display of mummies from its own collection. Many of them haven't been seen by the public since the World's Columbian Exposition, held in the city in 1893.
  • Chicago's McCormick Place convention center will hold an indoor 5K run this month to raise awareness and money for efforts to prevent heart disease.
  • Saturday, February 18 2012 11:58 PM EST2012-02-19 04:58:51 GMT
    It's been along time coming, but finally the new Williamson County Jail is ready to house prisoners.
  • Saturday, February 18 2012 9:46 PM EST2012-02-19 02:46:09 GMT
    It was a final goodbye to the general store in Grand Chain. Everything left inside Huebotter's General Merchandise was auctioned off Saturday.
  • Saturday, February 18 2012 8:36 PM EST2012-02-19 01:36:19 GMT
    A crash in downtown Carbondale sent a pedestrian to the hospital.
  • Saturday, February 18 2012 3:51 PM EST2012-02-18 20:51:10 GMT
    Carbondale Police are looking for four people accused of eating food at a business and leaving without paying for their food.
  • Saturday, February 18 2012 3:28 PM EST2012-02-18 20:28:41 GMT
    Carbondale Police arrested a man after a burglary and police chase on Feb. 15. Carbondale Police responded to a business burglary report at 3:47 a.m. on Feb. 15 in the 1300 block of East Mall Drive. The
  • Saturday, February 18 2012 3:00 PM EST2012-02-18 20:00:53 GMT
    Since World War II, only two men - both Democrats - have represented the congressional district that runs from the St. Louis suburbs to Illinois' southernmost tip.
  • Plans to sell state lottery tickets online have business groups and Illinois convenience store owners concerned about their sales.
  • State and local officials have organized an "energy fair" in Chicago to help homeowners learn services available to them for improving energy efficiency.
  • Friday, February 17 2012 7:44 PM EST2012-02-18 00:44:10 GMT
    A Perry County, Ill. man was arrested for violating probation and possessing meth.
  • Friday, February 17 2012 7:28 PM EST2012-02-18 00:28:31 GMT
    Republican lawmakers in a handful of states are opening another front in the war against President Obama's health care overhaul, seizing on the hot-button issue of birth control with bills that would allow insurance companies to ignore new federal rules requiring them to cover contraception.
  • Friday, February 17 2012 7:27 PM EST2012-02-18 00:27:10 GMT
    A half dozen pet owners have filed a lawsuit alleging a chain of Chicago-area pet stores sells puppies from what the suit alleges are "some of the most despicable and horrendous puppy mills in the Midwest."
  • Friday, February 17 2012 7:26 PM EST2012-02-18 00:26:00 GMT
    Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk has started walking exercises on a treadmill as he continues his recovery from a stroke in January.
  • Friday, February 17 2012 7:23 PM EST2012-02-18 00:23:00 GMT
    Cape Air ribbon cutting brings promise of more development and business openings in the future.
  • Friday, February 17 2012 6:42 PM EST2012-02-17 23:42:49 GMT
    Eriberto Perez was abducted from 430 West Palatine Road, Apartment 1 in Palatine Illinois last night, February,16 2012 at 8:30 p.m.
  • Friday, February 17 2012 6:09 PM EST2012-02-17 23:09:44 GMT
    The head of the Illinois Hospital Association says Gov. Pat Quinn's proposal to cut $2 billion from the Medicaid program is a blunt approach that would hurt the Illinois economy and cost 19,000 jobs.
  • Friday, February 17 2012 6:02 PM EST2012-02-17 23:02:43 GMT
    According to the Saline County, Illinois Sheriff's Office, Todd Fort is in the process of being released on Friday. The sexual assault case against former Saline County Chief Deputy Todd Fort came to an end in September 2011 with a guilty plea.
  • Friday, February 17 2012 6:01 PM EST2012-02-17 23:01:15 GMT
    It's that time of year again when many are thinking about taxes and that refund check. But experts say think twice when it comes to getting a refund anticipation loan.
  • Friday, February 17 2012 11:48 AM EST2012-02-17 16:48:22 GMT
    State police say a teenager was hit by a passing truck on Thursday evening.
  • Illinois officials are encouraging school children to participate in a contest by submitting artistic designs to decorate rain barrels.
  • The state of Illinois is calling all green thumbs.
  • Friday, February 17 2012 6:25 AM EST2012-02-17 11:25:58 GMT
    Good Morning Today is Friday, February 18 Be careful as you leave the house this morning, there's a chance you could run into some heavy fog according to Brian. Watch throughout The Breakfast Show to
  • Thursday, February 16 2012 11:26 PM EST2012-02-17 04:26:35 GMT
    Cell phones have become such a big part of our lives that many people feel incomplete if they don't have their phone with them.  Which begs the question, are phones becoming too important to us?
  • Thursday, February 16 2012 9:52 PM EST2012-02-17 02:52:45 GMT
    Three people have been arrested in connection with a home invasion shooting that left a husband and wife in critical condition.
  • Thursday, February 16 2012 8:42 PM EST2012-02-17 01:42:21 GMT
    As violence in Syria continues, Heartland couple waits for word from family near Homs, an area under siege.
  • Thursday, February 16 2012 7:57 PM EST2012-02-17 00:57:23 GMT
    Pinckneyville police say Wednesday night just before 11:30 p.m. an Elkville man came to an intersection at South Walnut and Grand Avenue and just kept on going.
  • Thursday, February 16 2012 7:41 PM EST2012-02-17 00:41:23 GMT
    They were put in place to help stop the production of meth. But ordinances in southeast Missouri are presenting a new problem for a number of counties in southern Illinois.
