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Middle School Hoops: HMS take regional title over MarionJan 17, 2022 10:00 pm - The Harrisburg Middle School girls' basketball team capped off a perfect regular season (22-0) with a 43-40 regional championship win over Marion and will now take part ...
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Do Dems face a 1994-style anti-crime, racialized backlash?Jan 17, 2022 12:00 am - House Speaker Chris Welch marked his one-year anniversary as his chamber's top leader with a series of news media interviews last week. One of the questions I asked was ...
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Prep Hoops: Eldorado holds off Du Quoin at Arrowhead ClassicJan 16, 2022 10:00 pm - Traijon Smith had about as good of a look as a shooter can ask for. The Du Quoin senior guard pulled up, uncontested, from the left elbow with about 4 seconds to play i...
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Du Quoin boys basketball: Roller coaster season continues for the IndiansJan 16, 2022 12:00 am - The Du Quoin boys basketball team's season has been like a fun park ride - winning its first four games at the Tip-Off Classic then losing its next two before winning th...
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Pinckneyville girls basketball: Panthers go 2-2 at Benton tournamentJan 16, 2022 12:00 am - Vienna 38; Lady Panthers 25 Coach Alan Engelhardt: "We guarded them really well in the first half but just couldn't put the basketball in the basket. (Emma) Rush is an ...
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Teacher and staff absences cause Du Quoin schools to close on FridayJan 16, 2022 12:00 am - A rash of COVID cases among teachers and staff in Du Quoin Unit District 300 has resulted in the district closing the schools on Friday and calling it an emergency day. ...
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New COVID contact tracing plan rolling out in Southern 7 health departmentJan 16, 2022 12:00 am - Southern Seven Health Department has started the process to move to the Illinois Department of Public Health's new centralized COVID-19 Contact Tracing process that goes...
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Honor Flight 8 set : Next veterans trip to D.C. is on June 7Jan 16, 2022 12:00 am - SOUTHERN ILLINOIS - Veterans honor Flight of Southern Illinois will conduct its next flight on June 7. The eighth flight since it was founded in 2016, Veterans Honor Fli...
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Saline County briefsJan 16, 2022 12:00 am - Alarming rise in local influenza cases According to the Walgreens Flu Index, the market area of Paducah, Cape Girardeau and Harrisburg are ninth on the list of most flu-...
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Illinois records pandemic high of more than 200,000 COVID cases; Saline County positivity rate higher than state averageJan 16, 2022 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Department of Public Health said Friday that the state had recorded 201,428 new cases of COVID-19 over the previous week, a 57% increase over ...