Breese News

Maricela Boseman, 43, 1518 E. 12th St., was cited at 8:47 a.m. Wednesday at Third and Carroll streets on a complaint of driving 50 mph in a 30-mph zone.

The funeral for a Germantown soldier killed in Afghanistan has been scheduled for Saturday in Germantown.

On June 19, a roadside bomb exploded in the dusty reaches of Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Mourners lined the streets en route from MidAmerica Airport to Germantown to honor their fallen soldier, Illinois National Guard Staff Sgt.

Services will be this weekend for a southern Illinois soldier killed last week in Afghanistan.

Illinois State Police have closed the eastbound lanes of Interstate 64 near O'Fallon, Illinois due to a wrong-way accident involving four vehicles.

A National Guard soldier from Germantown was killed in Afghanistan Friday when a bomb exploded into a vehicle he was in, the Illinois Army National Guard announced Saturday.

Community Link in Breese will be left without funding and more than 400 developmentally disabled adults and children will be left without the organization's services if the state cuts funding, its director said Wednesday.

One person suffered minor injuries when an antique tractor went off the trailer it was being loaded onto Sunday afternoon in Aviston.

Adam Fields and Jamie Boeckmann celebrated their marriage in a traditional Clinton County way.

For a pair of area seniors, Saturday's state track finals on the campus of Eastern Illinois University culminated with the ultimate award - a state title.

A group of Cinton County young people are mourning the passing of three young men who were part of a close knit group; an outgoing football hero with a promising future, a shy carpenter and a hard-working, community college student.

Where is this tattoo / piercing? How long have you had it? 6 Months How many tats do you have? 2 How many piercings do you have? 1 What's the story behind this tattoo / piercing? I got this tattoo for my mother who fought cancer for several years before it overtook her and she died.

A funeral driver left a township cemetery damaged. Evelyn Fedele was visiting her mother's grave in Fletcher Cemetery, at Breese and St.

Sometimes you have to get out of the classroom to learn, which is why four McKendree University students and a professor have headed to the Amazon rainforest.

I remember being in school and the teacher asking, "How many planets are there in the solar system?" The answer was always the same, nine.

I've never been a huge fan of Marvel comics. Let me start with that. As a kid growing up in Breese, Illinois I would take my meager earnings to the local soda shop and buy the latest issue of Superboy and the Legion of Super-heroes or The New Teen Titans , Batman , anything that had to do with that universe.

There are special ultrasounds used during pregnancies that create life-like pictures for physicians.

A condition called polycystic ovarian syndrome affects many women. Dr. Anne Doll-Pollard, an ob-gyn at St.

George M. Vaughn, a senior from Ford Heights studying architecture, shows Michael Nolan of Mursphysboro the diagonal cut he made using the table saw during the beginning woodworking class in the Craft Shop on ...