  • Thursday, February 16 2012 7:18 PM EST2012-02-17 00:18:26 GMT
    In just a few days a new jail is set to open in Heartland County. But amid the ribbon cutting swirls controversy around the future of food service at the Williamson County Jail. It all comes down who
  • Thursday, February 16 2012 4:45 PM EST2012-02-16 21:45:43 GMT
    The Ohio Valley Conference will split into divisions for men's and women's basketball for the 2012-13 season.
  • Thursday, February 16 2012 4:38 PM EST2012-02-16 21:38:53 GMT
    Gov. Pat Quinn says he'll propose closing "quite a few" state facilities in his budget address next week.
  • Thursday, February 16 2012 4:34 PM EST2012-02-16 21:34:08 GMT
    An Anna, Illinois man was ordered to spend the next several years behind bars stemming from a methamphetamine charge.
  • Thursday, February 16 2012 2:07 PM EST2012-02-16 19:07:43 GMT
    A published report says Sears is laying off 100 workers at its Illinois headquarters.
  • Thursday, February 16 2012 1:10 PM EST2012-02-16 18:10:06 GMT
    Illinois rural residents are being urged to participate in a new online survey about high-speed Internet usage that launched Wednesday.
  • Thursday, February 16 2012 9:53 AM EST2012-02-16 14:53:00 GMT
    Illinois home foreclosure activity rose 14 percent in January compared to the previous month as lenders resolve paperwork problems that had slowed the process.
  • Thursday, February 16 2012 9:50 AM EST2012-02-16 14:50:18 GMT
    Officials say fewer voters are registered in suburban Cook County than during the 2008 general election as the Feb. 21 deadline for registering approaches.
  • Wednesday, February 15 2012 9:38 PM EST2012-02-16 02:38:32 GMT
    Chicago's City Council is banning the sale of synthetic stimulants that mimic the effects of cocaine, Ecstasy and methamphetamines that are marketed as "bath salts."
  • Wednesday, February 15 2012 8:03 PM EST2012-02-16 01:03:47 GMT
    The Counties of Southern Illinois ( CSI) organization have announced that a petition for authorization to conduct a Regional Next Generation 911 Pilot Project was submitted to the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) on Friday, February 3, 2012.
  • Wednesday, February 15 2012 6:58 PM EST2012-02-15 23:58:23 GMT
    Social services agencies say they're seeing a greater need for foster homes in southern Illinois, but fewer people stepping up to become foster parents.
  • Wednesday, February 15 2012 6:55 PM EST2012-02-15 23:55:42 GMT
    Sprouts from the sandwich chain Jimmy John's have been linked to an outbreak of foodborne illness - again.
  • Wednesday, February 15 2012 6:09 PM EST2012-02-15 23:09:17 GMT
    Firefighters battled a suspicious fire in West Frankfort Wednesday afternoon.
  • Wednesday, February 15 2012 5:37 PM EST2012-02-15 22:37:44 GMT
    A Marion man was found guilty of sexual assault charges.
  • Wednesday, February 15 2012 4:48 PM EST2012-02-15 21:48:36 GMT
    ENERGY, IL (KFVS) - The living conditions are improving for thousands of people in public housing across Southern Illinois.
  • Wednesday, February 15 2012 4:00 PM EST2012-02-15 21:00:38 GMT
    A lawyer for Rod Blagojevich says he hopes to walk through the gates of whatever prison he'll report to next month without facing a gauntlet of cameras.
  • Wednesday, February 15 2012 1:44 PM EST2012-02-15 18:44:01 GMT
    Gov. Pat Quinn has named a former state representative as director of the Illinois Department of Agriculture.
  • Wednesday, February 15 2012 11:58 AM EST2012-02-15 16:58:05 GMT
    On Valentine's Day, Paul Wallace wasn't focused on giving his wife chocolates or flowers. The southwestern Illinois man gave her best friend a kidney instead.
  • Wednesday, February 15 2012 11:55 AM EST2012-02-15 16:55:56 GMT
    The host of the History Channel's "How the States Got their Shapes" will address a Springfield convention Thursday.
  • Wednesday, February 15 2012 9:29 AM EST2012-02-15 14:29:10 GMT
    A Cairo man says he's finally getting the help he needs to get to medical care. And it's not costing him, or his family a dime.
  • Wednesday, February 15 2012 5:34 AM EST2012-02-15 10:34:40 GMT
    Spray Flex Seal on that leak or tear and instantly fix it, but Does it Work?
  • Wednesday, February 15 2012 5:23 AM EST2012-02-15 10:23:07 GMT
    Good Morning Today is Wednesday, February 15 Well it looks like it is going to be a cloudy and rainy day in the Heartland. But there is some good news; the recent cold temperatures are a thing of the
  • Wednesday, February 15 2012 3:44 AM EST2012-02-15 08:44:50 GMT
    Detective Scott Phelps with the SEMO Cyber Crimes Task Force lays out the latest ways scammers are using legitimate web sites/offers to try and steal your information and your money.
  • Tuesday, February 14 2012 7:06 PM EST2012-02-15 00:06:53 GMT
    The Carterville Police Department is investigating allegations of theft from the school district.
  • Tuesday, February 14 2012 3:19 PM EST2012-02-14 20:19:49 GMT
    Illinois officials say the state stands to lose $900 million in federal funding for highways if a Republican-led transportation bill passes in the House this week. The changes could also jeopardize critical long-term investment needed to maintain Chicago's transit system, the second largest in the nation.
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