Carbondale News

Rachel Bunner has declared her candidacy to fill the post of circuit clerk for Logan County.

Brad Cole is currently serving his second term as Mayor of the City of Carbondale .

Police arrested a Carbondale man for armed robbery in two separate cases. Kristopher Cash, 20, was taken into custody for robberies in the South Thompson area and at a business in the 2100 block of South Illinois Avenue.

Jackson County families wake up Sunday morning to damaged mailboxes and automobiles.

The doors at the first H1N1 flu clinic in Jackson County closed around five Friday night.

As some Carbondale residents take extra precautions to be safe at home, police are stepping up efforts to reduce crime.

Jonathan Braga, 24, Montgomery, was placed on supervision for one year and fined $1,075 for DUI.

Carbondale, Ill. -- Southern Illinois guard Ryan Hare has been kicked off the team a month after being suspended while facing battery and felony trespassing charges.

One of the biggest party weekends of the year in Carbondale coincides with the most family-oriented event at the university.

Visitation will be held today for an SIUC student who died from injuries suffered in a car accident Monday.

Carbondale Police are investigating an armed robbery in the 500 block of South Logan Street.

One man is dead and another injured after a traffic accident in rural Makanda. The accident happened around 4:30 Monday afternoon on Giant City Road just south of Touch of Nature Road.

A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on October 19, 2009, Raymond D. WOOLEY , a/k/a "Dub," age 25, and Travis L. WOOLEY , a/k/a "T-Low," age 22, both of Carbondale, Illinois, entered pleas of guilty to conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine.

Three unoccupied mobile homes were illegally set ablaze in a trailer park outside Carbondale Sunday morning and burned until firefighters were called and doused the flames in the early evening, according to neighborhood residents.

Changing the way legislative districts are drawn has been likened to asking lawmakers to do surgery on themselves.

A former University of Wisconsin basketball recruit has pleaded guilty to burglarizing dorm rooms.

Dr. James Krcik is a physician who is delighted to be practicing medicine back in his hometown.

Southern Illinois University students spoke out again against state cuts to the Monetary Award Program Monday.

Strip Tease, Not "Strip Sleaze" The first time I heard the name " Chip and Dale" it referred to cartoon chipmunks.

Illinois college students will stop getting grants through the state's Monetary Award Program at the end of the semester unless lawmakers come up with a new revenue source.